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I HATE lighting!!

2003-04-15, 11:54 AM #1

DogSRoOL

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Posts: 6,227

There seems to be a link between massassi and me. When massassi is down, I get dumber! [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

I'm trying to make a DL cog similar to one of GBK's. But nothing happens. What's wrong with this?

Code:

symbols
Message      Startup                                                          
Message      Pulse                                                            

Thing        FocalObject                                                      
Thing        Ghost0                                                           
Thing        Ghost1                                                           
Thing        Ghost2                                                           
Thing        Ghost3                                                           
Thing        Ghost4                                                           
Thing        Ghost5                                                           
Thing        Ghost6                                                           
Thing        Ghost7                                                           
Thing        Ghost8                                                           
Thing        Ghost9                                                           
Thing        Light0                             local                         
Thing        Light1                             local                         
Thing        Light2                             local                         
Thing        Light3                             local                         
Thing        Light4                             local                         
Thing        Light5                             local                         
Thing        Light6                             local                         
Thing        Light7                             local                         
Thing        Light8                             local                         
Thing        Light9                             local                         
Flex         LightVal0                                                        
Flex         LightVal1                                                        
Flex         LightVal2                                                        
Flex         LightVal3                                                        
Flex         LightVal4                                                        
Flex         LightVal5                                                        
Flex         LightVal6                                                        
Flex         LightVal7                                                        
Flex         LightVal8                                                        
Flex         LightVal9                                                        
Int          i                                  local                         
Template     GhostThing=Ghost                                                 

end                                                                           

# ===================================================

code
Startup:
	for(i=0; i<=9; i=i+1)
	{
		SetThingLight(Ghost0, 0, 0);
	}
	SetPulse(0.05);
	Return;

Pulse:
	for(i=0; i<=9; i=i+1)
	{
		Light0 = CreateThingAtPos(GhostThing, GetThingSector(FocalObject),
                         GetThingPos(Ghost0), '0 0 0');
		SetThingFlags(Light0, 0x1);
		SetThingLight(Light0, LightVal0, 0);
	}
	Return;
# .................................................

end

I'm eventually change this so I can use it with cameras (via UserX messages), but not until I get the basics down.

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[This message has been edited by DogSRoOL (edited April 19, 2003).]

[This message has been edited by DogSRoOL (edited April 19, 2003).]

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2003-04-15, 1:37 PM #2

DogSRoOL

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Posts: 6,227

um...

The cog suddenly decided to work...
The only thing I did was reload templates, and that doesn't make sense because I didn't use any templates except for Ghost.

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2003-04-15, 2:40 PM #3

GBK

Posts: 10,562

Well, you have one big problem that I see; you create the lights, but you dont destroy them... At 50 ghost creations a second, youll hit the thinglimit in less than 3 seconds.

Code:

Pulse:
for(I=0;I<=9;I=I+1) {
	If(Light0 != -1) {
		Destroything(Light0);
		Light0 = -1;
					}

	//Rest of your code here...

				}

That should fix it...

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Createthingatpos(GBK, 0, '0 0 0', '0 0 0');

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2003-04-15, 5:47 PM #4

DogSRoOL

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Posts: 6,227

What the...?
I coulda swore I had that...
And all my lights still work?!
hmm...

Also, doesn't destroying a thing automatically make it -1?
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[This message has been edited by DogSRoOL (edited April 15, 2003).]

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2003-04-15, 6:17 PM #5

Trige

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Posts: 1,222

What exactly does that cog do? Does it make it appear as though a lighted area gets brighter then darker again?

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2003-04-15, 8:12 PM #6

DogSRoOL

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It repeatedly destroys and creates dynamic lights to keep them in the same sector as the player, or in this case the camera. Unfortunately, there is no "SetThingSector" command that anyone seems to know of, although I often see rarely used commands in some of LEC's cogs, such as "SetThingPulse".

And btw, GBK, when I added the code to remove the old lights, the game crashed!

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[This message has been edited by DogSRoOL (edited April 17, 2003).]

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2003-04-16, 2:13 AM #7

GBK

Posts: 10,562

Are you using all of the ghosts?

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Createthingatpos(GBK, 0, '0 0 0', '0 0 0');

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2003-04-16, 8:42 AM #8

DogSRoOL

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Yep. In fact, I told it to check if the light existed, but it still crashed.

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[This message has been edited by DogSRoOL (edited April 17, 2003).]

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2003-04-17, 4:54 PM #9

DogSRoOL

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Posts: 6,227

Oops. I guess I'm not using all the ghosts, but the reason it was crashing is because the value for "lightX" was less than -1! I set all of them to -1 in the symbols section, and it worked. So I added the stuff for cameras and it worked, but now it's not working again. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/rolleyes.gif]

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One of these days......

Code:

# The Dog Series - Cog Script
# Written by Brandon Bull (a.k.a. DogSRoOL)
#
# AdvancedLighting.COG - [04/15/2003]
#
# Controls dynamic lighting aspects. 
# You may not use this cog without permission.
# Get Permission at:
# spuds_61520@yahoo.com
# --- or ---
# strings_of_gold@hotmail.com
#

symbols
Message      Startup                                                          
Message      Pulse                                                            
Message      User0                                                            

Thing        FocalObject                                                      
Thing        Ghost0                                                           
Thing        Ghost1                                                           
Thing        Ghost2                                                           
Thing        Ghost3                                                           
Thing        Ghost4                                                           
Thing        Ghost5                                                           
Thing        Ghost6                                                           
Thing        Ghost7                                                           
Thing        Ghost8                                                           
Thing        Ghost9                                                           
Thing        Light0=-1                          local                         
Thing        Light1=-1                          local                         
Thing        Light2=-1                          local                         
Thing        Light3=-1                          local                         
Thing        Light4=-1                          local                         
Thing        Light5=-1                          local                         
Thing        Light6=-1                          local                         
Thing        Light7=-1                          local                         
Thing        Light8=-1                          local                         
Thing        Light9=-1                          local                         
Flex         LightVal0                                                        
Flex         LightVal1                                                        
Flex         LightVal2                                                        
Flex         LightVal3                                                        
Flex         LightVal4                                                        
Flex         LightVal5                                                        
Flex         LightVal6                                                        
Flex         LightVal7                                                        
Flex         LightVal8                                                        
Flex         LightVal9                                                        
Int          i                                  local                         
Template     GhostThing=Ghost                                                 

end                                                                           

# ========================================================================================

code
Startup:
	for(i=0; i<=9; i=i+1)
	{
		if(Ghost0 > -1) SetThingLight(Ghost0, 0, 0);
	}
	SetPulse(0.05);
	Return;

Pulse:
	for(i=0; i<=9; i=i+1)
	{
		if(Ghost0 < 0) return;	// return if a ghost item is not used.
		if(Light0 > -1) { DestroyThing(Light0);  Light0 = -1; }
		Light0 = CreateThingAtPos(GhostThing, GetThingSector(FocalObject),
                      GetThingPos(Ghost0), '0 0 0');
		PrintInt(Light0);
		SetThingFlags(Light0, 0x1);
		SetThingLight(Light0, LightVal0, 0);
	}
	Return;

User0:
	if((FocalObject == -1) && (GetParam(0) != -1))
	{
		SetPulse(0.05);
		FocalObject = GetParam(0);
	}
	if(GetParam(0) == -1)  // prevents FocalObject from becoming -1 in the middle of a pulse message.  NAGT!
	{
		SetPulse(0);
		Sleep(0.05);
	}
	FocalObject = GetParam(0);
	if(FocalObject == -2) FocalObject = GetLocalPlayerThing();
	Return;
# ........................................................................................

end

Thanx.

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May the forks be with you.
There is a great disturbance in my shorts...

[This message has been edited by DogSRoOL (edited April 19, 2003).]

Cat loaf, meet mouseloaf.
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