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by Stefan Beffy Moises · 12/08/2003 (8:52 am) · 61 comments

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* A modified PathCamera object that enables you to move
* static shapes (DTS files) along (camera) paths
* This will only work in Release 1.2 or HEAD since it is based on
* the new PathCamera stuff!!!
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Here is how to add a pathed shape to your game:

Add the .cc and .h file to engine/game, add them to your project and recompile the engine...
copy pathShape.cs to your "example/demo/server/scripts/" folder e.g.
and exec it in "game.cs" as usually...
then add the path to your shape in that file:
datablock PathShapeData(LoopingShape)
{
   emap = true;
   // put path to your shape here!!
   shapefile = "~/data/shapes/foo/bar.dts";
   mode = "";
};

You can add a PathShape like this from script e.g.:
// --> beffy: create pathed shape start ! :)
%pathshape = new PathShape() {
    dataBlock = LoopingShape;
    // set position to whatever suits your needs...
    position = "102.46 155.34 98.22";
};
// give it a path to follow:
%pathshape.followPath("MissionGroup/Scenes/TerrainEngineScene/Path");
// cleanup
MissionCleanup.add( %pathshape );
// <-- beffy: create pathed shape end ! :)
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Torque Owner Chris Mooney
Texel Games
#41
11/08/2006 (1:17 pm)

Torque Owner Roshan Kuriyan
Default Studio Name
#42
12/14/2006 (8:48 pm)
Hai Ramen

I tried to get into that link.Since i am a TSE owner i was not able to get it.
I too want the player to set on to the pathshape.
Any help

Torque Owner Cinder Games
#43
12/14/2006 (11:40 pm)
@roshan
E-mail me, i'll email you the files i modified. Perhaps it will be of use.

Torque Owner Roshan Kuriyan
Default Studio Name
#44
12/18/2006 (12:20 am)
Hai Ramen

Got your resource and it working fine in TSE.
Porting ur code in TSE is not a big deal.Any how if u want it pls let me know.

THANKS A LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Torque 3D Owner Chad Kilgore
#45
07/23/2007 (11:54 am)
Using TGE 1.5.2, I am having two problems. (A) After Ash's collision implementation, no collision is occurring (note that this collision is with a flyingVehicle and not a player). (B) The PathShape loses its geometry (or at least disappears) after a short period of time.

Any possible solutions? Thanks.

Torque 3D Owner Mattias Oldenborg
#46
07/27/2007 (4:50 am)
How would you go about adding a path to an already existing object? I tried to make it easy for me and simply add a pre-existing datablock instead of LoopingShape to a new PathShape but this only resulted in the cryptic error message: "Object '393' is not a member of the 'GameBaseData' data block class", which I really have no idea what it means.

Associate Stefan Beffy Moises
#47
07/30/2007 (5:19 am)
@Chad: besides Ash's changes above, you also need a castRay() implementation for the PathShape... e.g. copy it over from player.cc:
bool PathShape::castRay(const Point3F &start, const Point3F &end, RayInfo* info)
{

   // Collide against bounding box. Need at least this for the editor.
   F32 st,et,fst = 0,fet = 1;
   F32 *bmin = &mObjBox.min.x;
   F32 *bmax = &mObjBox.max.x;
   F32 const *si = &start.x;
   F32 const *ei = &end.x;

   for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
      if (*si < *ei) {
         if (*si > *bmax || *ei < *bmin)
            return false;
         F32 di = *ei - *si;
         st = (*si < *bmin)? (*bmin - *si) / di: 0;
         et = (*ei > *bmax)? (*bmax - *si) / di: 1;
      }
      else {
         if (*ei > *bmax || *si < *bmin)
            return false;
         F32 di = *ei - *si;
         st = (*si > *bmax)? (*bmax - *si) / di: 0;
         et = (*ei < *bmin)? (*bmin - *si) / di: 1;
      }
      if (st > fst) fst = st;
      if (et < fet) fet = et;
      if (fet < fst)
         return false;
      bmin++; bmax++;
      si++; ei++;
   }

   info->normal = start - end;
   info->normal.normalizeSafe();
   getTransform().mulV( info->normal );

   info->t = fst;
   info->object = this;
   info->point.interpolate(start,end,fst);
   info->material = 0;
   return true;
}
No idea why the shape would disappear though...

@Matthias: I have no idea what you are talking about, sorry...

Torque 3D Owner Mattias Oldenborg
#48
07/31/2007 (1:57 am)
@Stefan: No worries, I hardly have any idea myself :) Or more to the point, I had not looked through the code very thoroughly when writing the last post. The problem I guess, is that we've done quite a rewrite of shapeBase here and that is the reason why something breaks. So I'm probably on my own in figuring out how to get this rolling.

Torque 3D Owner Chad Kilgore
#49
07/31/2007 (7:59 am)
Is there anyway that I could mount/attach an ParticleEmitter to a PathShape object? If so, how?

Torque 3D Owner Mattias Oldenborg
#50
08/01/2007 (1:41 am)
@Chad: I don't know about mounting but as for my problem (above) the solution was to copy-paste code from pathShape to my custom shapeBase class, in effect making it a pathShape object. This should probably work for particleEmitter to.

Torque 3D Owner Mattias Oldenborg
#51
08/01/2007 (1:53 am)
I now have another problem here. My unit is animating along the spline path but the movement around the nodes ain't very smooth, see video for an example. http://skickafilen.se/downloadnow.jsp;jsessionid=EFA6F274EF942F3270E7CF282B691807 How do you insert a link here by the way?

So I'm wondering how you go about "straightening out" the curve to avoid these twitches that occur on every node.

Associate Stefan Beffy Moises
#52
08/13/2007 (1:11 pm)
@Matthias: that link doesn't work...

Torque Owner Bullitt Sesariza
#53
01/03/2008 (8:43 am)
Hi, I'm trying to add this resource as some kind of a movable obstacle that can hit a player. When I tried it and placed the player at the Path Shape's path, it passes through and doesn't trigger collision at all. How can I fix this and can call the player's onCollision()?

BTW, thanks a lot for the resource. A great one indeed.

EDIT: I also need the shape to toggle a trigger. But it seems like it can't do that also.

Torque Owner Cinder Games
#54
01/08/2008 (1:14 am)
Anyone figure out how to get shadows working with the pathshape?

::edit::

alright, i figured it out. was rather simple

Torque Owner Gustavo Boni
#55
02/15/2008 (5:53 am)
@Maurina, could you also share your engine source code modifications? I just found the scripts changes.

Thanks

Associate Edward F. Maurina III
Roaming Gamer LLC
#56
02/15/2008 (10:46 am)
@Gustavo,

Hi. Any code changes I made are listed above.

Please note. This resource is a little old, so some code may not match exactly.

Also note, if you are looking for rideable moving platforms you might try this instead: HERE.

Hall Of Worlds - For Gamers
EdM|GPGT pictures and plan describing the resource

Torque Owner Gustavo Boni
#57
02/15/2008 (11:07 am)
@Edward,

Just noticed that, its all there. Thank you very much.

Torque Owner Jermaine Morgan
#58
05/23/2008 (11:05 am)
is this working for 1.5.2?

Torque Owner Thomas Hogarth
Default Studio Name
#59
09/23/2008 (9:23 am)
Hi

Just to let people know I added support for pathShape to set off triggers, but I did my post over here

www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=29206#556782

Hope it comes in helpful,

Cheers Ramen and all you other guys. You've saved me a serious amount of time :)

Tom

Dante
#60
02/12/2009 (8:21 am)
could you upload the latest pathshape files for TGEA 1.7.2.. Thanks
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