How To Use the Steering Wheel

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Overview

 * Before beginning this How To it is recommended that you learn How To Build and Publish a World and How To Use Action Blocks and Actions.


 * The Steering Wheel block allows you to easily define how a vehicle drives, steers, and even jumps on a single block! In order to build a vehicle with the Steering Wheel you'll need a few basic Building Blocks, Action Blocks and some basic scripting knowledge.
 * First you'll need a chassis. Then you'll need to attach wheels to the chassis. And then finally attach a Steering Wheel block to the vehicle and choose the preset you prefer and start driving!
 * Let's get started...

Step-by-Step Instructions

 * 1) Build a new world, preferably Blockster Bay.  [[Image:How to Use the Steering Wheel 3.PNG|thumb|right|Step 7. Attached four wheels to the chassis.]]
 * 2) Open the Blocks tab of the Build Panel. [[Image:How to Use the Steering Wheel 4.PNG|thumb|right|Step 8. Attached the Steering Wheel to the chassis and opened the Action Panel.]]
 * 3) *See the Step 2 image on the right.
 * 4) Drag a cube out from the Blocks tab of the Build Panel and onto the ground.
 * 5) With the cube selected drag the orange Stretch Tool to stretch the cube a couple clicks longer in one horizontal direction to form a short rectangle. This rectangle will act as the car's chassis.
 * 6) *If not already selected, tap on the cube to select it.
 * 7) *In order to scale the cube horizontally you may have to rotate the camera to be slightly above the cube by tapping and dragging the ground.
 * 8) Open the Action Blocks tab on the Build Panel.
 * 9) Drag a wheel from the Build Panel and place it on the ground next to the cube.
 * 10) With the wheel selected drag the blue Move Tool to move the wheel so that the axle touches the elongated cube.
 * 11) *The white arrow on top of the wheel points in the direction the wheel will move in (the white arrow is only visible when the wheel is selected).
 * 12) *You may have to drag the green Rotate Tool to rotate the wheel to be flush with the chassis and pointed in the right direction.
 * 13) *See the Step 7 image on the right.
 * 14) Repeat Steps 6 and 7 for the remaining three wheels.
 * 15) *For the purposes of this How To the wheels should be placed on the four corners of the chassis as you would expect to see on a real car.
 * 16) *However, the Steering Wheel supports any number of wheels, tank treads or a combination of the two! Feel free to go crazy!
 * 17) Drag the Steering Wheel block from the Build Panel and place it onto the top of the chassis.
 * 18) With the Steering Wheel selected drag the Action Panel out so that it is fully visible.
 * 19) *The Action Panel is a small grey tab on the left-most side of the screen. However, it is only visible when a block is selected.
 * 20) *Notice that the Steering Wheel is already programmed with a Control mode, a Drive mode, a Speed adjuster and a steering Angle adjuster.
 * 21) *You can cycle through Control and Drive modes by tapping on their icons. Visit the Steering Wheel Action Blocks page to see all the different options.
 * 22) When you're happy with your vehicle presets press Play in the upper left corner and start driving!
 * 23) *We encourage you to experiment with different types of vehicles and share your results!

Tips and Tricks

 * Keep in mind when using the Steering Wheel block that it is no longer necessary to program each individual wheel.
 * The Steering Wheel block ignores the direction indicators on individual wheels. In other words it's totally okay if one of the wheels on your vehicle is technically pointed backwards; the Steering Wheel will know what to do!
 * Think about the balance of your vehicle and how weight may affect its performance.
 * Use the new Mass action to make individual blocks heavier or lighter and help tune your vehicle for ultimate performance!