On the horizon

[Rick]

Thought I'd give a post on some objects I have in the works. I'm thinking in terms of objects that provide real functionality and not just simple models objects. Here is a list of what I'm currently working on. I'm also always on the lookout for more useful objects to make complete games with.

 

3rd Person Camera Object

- Give it a target and this will provide 3rd person controls for you on that target.

- You can rotate around the target & rotate the object itself

- You can provide an offset of where you want the camera to point on the object

- You can set min/max zoom and sencetivities

 

Character Object

- Set the model setting with a gmf file to make it use that model

- Creates a controller and allows you to set the height/radius of the controller

- Allows you to set the collision type of the controller

- Setting to place a name tag over the model (comes with offset settings that can include dynamic height)

 

Character Controls Object

- Give this a Character object as it's target and this will allow you to set controls to move that Character.

- Gives settings for keyboard movement of Forward, Backward, Strafe Left, Strafe Right, Rotate Left, Rotate Right, Duck, & Jump

 

With the 3 objects above it makes it a snap to get a moving character with 3rd person camera controls in your scene with zero programming required.

 

Future Objects

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AICharacter Object - Target to a Character object to give it AI

Day/Night Object - Allows a bunch of settings to give a day/night cycle to your atmosphere

Inventory Object - Gives a configurable inventory system to a Character object

 

 

I'd be open to hearing people's thoughts or ideas for other objects that would help them in making their game.

[Canardia]

Sounds similar like GameLib. I'm planning also to make certain functions work with Lua scripts, but leave the C++ version still there as an option. If you make your scripts public, I guess they can be copied to a community project like GameLib, which is also free for all LE users?

[Rick]

Yeah I guess it is kind of like GameLib, but pure lua based. My goal is to provide objects that require no programming and you just plug and play into the editor.

[Canardia]

Yeah, that's how Lua entities should work. I think at some point there needs to be some standardization how plug-in Lua scripts should work, and what global named objects or other entities they are looking for. One standardization there is already: fw=GetGlobalObject("framewerk"), although it might be renamed into framework soon (due to general definitions of the term "framework", and naming conventions in LE).

[Rick]

The standard I'm going with right now is prefixing my objects with Pi, which is the first 2 characters of my last name. It's kind of like a brand. Since anyone can create objects there needs to be a way to know what object is from what creator. Like a namespace if you will.

[gordonramp]

I'd be grateful if you or someone could post some simple fpcontroller code that works with the Lua Engine..

[Canardia]

I posted a standalone version of fpscontroller.lua long time ago:

http://leadwerks.com/werkspace/index.php?/topic/73-run-sbx-scene-outside-the-editor/page__view__findpost__p__659

[macklebee]

I'd be grateful if you or someone could post some simple fpcontroller code that works with the Lua Engine..

 

?whats wrong with the one that comes with LE?

[gordonramp]

Well, I've spent quite a bit of time trying to get it going outside of the Editor, without success. 'Exception_access_violation' seems to be the most common error.

 

Lumooja,

Yes, I spent some time on that bit of code but as you said in that post, there were errors.

[macklebee]

run it in debug mode and hopefully it will give more info than just that generic error

[gordonramp]

I'll dig out the code and start a new thread.