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Unit movement question

by Christian · in RTS Starter Kit · 07/29/2007 (9:53 am) · 6 replies

Just a simple movement question. When using commands such as .setMoveDestination and .setMoveGoal for units their animations don't work correctly, they kind of float in a jerk motion to their destination, the animations work correctly on the right click move, just not when typing in the commands. Has anyone had this problem before?
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Torque 3D Owner Novack
CyberianSoftware
#1
07/29/2007 (12:54 pm)
Yes, I just checked that. It seems that is something related to sendMoveEvent, that activates the proper animation for movement on the client.

Depending on what you want to do, you can use commandToServer('IssueMove', %x, %y, %z); instead.

Torque Owner Christian
#2
07/29/2007 (2:46 pm)
Ooh that did the trick Novack! The moving has to be done in script so I made a new function out of that one.

function gogo(%noob, %x, %y, %z)
{
      %center = VectorScale(%center, 1);
      %obj = %noob;
      %dest = %x SPC %y SPC %z;
      %offset = VectorSub(%obj.getPosition(), %center);
      %dest = VectorAdd(%dest, %offset);
      %obj.clearAim();
      %obj.resourceType = "";
      %obj.TCLoc = "";
      %obj.resourcePos = "";
      %obj.status = "Idle";
      %obj.curGoal = "";
      %obj.setMoveGoal(%dest);
}

gogo(%noob, 222, 333, 222);
to move single bots from script.

Torque 3D Owner Novack
CyberianSoftware
#3
07/29/2007 (6:13 pm)
Good!
Why exactly cant you use the onother one?

Torque Owner Christian
#4
07/29/2007 (6:21 pm)
The other one relies on you selecting a unit in the game. Mine all have to be done through script without selecting units. I still don't understand why the animation doesn't work properly when using setMoveGoal or setMoveDestination, but for now this works.

Torque 3D Owner Novack
CyberianSoftware
#5
07/29/2007 (10:15 pm)
Mhh gotcha (I think).
Apparently, beacuse of how setMoveDestination works, a clearAim() must be done. When we use the mouse, commandToServer('IssueMove', %x, %y, %z) send this %obj.clearAim(); just before %obj.setMoveGoal(%dest);

So, to use setMoveGoal from a script you just need to add %this.clearAim(); to the setMoveGoal function:

function Player::setMoveGoal(%this, %dest)
{
   [b]%this.clearAim();[/b]
   %this.curGoal = %dest;
   
   // Kick off the movement.
   %this.onReachDestination(%this.getPosition());
}
So, using
%noob.setMoveGoal("222 333 222");
You dont need the patch-function :)

Torque Owner Christian
#6
07/30/2007 (6:44 am)
Thank you, that saves a lot of trouble for all the movement (that other function would be a pain with vectors & such).