Tank visual improvements

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frogger35
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Tank visual improvements

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Recently I have been playing with tanks and I've noticed that the tread doesn't rotate forwards and backwards when just spinning in circles(just holding a or d). Is there any way to allow for that to happen?

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Looking at the base game graphic files (data\base\graphics\entity\tank) one can see that the tank is rendered as one solid object, i.e. unlike trains the threads are pre-baked. So, making them rotate independently of each other would require a major change to the internals of car (tanks are cars internally) rendering for an effect that most people probably wouldn't notice. So i wouldn't place bets on that happening any time soon.

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Though the devs might be able to fake it by just rendering the tracks in slightly different positions for each rotation.

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