time dependent movement

[Johannes Burock]

want tio create a moving object, it should be a pendulum, which is frequently changing the direction of the swing, but not the direction of the entity itself...

 

normaly i create this with a func_pendulum and a func_rotating but with this the entity is rotating as well...

 

so is it in anyway possible to give the direction of the angle or shake spawnarg a time dependent parameter ( like sin(t) ) or is this a bigger skripting thing ? or a easyer one and i think it is not so easy ?

[Fidcal]

If you are binding the pendulum to the rotator and want the pendulum object to rename orientated the same way throughout then also give the pendulum:

 

BindOrientated 0

 

See:

 

http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=BindOrientated

 

Hope that does what you want?

[Johannes Burock]

If you are binding the pendulum to the rotator and want the pendulum object to rename orientated the same way throughout then also give the pendulum:

 

BindOrientated 0

 

See:

 

http://modetwo.net/d...=BindOrientated

 

Hope that does what you want?

 

ähhh no . the problem is hard to explain, in german as well, but with my language knowledge...thats not possible in english XD.

so i bring the problem to one single point:

 

in func pendulum i can change the angle spawnarg to set the swing direction. is it possible to give the angle spawnarc a thing like sin(t), so that it is a changing swing direction over time? same problem with the func shaking and the shake spawnarg...

Edited June 11, 2011 by Johannes Burock

[Tels]

ähhh no . the problem is hard to explain, in german as well, but with my language knowledge...thats not possible in english XD.

so i bring the problem to one single point:

 

in func pendulum i can change the angle spawnarg to set the swing direction. is it possible to give the angle spawnarc a thing like sin(t), so that it is a changing swing direction over time? same problem with the func shaking and the shake spawnarg...

 

No, I don't think so. But it would be possible to either add code support for this, or write a script that does this (adjust the position of the entity in each frame to the proper position/angle).

[Fidcal]

I just tested this and it does work even without BindOriented - at least with models. I used a ladder and a cog. The ladder swung back and forth and also gradually turned its angle of swing. Just bind the pendulum to a rotator.

[Johannes Burock]

I just tested this and it does work even without BindOriented - at least with models. I used a ladder and a cog. The ladder swung back and forth and also gradually turned its angle of swing. Just bind the pendulum to a rotator.

 

thats the way i normaly do...but the modell is now rotating as well, and that shouldnt

[Fidcal]

But what I originally said works perfectly.

 

bind the pendulum to the rotator.

give the pendulum bindOrientated 0

 

The pendulum then travels around the rotator but stays orientated the same way.

 

Are you sure you didn't use 1 instead of 0? 1 is the default and the pendulum turns and its swing turns too. But if you 0 then it stays pointing the same way and swings the same way, eg, always north/south.

 

Or do you mean you want it to face the same way the swing to rotate? If so then bind a small invisible pendulum to the rotator and the visible pendulum bind to that but with bindOrientated 0.

[Fidcal]

No wait. I see more clearly now what you mean. I'm not sure that can be done. I'll try a few more tricks....

[Fidcal]

OK, I've found a way:

 

bind a pendulum to a rotator as normal

bind another rotator to the pendulum

 

The second rotator becomes the visible pendulum. It stays pointing the same way but its swing rotates.

 

Now I expected the second rotator to have the same speed as the first rotator but negative to cancel it out. That is what I was trying to do. But in fact it went twice the speed so I gave it exactly the same positive speed and it works!

[Johannes Burock]

OK, I've found a way:

 

bind a pendulum to a rotator as normal

bind another rotator to the pendulum

 

The second rotator becomes the visible pendulum. It stays pointing the same way but its swing rotates.

 

Now I expected the second rotator to have the same speed as the first rotator but negative to cancel it out. That is what I was trying to do. But in fact it went twice the speed so I gave it exactly the same positive speed and it works!

 

argh, i also had this idea, but i wanted to bind the modell to a second "negative"rotator and that didnt run (i think because of binding to 2 things)...but i missed the step to change the modell to a func_rotator itself .

Thanks for this little punch Fidcal^^