Change values on character moves

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1. Tuesday, 22. May 2018, 16:33 · 9 years ago#1

   Hi all,

   I wold like to update some value according to my character moves or position, how can I achieve this?

   
   

   10X! 
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3. Tuesday, 22. May 2018, 20:10 · 9 years ago#2

   Not sure what you are trying to achieve here.

   
   

   You can add actions directly to character animation frames or there's the option called "start action after animation is finished" and you can link some actions there.

   
   

   There's no event handler for walking as far as i know tho you can get the information via this line of code

   game.CurrentCharacter.State

   
   

   Where 2 is standing & 3 is walking. So you can create your own with the main loop.
   

   function functionName()
       --your code here
   end
   
   registerEventHandler("mainLoop", "functionName")

   
   

   More info here https://www.visionaire-studio.com/luadocs/#commands
4. Wednesday, 23. May 2018, 09:51 · 9 years ago#3

   Thank you @K4e.

   In general the link you provided is very useful.

   
   

   I am trying to achieve a fixed text that show the player "depth water level". 

   That level is changes according to the character position.

   
   

   Any way, I try your suggestion .

   Thanks again.
5. Wednesday, 23. May 2018, 12:29 · 9 years ago#4

   Please try to include more details when asking for help mate. Your initial post didn't really provide much information on what you wanted other than something to do with values & movement.

   
   

   Are you talking about a percentage value between 2 points or values determined by range values? i.e: if character is > 100 and <= 200 then character is x distance down? Or do you just want to display the actual y position of the character? If it's the latter then you could use the Lua mainLoop function to update & store the y position of the character inside of a value. You can use the same method as the playtime thing for displaying the value.
   
6. Wednesday, 23. May 2018, 13:13 · 9 years ago#5

   Yes you are right, I was try to relieve the reader from too much info, next time I explain my self butter.

   
   

   As a solution I was using this Lua code combined with main loop:

   
   

   char = game:getLink(VGameCurrentCharacter)

   pos = char:getPoint(VCharacterPosition)

   level = -1*(255 + (pos.x / 1000))

   level = round(level,2)

   Values["water_level"].String =tostring(level)

   
   

   
   

   
   
7. Wednesday, 23. May 2018, 13:28 · 9 years ago#6

   I don't understand what your calculations are doing, then again, math has never been something I've been very good with.

   
   

   So the character swims horizontally in this scene as opposed to vertically down?

   
   

   x = horizontal

   y = vertical

   
   

   Anyway... quick note: you could shorten the script by a few lines if you wanted. There's really no need to declare variables for everything & there's no need to use the old getObject method either.

   level = -1 * (255 + (game.CurrentCharacter.Position.x / 1000) )
   level = round(level, 2)
   Values["water_level"].String = tostring(level)

   
   
8. Wednesday, 23. May 2018, 14:15 · 9 years ago#7

   Good note, I will make the replace in my code.

   You are the best...!
9. Wednesday, 23. May 2018, 14:21 · 9 years ago#8

   You can also use action areas I think.