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Elevator, How do I do it?

by Timothy Volpe · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 02/04/2010 (10:01 pm) · 6 replies

I know it has been asked hundreds of times, and I did search the site, but all I found was out-of-date topics with broken links. I looked for a really long time and I need to know two things:

-How to make an elevaotr in TGEA 1.8.1
-(This doesn't fit the forum, but its not worth 2 topics) How to make an elevator in TGE 1.3

If anyone has any good resources or links, please share.

Thanks
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Torque Owner Brian -Cybore- Smith
Hostile Ai
#1
02/04/2010 (10:28 pm)
Maybe this will help you out.

Platforms players can ride

Torque Owner Andrea Fraboni
C4DGames
#2
02/05/2010 (1:25 pm)
Elevetor via scripting :

www.torquepowered.com/community/blogs/view/13283


www.torquepowered.com/community/resources/view/13284

^_^

Torque Owner Timothy Volpe
#3
02/05/2010 (8:12 pm)
Those are good, but what I'm looking for is how make the elevator preform micro-teleports so it appears to be moving up, but its just teleporting so small you can't see it. But, I don't know how to do this, or make the play move smoothly with it.

Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
T3D Steering Committee
#4
02/08/2010 (11:27 am)
Quote:micro-teleports ... smoothly
Sorry to be a wet blanket, but that's not going to play nice, especially not in scripts. I recommend the platform resource Brian suggested - that will let your lifts smoothly move with players on them. Something like this has to be done engine-side if you're not willing to use teleporting lifts like Chris's resource.

Torque 3D Owner Cai Yundong
#5
02/09/2010 (5:46 am)
http://www.torquepowered.com/community/resources/view/17149

Updated 1.8.1 version

Torque Owner ChrisG
#6
02/09/2010 (11:03 pm)
My script uses teleporting and can be modified to move small amounts: www.torquepowered.com/community/resources/view/13284

However, as Daniel said it won't be smooth, it'll end up looking choppy. You're probably best to bite the bullet, get into the C++ code and use the "Moving platforms" resource, or change your level design so you don't have to see the elevator moving.