Question: I would like to throw Func_statics around

[Bikerdude]

I asked SH about doing this but he wasn't able to get it working, so does anyone else know how to shoot a piece of furniture from one please to another, if a func_shooter entity that will enable me to to do this..?

[Shadowhide]

I said you already,you need a costum projectile entity with model you want instead arrows

[Mortem Desino]

I'm not entirely certain what you're trying to accomplish. Is this a poltergeist effect you're shooting for (OOoOOoooooOOOoohhh...a floating ChaaAAaaair...) ?

 

A func_shooter might work, but collisions don't work the same for projectiles as they do static models.

 

You could use an invisible func_mover that you control via scripts (moveToPosition) or via NURBS curves. And then bind the model to aforementioned func_mover. But even in that case, collisions with player and with other moveables won't behave the same (though they wouldn't necessarily have to).

 

You could also give the furniture a collision mesh and make it a moveable. You can use forcefields, then, to toss the moveable around.

[Bikerdude]

Yeah an angry ghost to through something at the player or just throw to give the play a scare..

 

hmm all sound's complicated, how about a very fast moving func_mover inside a nodraw tube that pushes a projectile (a chair) out the end of the tube like a gun? could the move speed be made fast enought to eject the chair..? - I shall make a test map!

[Flanders]

You could use an invisible func_mover that you control via scripts (moveToPosition) or via NURBS curves. And then bind the model to aforementioned func_mover. But even in that case, collisions with player and with other moveables won't behave the same (though they wouldn't necessarily have to).

IIRC this is a good method. I read somewhere that when the object is at the end of the spline it continues with the same inertia, so you can use it as a launch pod so to speak. Don't know exactly how.

[Bikerdude]

ah I didnt know that and that is just what the doctor ordered, dont know if I have the time to learn how to set it up though..

[Tels]

You could also simply give a movable chair a velocity via a script function:

 

// Sets the current linear velocity of this entity in units per second. The linear velocity of
// a physics object is a vector that defines the translation of the center of mass in units per second.
scriptEvent	 void    setLinearVelocity( vector velocity );

// Sets the current angular velocity of this entity. The angular velocity of
// a physics object is a vector that passes through the center of mass. The
// direction of this vector defines the axis of rotation and the magnitude
// defines the rate of rotation about the axis in radians per second.
scriptEvent	 void    setAngularVelocity( vector velocity );

 

If you make that a small amount and let the script continously add it for say 20 frames, the moveable will speed up and then fly away:

 

float i = 0;
vector velocity = (0,0,0);
while (i < 20)
 {
 i += 1;
 $mychair.SetLinearVelocity( velocity);
 velocity_x += 0.1;
 velocity_y += 0.1;
 velocity_yz+= 0.05;
 }

 

Although it looks like that is difficult to control. (Adding a small impulse instead of setting the vector would definitely be a better script event but we don'thave that yet. Please file a tracker entry so it doesn't get forgotten)

[Bikerdude]

Hmm thats above my head in the time I have left Tels, but have filed a tracker entry.

 

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[Garreth]

A movable, and a door entity throwing and punching, i have a few of those

It is the easyest, but you will have to build em from scratch.