I'm still working on getting an actor, used in place of a projectile, to explode when it hits a wall(I am using an actor as projectile so that it can be killed by laser bolts). The problem is that I can't find when the actor is touching a wall.

I have tried creating the explosion when the actor's speed is less than some number, but that won't work because the actor may hit a wall and not slow down that much and because the actor might slow down and not be hitting a wall.

I also tried firing a projectile in front of the actor-proj and measuring the distance between it's creation and removed positions. That didn't work because the distance didn't always give me reasonable numbers(?) and since the projectiles have to have a collide of 1 to hit the wall, they will hit the target that the actor-proj is aiming for.

Anyone have something I can try?

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[This message has been edited by SaberMaster (edited September 25, 2001).]

you could try attatching a projectile to the actor , that is just a dummy projectile , but that dummy projectile , is like a ussaul projectile and under explsion you can put another template so it will be called when it's hits a wall , a cog attatched to that could then send a message back to the actor , saying it has touched a wall.

Sorry for the dodgey explaining , i'm rushing to go out , bye.

That sounds like a good idea, and fairly simple...

Attach a dummy thing (a ghost even?), and when IT hits the wall, send a trigger to your actor cog to explode it...

Simple, use a touched message in the actor cog that calls the explosion routine.

Thanks, Siefer, I'll try that.

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Fiction must be more realistic than truth or no one will believe it.

Np, Emon ... a touched message will not be called when it touches a wall, rather when it touches another thing.

Works fine. Thanks again.

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Fiction must be more realistic than truth or no one will believe it.