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How Do You Calculate moveTo() Time?

by practicing01 · in Torque 2D Beginner · 04/24/2013 (8:26 am) · 2 replies

Can someone please provide a function to calculate the time an object is supposed to take to reach its moveTo() destination? I'd like to schedule a function that deletes the object if it doesn't reach the destination in time. I tried the following code but got an assert (I tried remaking the engine's method and it didn't work).

//%dest & %position set before this
%speed=10;
%linvel=Vector2Sub(%dest,%position);
%dist=Vector2Normalize(%linvel)*%speed;
%time=(%dist/%speed)*1000;
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Torque Owner Richard Ranft
Roostertail Games
#1
04/24/2013 (9:46 pm)
Try catching onMoveToComplete() and if the object is not at its destination schedule clean-up.

Torque Owner practicing01
MourningDoveSoft
#2
04/25/2013 (4:45 am)
I do have the onmovetocomplete() callback set for the class of the object I'm dealing with. It's not being called for whatever reason, that's why I want to manually schedule a deletion (I have the deletion within onmovetocomplete and it's not being called).

Edit: Made one that works:
%speed=10;//units per second (here we set to 10 per second)
%time=((Vector2Distance(%position,%destination)/%speed)*1000)+1000;//+1 second to allow time for onmovetocomplete