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onPlayerStopped

by Tim Reinermann · in Torque 3D Professional · 10/08/2009 (3:36 pm) · 5 replies

Hi everyone,

I need to be informed, when my Player stops (and perhaups starts) walking. I want to change some advanced camera settings in these cases.

I was thinking about a Callback to Console from Players onProcessTick(Move* move), if move is NULL or NullMove. But this would give me callback each tick the player isn't moving.

Has anyone an idea how this could be done in a smart way?

regards
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Torque Owner Ryan Mick
Red Witch Entertainment
#1
10/08/2009 (4:13 pm)
There should still be a OnReachedDestination callback, would that work?

Associate Manoel Neto
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#2
10/08/2009 (5:09 pm)
A player being controlled by a client will always receive a move, even if you're not moving. You might want to check the player's velocity and the content of the move (to check if the player is inputting directions or not).

Torque 3D Owner Tim Reinermann
#3
10/08/2009 (5:20 pm)
Hi

thx for your replies :)

@Ryan
I think OnReachedDestination is for AI Controlled movement

@Manoel
yes, thats the problem. I would get a onStopped on every tick the player isn't moving. I could do a flag in player that callback was fired and then do not fire it again. When player moves again I could reset that flag, so the callback gets fired nexttime the player stops.

I was kind of hoping there is a better solution out there ...

Torque Owner Ryan Mick
Red Witch Entertainment
#4
10/08/2009 (6:16 pm)
DOH!, yep need to read the post better.

Torque 3D Owner Tim Reinermann
#5
10/11/2009 (7:52 pm)
I ended up in Implementing an own Object derived from Player. It analyses the move struct to find out if the player is moving or not, and triggers the callbacks.