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RTS Prototype Movement Question

by Chris Sargent · in Torque 3D Professional · 02/20/2010 (7:15 pm) · 2 replies

Just a preliminary statement I am learning how to use Torquescript and following the material in the docs.

Ok I was following along the RTS Tutorial. I'm using beta 1.1. Everything was going well until I got to the movement part. The instructions say to remove:

// If the terrain object was found in the scan
if( %scanTarg )
{
   // spawn a new object at the intersection point
   %obj = new TSStatic()
   {
      position = getWords(%scanTarg, 1, 3);
      shapeName = "art/shapes/building/orcburrow.dts";
      scale = "0.5 0.5 0.5";
   };

   // Add the new object to the MissionCleanup group
   MissionCleanup.add(%obj);
}


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Torque Owner Chris Sargent
Glorious Software
#1
02/20/2010 (7:22 pm)
The next step said to replace the above code with:

if( %scanTarg )
{
   ClientGroup.getObject(0).player.setMoveDestination( getWords(%scanTarg, 1, 3) );
}

When I do this, the right mouse button does nothing when I have the cursor enabled. I get this error in the console log which, as I am still learning does not really help me much in terms of finding the problem.

38: Cannot re-declar object [MainMenuAppLogo].
scripts/gui/playGui.cs Line: 88 - syntax error
>>>Advanced script error report. Line 88.
>>>Some error context, with ## on sides of error halt:
// only care about terrain objects#
%searchMasks = $TypeMasks::TerrainObjectType;#
#
//search!#
%scanTarg = ContainerRayCast( %start, %end, %searchMasks );#
if(%scanTarg)#
{#
ClientGroup.getObject(0).player.setMoveDestination(getWords(%scanTArg, 1, 3) );#
}#
#
#
#
>>> Error report complete

so i'm clueless nothing new about that though! Any help would be appreciated.

Torque Owner Matt Jolly
Stingray Games
#2
02/20/2010 (11:10 pm)
Try this:
function PlayGui::onRightMouseDown(%this, %pos, %start, %ray)
{
   	// find end of search vector
   	%ray = VectorScale(%ray, 2000);
  	%end = VectorAdd(%start, %ray);
   
   	// only care about terrain objects
   	%searchMasks = $TypeMasks::TerrainObjectType;

   	// search!
   	%scanTarg = ContainerRayCast( %start, %end, %searchMasks );
   
   	// If the terrain object was found in the scan
   	if( %scanTarg )
   	{
   	   	%ai = LocalClientConnection.player;
   	   	if(%ai>0)
   	   	      %ai.setMoveDestination(getWords(%scanTarg,1,3));
   	}
}