in editor lua, check if "game" started?

[Andy Gilbert]

Hi, im just playing with lua inside the editor and as for a basic example, if i write a script that uses the update function to rotate an object on an axis it will do this instantly regardless if the "game" is running or not, how can i check if the game is running in the editor?

 

Thanks

Andy

[Rick]

One way to do this is shown in my Pi-Main http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/files/file/72-pi-main-v01/ This basically creates a variable in the main script that you can check against in your model scripts. I'm sure there are other ways to do this also. Perhaps checking if fw is nil or not as I seem to recall that variable doesn't get created until the main game script runs?

 

 

But I do agree it would have been nice if there were 2 separate Updates() that we could work with or something along that line to separate from design mode vs run-time mode.

[Andy Gilbert]

Thanks Rick, will give that a go. Just thinking ahead, what happens once i press "play" and i have scripted objects to move around? I guess when i press stop they wont return to thier original state?

 

Thanks

Andy

[Rick]

They should return to their original state once you stop.