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Set/getPositionX/Y problems

by Drew -Gaiiden- Sikora · in Torque Game Builder · 08/03/2005 (1:09 pm) · 4 replies

Even tho these four functions are in the T2D Reference, none of them seem to work :( I keep getting warnings in the console like
Unknown command setPositionX. Object (42521) fxAnimatedSprite2D -> fxSceneObject2D -> SimObject
this kinda sucks since it makes the code for moving an object
%this.dropTarget.setPosition(getWord(%this.dropTarget.getPosition(), 0) - $BLOCK_SIZE SPC getWord(%this.dropTarget.getPosition(), 1));
yuck. There should really be a movePosition and movePositionX/Y command so you don't have to reference the object's current position
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Torque Owner Jason Swearingen
#1
08/03/2005 (1:47 pm)
Uh, couldnt you just make a torquescript function that does incremental moves yourself?

Torque 3D Owner Matthew Langley
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#2
08/03/2005 (4:55 pm) 
function fxSceneObject2D::movePosition(%this, %x, %y)
{
   %pos = %this.getPosition();
   %posX = getWord(%pos, 0);
   %posY = getWord(%pos, 1);

   %posX += %x;
   %posY += %y;
 
   %this.setPosition(%posX SPC %posY);
}

function fxSceneObject2D::movePositionX(%this, %x)
{
   %pos = %this.getPosition();
   %posX = getWord(%pos, 0);
   %posY = getWord(%pos, 1);

   %posX += %x;
 
   %this.setPosition(%posX SPC %posY);
}

function fxSceneObject2D::movePositionY(%this, %y)
{
   %pos = %this.getPosition();
   %posX = getWord(%pos, 0);
   %posY = getWord(%pos, 1);

   %posY += %y;
 
   %this.setPosition(%posX SPC %posY);
}

Torque Owner Drew -Gaiiden- Sikora
#3
08/03/2005 (5:44 pm)
Quote:
Uh, couldnt you just make a torquescript function that does incremental moves yourself?
Well sure, but I wasn't asking for that. I just wanted to know whether these functions did indeed not work or if it was just me being stupid and using them wrong somehow. So I'm assuming they don't work and even though they're in the reference they're still slotted for the next release.

Thx for those move functions anyways tho Matt. 'preciate it.

Torque Owner Tim Doty
#4
08/03/2005 (7:22 pm)
The (get|set)Position(X|Y) commands work just fine here. In your original message you show the error, but not how you are calling it. For example, this works for me:

$MySprite.setPositionX(10);