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Change Waysystem

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  • #1, by raule 14 years ago Quote
    Hello,

    i change the waysystem in my scene via action areas. i have to do it for scaling the character right.
    it already works fine. the only thing is, that the character stops when the Waysystem changes.

    is there a possiblity that the character wont stop`?

    thx for any answer!

    raul
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  • #2, by Alex 14 years ago Quote
    I don't think so. The character is stopped because the way points of the waysystem are needed for the path finding algorithm.
  • #3, by raule 14 years ago Quote
    yeah i thought so.
    is there a better way to solve my problem?

    i have different sizes of the character on same y-choords

    thx and thx
  • #4, by afrlme 14 years ago Quote
    it's better to only set up 2 scale sizes than multiple ones...

    did you see what Mowren posted in another thread about adding the actual scaling points on the outside of your way borders? he wrote a few other tips too & explained how the scaling system works.

    http://www.visionaire-studio.net/forum/thread/way-point-scal...

    near bottom of the thread.
  • #5, by raule 14 years ago Quote
    yeah usually i do it like this but in this case i have different sizes of the character on same y-choords.

    If this is my scene the character is bigger on position 1 than on position 2
    Position 1 is still foreground (balcony), position 2 is background.

  • #6, by afrlme 14 years ago Quote
    hmm I was musing over the idea of using lua to save the character destination into a variable with just before you change the way system & then using said variable with the VCharacterDestination to set the character walking to that destination again.

    I don't know if it would work but...

    first you need to create a definition script which we can use to add 2 simple functions one for setting the current destination & the other for setting it going again.

    local char_dest -- create a blank variable that we can use for both of the functions

-- let's create the function that stores the character destination
function saveDest()
 char_dest = game:getLink(VGameCurrentCharacter):getPoint(VCharacterDestination)
end

-- let's create the function that resets character destination
function getDest()
 game:getLink(VGameCurrentCharacter):setValue(VCharacterDestination, {x = char_dest.x, y = char_dest.y})
end


    to use this:
    1. just before you add the change way system action part, create an execute a script action part & add...
    saveDest()

    2. then after the way system as been changed add another execute a script action part & add...
    getDest()


    I haven't tested this code, but it should probably work & it says that CharacterDestination is scriptable, so I assume it should set the character walking again but hmm I'm not sure it will execute whatever action you told it to do on x object or character... I think we would need to add some additional code to check if destination is an object or character etc & whether you told it to execute an action on it but the code should resume the character walking.

    We also have a choice of using these scriptable commands too:
    CharacterDestination -- general x,y destination
CharacterDestinationObject -- if character destination is an object or character
GameDestinationCommand -- the command you used on the object, character
GameDestinationEvent -- a normal mouse event such as left/right click or hold etc
GameDestinationItem -- if you used an item on the object or character
GameDestinationItemPicked -- same as above but is for if you have used a dragged item
  • #7, by raule 14 years ago Quote
    looks pretty good right now!

    i will test it with some other actions then just "goto" and give some feedback if its working as well for other situations.

    thank you very much!!
  • #8, by raule 14 years ago Quote
    hi there,

    yes its like u said.
    its working with just "walking" to an object. but if i execute an specific command like "take" it doesn't work.
    so i have to add the function (CharacterDestinationObject , aso.) into the lua script?

    greetings
  • #9, by afrlme 14 years ago Quote
    yeah but I think the best method would be to use an if query to determine if the character should be walking to an object/character & then save the destination object & the command to be used & if not then default back to destination only method.

    hmm I think you could probably query "VGameDestinationEvent" & "VGameDestinationCommand" to check what is supposed to happen when the user reaches the destination & then use that to determine what you need to save to the saveDest function & what should be returned in the getDest function.

    I'll have a wee think on it & get back to you later on the day or the week sometime.
  • #10, by raule 14 years ago Quote
    thank you very much!