Q: I have a question about the player speed. Is there any way to make a trigger with a script setting the speed to 0, and another trigger resetting the speed to 100 ?

A: Now that we have moved the player mechanics to a LUA script, you can view the "gameplayercontrol.lua" script and look for the command "SetGamePlayerControlBasespeed(x)". This controls the players base speed at all times, and the script uses it often. You can override the above script with your own logic to freeze the player in their tracks, and then restore the previous behavior as needed. Remember to backup your custom version of this script as when the Steam auto-update happens, it may erase your changes with the latest from the build.

Hey looks like I wasnt too far off. Gave him the same information over on the discord about the SetGamePlayerControlBasespeed(x) command and/or instead using Freezing commands to prevent the movement. Though he wants a mouse-look (I believe gun fire ability as well). So player controls may indeed need to be altered here.

Is this true for most of the scripts or unique to only a few? If common, is it possible to create a child script with unique edits and a call to the original? Something like gameplayercontrol-child.lua, set a flag in another file to use the -child version, then add an include call at the top of gameplayercontrol-child.lua; thus preserving unique settings while ensuring engine-necessary files are updating promptly.

Sorry, I've been knee-deep in fixing abandoned WordPress websites lately. I've probably got tunnel vision.

Whenever a new update of Game Guru comes out, sometimes there are updates to the existing scripts (player controls, global.lua and the AI ones mostly). When you get these updates from Steam they will overwrite the scripts and you will lose any changes you might have made with them.

What I do is I make a back up folder that has the originally scripts in them and another folder within that has all my modified versions of those same scripts.



I noticed some include scripts are being used now for parts of character AI. The scripts seem to borrow from each other. But that's mostly to ease up the work load of editing many scripts for small changes related to AI.

While I'm no expert, any modifications engraved inside of the player controls would be hard to isolate from the rest of the code. So I don't know if an include would work in that manner. I see there is a third person player folder and script? Wondering if there were plans to isolate all third person functions off?

AI: Biter Behavior Example:

SetGamePlayerControlTopspeed( value )

(if you need to see how to use this look in the pickuppables.lua script where I use it to cap the player speed depending on how much is being carried. I also disable jumping when carrying objects so you can see how that is done as well)