I need a cog (for MOTS) that, when a ship is "activated", the view switches to that ship, and your keyboard movements make the ship move. If anyone can give me one or walk me through the process that would be great! thanks.

[This message has been edited by Darkmere (edited September 03, 2001).]

I don't think it's possible in JK since you can't get the playeraction like in mots.

-Raze

Its gotta be possible....


When you activate, you just delete the ship, and change the player to the ship 3do... I just dont know how to write cogs....

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It's possible without having to do it the cheap change the player way , I did it.

Yes, it's possible. I working on some code like that(but it's for a projectile). I don't know anything about linking cogs with levels, but do something like this.

Here's a general idea of what to do:

#=================#
activated:
player=GetSourceRef();
ship=<define your ship>
Setcamerafocus(0, ship);
Setcamerafocus(1, ship);
SetPulse(0.01); #Or use looping timers

Return;
#=================#
pulse:

dir = VectorAdd(GetThingLVec(player), GetThingLVec(ship));
SetThingLook(ship, dir);
SetThingVel(ship, VectorScale(GetThingLVec(ship), .8));
Setthingvel(player, vectorset(0, 0, (vectorz(getthingvel(player)))));
#Limit the player's movement on the x and y axes

Return;
#=================#
Removed:

Setpulse(0);
Setcamerafocus(0, player);
Setcamerafocus(1, player);

Return;
#=========================#

I'm not sure what you would use instead of removed, but anyway, the removed message above will stop the ship piloting. Also, this will only let you stear the ship side-to-side - you won't be able to move up and down(or slide) without making the code a lot more complicated.

Hope that helps you.


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[This message has been edited by SaberMaster (edited September 01, 2001).]

I've seen vehicle cog questions atleast 10 times in the last half a year, and never once seen the answer....

Seifer, any insight?

No, no.. us mere mortals can never hope to understand the workings of higher minds. We can only watch as the answers are dangled in front of us, only to be taken away with a laugh.

Yeh.... it gets annoying after a while... I usually only get 10% of my questions answered here....

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I walked away from the grave
I will never be the same
I gave my life away"

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_-=MaTRiX=-_

You could try to get the player's thrust in the cog, and then set the thrust of the ship to the same thing. Tha player would have to move, though, so it wouldn't work on a cliff or something ("weee! i didn't know piloting was so..." *splat*)

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I made a vehicle control cog for MotS with four speeds, turning, horn, weapons, damage and engine failure. To do it for JK in the same way would be impossible as I used playeraction a lot to power it. If you look back through the screenshots of the day here (it's a couple of months ago) you should be able to see a shot of it, but the thread at TACC it was originally in has gone now because of the forum upgrade, and I'm not releasing the code until The New Empire 3 is finished.

Geez I did it in JK, it is possible !

I never said it wasn't possible in JK. It probably is, but just not in the same way as I did it in MotS.

I did it! I did it!

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How u do it JK?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

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