I have both the original FPS Creator and FPS Creator X10 and I remember that you can press the T key and pick up objects like boxes and crates and carry them around. Pressing the mouse button chucks them. I'm working on a game that requires the use of this feature, but it doesn't seem to be implemented. Pressing T doesn't do anything. Is this feature no longer available? Or is there another way to make this work?

looks like it'll be possible in the next update (coming in couple weeks)

in some form at least

We have chosen not to implement this feature for Reloaded (for now). It is not really used in games these days, except through gravity gun style manipulation. We have decided to go for an inventory style approach as our first 'carry around objects' implementation. I dare say with enough LUA commands you could create your own 'carry object' feature

That's disappointing. I saw a game made with FPS Creator X10 a while back that did some really cool things with moving objects around. I like the idea of having the ability to pick up a crate and stack it onto another crate in order to get up to a higher place that you can't get to otherwise. Or having the ability to grab an item that is acting as a support and causing a collapse or some other chain reaction using physics. Just chucking items around is cool as well. Like picking up an explosive barrel and throwing it down a hall and then blasting it. There are a lot of possibilities.



As far as having an inventory, that's great as well, but a completely separate thing really.

We do like the idea of push, pull and lift though to allow things like stacking crates to reach a high point, so 'carrying' might make a come-back once more urgent matters have been addressed. However, if the community agree these built-in functions should come before inventory systems, then we'll be happy to oblige!

To be clear, I am making no assumptions about the community's overall needs or priority. I'm just trying to make a game level and bringing up issues as they come. I think inventory systems are great as well. It just would have been nice to have the carry object thing by 1.007 since I want to have it in my contest entry. But I'm sure you have a list a mile long of wish items. I guess my biggest issue with this is that it was already in previous versions and would have thought any basic features in the previous version would have been a simple drop-in. Maybe that's a bad assumption.

This is music to my ears

Tattie, inventory and being able to move things around and interact with them are 2 completely different things. Why would you want to eliminate the one? They don't have to be mutually exclusive.

Well from what lee said means it will be later down the line so it wont eliminate anything im am just glad to see inventory

OK, I misunderstood. Yeah, having both eventually will be great. I definitely love inventory systems.

Yea both will be good as i have a few ideas that would use this also but inventory unlocks more possibility

as in the next update you can control entity placement via scripts i see no issue in scripting it yourself for 1 crate so long as we can tell which way the player is facing anyway, will have to wait and see how much control we get over the player

I too would like to see the ability to move and stack things, makes for puzzles in the game. If you're going for a "First Person Simulator" then that's got to be implemented somewhere down the line.

I agree that while not needed asap it should be done eventually. Source engine games are always just that much more fun in VR because of the simulated interaction caused by some puzzles that require you to find, pickup and place something (such as a battery etc)