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How to slow speed in Pathing?

by Vlad I · in Torque Game Builder · 10/17/2011 (4:10 am) · 4 replies

How to slow speed in Pathing? It only has constant speed.
I want to be able to slow the speed for my animation to be played properly.
I have a spider animation mounted on Path, it crawls on a table and then at the edge of the table it crawls beneath it.

Also when I play the animation with Follow Mode Restart it goes node by node 0,1,2,3,4 and when it loops back to node 0 the animation doesnt get restarted from frame 0 it is simply plays on from where its last frame was on node 4.
How to reset it to frame 0 when it is back to node 0?

Thanks
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Vlad I
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#1
10/23/2011 (2:24 am)
Bump...
Still need help on this. Any suggestion?

Simon Almqvist Pettersson
Dohi Sweden
#2
10/23/2011 (11:37 pm)
There are callbacks for when an object following a path has reached a node or reached the last node. So you could put a line like this,
%object.playAnimation(%animationName, false, 0, false);
inside the onPathFinished callback.

function t2dPath::onPathFinished(%this, %object, %node)
{
// %this is the path object.
// %object is the object following the path.
// %node is the end node of the path
}

function t2dPath::onReachNode(%this, %object, %node)
{
// %this is the path object.
// %object is the object following the path.
// %node is the node just reached
}



Vlad I
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#3
10/24/2011 (6:32 am)
Simon you are a legend!!! Damn I didnt notice callbacks at the bottom of the documentaion here
http://tdn.garagegames.com/wiki/TGB/Reference:_t2dPath

Thanks man!
here is my function for random speed on path if it helps to anyone

function Path01::onReachNode(%this, %object, %node)
{
if(%node $= 3)
{
SpiderPath01.setSpeed(Spider01, getRandom(10, 20));
}
}

Vlad I
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#4
10/24/2011 (9:30 am)
Yet I'm still having troubles. When I change the speed, the object (Spider01) automatically appears on start node with new speed while I want it to change the speed on node 5 and continue with new speed.
Seems like the effect only takes place on restart. Here is the code:

function SpiderFunction::onLevelLoaded(%this, %scenegraph)
{
SpiderPath01.attachObject(Spider01, 10, -1, 1, 2, "wrap", -1, true);
}

function Path01::onReachNode(%this, %object, %node)
{
if(%node $= 5)
{
SpiderPath01.setSpeed(Spider01, 2);
}
}
Any thoughts on that?