[Video player]

Dumb question probably... but couldnt you make your video into an animated texture or something ?(adding sound to it)(or a series of linked animated textures) ...I say texture since GIFs dont seem to work in Leadwerks 3 ..its not seeing it..

 

this is a actually good solution for short animations. But it can never replace a real video player with audio

[How to change an external objects properties]

Thats because 'self' in that function does not exist.

 

This totally makes sense, so what do i replace self with in order for the function to work as intended ?

[How to change an external objects properties]

'Script.Material1' is not a material. For 'entity:SetMaterial()' to work, you have to either load a material using 'Material:Load()' or create a material using Material:Create().

 

Thank you for replying to my problem. I tried out loading the material in the manner you suggested, however it still does not work. Leadwerks produce the following error message when I call the function from another script :

 

attempt to index global 'self' (a nil value)

 

in the function :

 

function test123()
mymaterial = Material:Load("/path/to/texture/texturename.mat")
self.entity.SetMaterial(mymaterial)
end

 

The script works, if I use it within the script attached to the object :

 

function Script:Collision(entity, position, normal, speed)
if (entity:GetKeyValue("name") == "Player") then
mymaterial = Material:Load("/path/to/texture/texturename.mat")
self.entity:SetMaterial(mymaterial)
end

[How to change an external objects properties]

Pivots are not collidable, use an invisible csg box instead.

 

 

Thank you for your help. This information was very useful to me, now I am getting error messages. However the original problem persists as I cant use self.entity to change an external object. What do i replace the self.entity with, in order to get the following function to work, when it is called from another script ?

 

Script.Material1 = "" --path
function test123()
self.entity:SetMaterial(self.Material1)
end

 

to be a little more clear "self" must be referring to the object attached to the script or the script itself. But if you don't want to refer to the object itself but a different object, what do you use ? I Imagen it would be something like

 

box2.entity:SetMaterial(box2.Material1) 

 

however this is not working

[How to change an external objects properties]

You are colliding with the entity that is pressumably the box? If so do the following:

entity.script:YourFunction()

 

Thank you for replying to my question. I am colliding with a pivot, not the box itself. Please excuse me for my badly formulated post, english is not my first language. I will do my best to try and formulate myself more clearly.

 

Below is a picture of my scene

 

 

Below is the (not working) code for the pivot right in front of the player

 

function Script:Collision(entity, position, normal, speed)
if (entity:GetKeyValue("name") == "Player") then
CallFunction("test123");
end
end

 

below is the code for box1

Script.Material1 = "" --path
function test123()
self.entity:SetMaterial(self.Material1)
end

 

I want the material on box1 to change when I collide with the pivot.

 

Please note that the code I posted, probably is wrong, and is only here to demonstrate what i wish to achieve

[How to change an external objects properties]

Firstly I am sorry if this question has been answered over 100 times before. I have searched the forum without finding an usable answer, on how to do this in Lua. I have tried out code, I thought might work or be related without getting the result i wanted.

 

I have a pivot.When the player collides with the pivot, I want to change the texture on a different object lets call it box1

 

the collision and change of texture is not a problem. The problem is how I change the box's texture from within the script of the pivot

 

below is an example of an failed attempt at calling a function within a diffrent script. This script would be attached to the pivot

 

function Script:Collision(entity, position, normal, speed)
if (entity:GetKeyValue("name") == "Player") then
// the function test123 is located inside the script attached to box1
CallFunction("test123");
end
end

[Video player]

I really wish LETheora would work. Currently it's not. I know small game designers should not focus on cut scenes and movies. But I think this is diffrent. The ability to play video inside leadwerks would be great because it would allow stuff like talking pictures, old television sets, shock effects where texture suddenly change into some scary movie clip and a whole lot of other cool stuff.

[LETheora - Script Error]

Granted this only works now with the '2014-09 - Archive' or '2014-08 - Archive'... It appears Josh has changed something in the engine that causes a c++ runtime error now whenever this library is used.

 

Thank you for replying to my question, I greatly appreciate it.

 

I guess it wont work with the version I am running then. I disabled Lua sandboxing and in debug mode im getting

 

invalid ELF header

on line 221, as before

 

too bad it can't run, it looked really cool in the video presented

[LETheora - Script Error]

Greetings

 

I am a newbie when it comes to the leadwerks engine and lua in general.

 

I am trying to get LETheora to play videos in my game

 

I assigned an ogg file to the script, but when i try to run it i get the following error message :

 

Script Error

 

attempt to index global 'package' (a nil value)

 

Line 221

 

The error occours in the following function

 

function TheoraVideo:Init()
if self.initialized == 0 then
assert(package.loadlib("LETheora.dll", "luaopen_theoravideo"))()
theoravideo.init()
self.initialized = 1
end

 

Please help