Actionmap

#1 In client/scripts/client.cs from memory. Im assuming you're using the vehicle resource?

#2 I checked out client/scripts/client.cs but there was not reference to actionmap

this is what was there:

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Torque Game Engine 
// Copyright (C) GarageGames.com, Inc.
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Server Admin Commands
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

function SAD(%password)
{
   if (%password !$= "")
      commandToServer('SAD', %password);
}

function SADSetPassword(%password)
{
   commandToServer('SADSetPassword', %password);
}


//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Misc server commands
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------

function clientCmdSyncClock(%time)
{
   // Time update from the server, this is only sent at the start of a mission
   // or when a client joins a game in progress.
}

#3 Are you working off the tutorial base? Below what you just posted should also be this...

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// ActionMap server commands
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------

function clientCmdPopActionMap()
{
   echo("Popping Player action map " );
   movemap.pop();
}

function clientCmdPushActionMap()
{
   echo("Pushing Player action map " );
   movemap.push();
}

#4 You're right I am using tutorial.base but funnily enough, the above client.cs file was copied from starter.racing.

I then call the client.cs file in init.cs

my client.cs file looks like this:

function clientCmdPopActionMap(%map)
{
         echo("Popping action map " @ %map);
         %map.pop();
}


function clientCmdPushActionMap(%map)
{
         echo("Pushing action map " @ %map);
         %map.push();
}

#5 Could you explain what the problem you're having is exactly?

All that function does is push a new actionmap which should be called something like vehicleDriverMap.cs, this enables you to have a set of different keybindings between the player & the vehicle controls.

#6 I've managed to get ride of the aformentioned error.

However, the actionmaps are not being popped and pushed because when I am in the vehicle the moveMap.bind commands are the ones in use.

eg. my player still tossess grenades from inside the car...

when I hit "e" instead of dismounting the car as is commanded through vehicleDrivermap the player tried to mount a vehicle again even though he is in one meaning the actionmap hasn't been changed.

plus i don't get the echos that i should recieve on popping and pushing the actionmaps

this is the function calling for the pop and push functions:

function onPlayerMount(%player,%obj,%vehicle,%node)
{
   CommandToClient(%obj.client, 'PopActionMap', moveMap);
   CommandToClient(%obj.client, 'PushActionMap', $Vehicle::moveMaps[%node]);

I cannot see why it won't work.

I appriciate u trying to help me figure this out by the way, Tim.

#7 Having searched the vehicle.cs file for where the onPlayerMount function is being called i failed to find one.

Could this be the problem or is there another place that it is being called outside the vehicle.cs file?

#8 It should be in two places:

This inside player.cs

function Armor::onMount(%this,%obj,%vehicle,%node)
{
   onPlayerMount(%this,%obj,%vehicle,%node);

      if(%col.mountable && %col.getMountNodeObject(%node) == 0)
      {
         %col.mountObject(%obj, %node);
         %obj.mVehicle = %col;
         %obj.client.setcontrolobject(%col);
         %col.mountObject(%obj,%seat);
      }
}

and this in vehicle.cs

function onPlayerMount(%player,%obj,%vehicle,%node)
{
   CommandToClient(%obj.client, 'PopActionMap', moveMap);
   CommandToClient(%obj.client, 'PushActionMap', $Vehicle::moveMaps[%node]);

   %obj.setTransform(%vehicle.getDataBlock().mountPointTransform[%node]);
   %obj.lastWeapon = %obj.getMountedImage($WeaponSlot);
   %obj.unmountImage($WeaponSlot);
   %obj.setActionThread(%vehicle.getDatablock().mountPose[%node],true,true);

   // Are we driving this vehicle?
   if (%node == 0)  {
      %obj.setControlObject(%vehicle);
   }
}

Also make sure vehicleDrivermap.cs is being executed from client/init.cs

#9 Is it not alright for the vehicledrivemap.cs to be executed from main.cs

the rest of the above i there but i don't have an init.cs file

from what i can see my main.cs file is that it is loading the same scripts.

#10 Yeah that's fine. The tutorial base is set up differently. I've never used it (I deleted mine). Are you using your own model or the buggy?

#11 I'm using the buggy