https://vimeo.com/178053915

I've been on holiday in my caravan for the past two weeks with no internet connection so I had a play around and came up with this nifty little (actually it's quite big) script.

The uninitiated may view this and say "so what', others may say "wow".

It is a work in progress and has got to the point that most of my scripts reach, i.e. I now want to re-write the whole thing to simplify some parts and make it more generic.

In addition, whilst developing this I have uncovered a few GG bugs and some other strange behaviour that I'll have to pass on to Lee when he gets back off holiday.

That's quite amazing,it would be good for puzzles and player house decorating.

i want this!!!!!!!!!!!!!! supercool

I want this!! When will it be released? Will it be free? Or will we have to buy it?

I'd so buy this honestly can be handy.

I'm not quite happy with it enough to put it in the store, as I said there are a few issues with GG that mean it doesn't work quite as well as I'd like and there are a few areas I would like to polish a bit.

When Lee gets back of holiday I'll email him about the, um, strange behaviour I've discovered (can't really call them all bugs yet as Lee may have a very good reason why they are there) and take it from there.

In the mean time a few teasers, entities can be picked up, rotated, and dropped. If you place an entity on top of another that is level (i.e. not rotated in x or z planes) in such a way that it won't topple off then it is 'stacked', this means that if you pick up the entity it is stacked on then they both move as one.

Any number of entities can be stacked and carried, I'd really like some way of reading the physics characteristics from within Lua and controlling the movement speed of the player based on the total 'weight' of the objects but that is probably a long way off.

Oh, and I'd like some way of 'throwing' objects, but again that would probably need some engine changes from Lee.

Question for the people interested in this script:

I have another set of scripts which allow the player to pick up and run around with 'lit' objects, i.e. torches or candles. These scripts currently are distinct but I was thinking that it might be useful to merge them into a more generic script, for example the player could start off with a tray, two candle sticks, pot of tea, plate, biscuits, cup and saucer. Then by carefully placing each item end up with a breakfast in bed style affair, complete with lit candles, which can then be picked up and carried upstairs (or in the lift if using my lift scripts) to be placed on the bedside table.

Am I over-thinking things her or would this be something people would be interested in having?

a torch script?
Moses put all these great stuffs on the store or where you want so we can buy them....holy god

Very cool AmenMoses .

Dave

Yeah, this:

https://vimeo.com/175301646

I'd just be happy to have a torch to carry around

Here you go, have a play around with these.

If you use different entities to the ones in the video you will have to tweak the Y offset constants.

The flame script should be attached to a flame decal, there are a few dotted around in the entity bank (why aren't all the decals in one place?) just pick the one that looks good and scale it to the right size, the scripts handle the positioning of the flames

Now this! This is cool!!

So many ways to use this for puzzles and general interaction.



-Wolf

Oh so nice.
How do you manage to turn it.
The one I was working on sticks to mouse. But I haven't fathomed out how to turn it yet.

That is so handy for using in my WIP.

Actually the rotation is where the GG 'bugs' are. For some reason 'x' rotation of an entity is not related to the 'x' axis in the game but 'z' rotation is. Also 'y' rotation is a bit weird as it seems to go from -90 .. 0 .. + 90 when reporting the value but 0-360 when setting it. Makes the math a wee bit difficult to say the least.

I'm going to have to ask Lee if it possible to make all the rotations the same and (possibly configurable with a command so existing scripts will still work) make them all 0-360 (or even make radian versions so I don't have to keep converting back and forth).

that looks awesome!!! Can't wait for it to reach the store!

This will be perfect in my adventure game, thanks.

So either I'm in a very giving mood or maybe the tremendous success of the British team in the Olympics has effected me or maybe I've just had too much to drink but here is the Lua script, for free.

It isn't 'finished' to the extent I would like and I reserve the right to polish the turd further and put it on the store at some later date but feel free to take it as is for whatever use you may have for it in your games. All I ask is 1) Credit me somewhere in your game credits ("Thanks to some bloke on the forums" or similar) and 2) Please don't stick it on the store and claim it as your own!

If you can't figure out how to use it or have any questions about how it works just post them on this thread.

Btw, if you want to say thank you and don't have them yet go buy my compasses from the store.

@AmenMoses thank you for the complex scripts and your generosity.

many thanks...

purchased your compasses many time ago..