Component runtime

[Alienhead]

Placing this code in my main.lua ( before my main loop ) works fine. 

But if I move the code to my component's Start:Method()  nothing shows up.

I'm positive its something Im doing wrong.. but Im puzzled as to what it could be. I need a nudge !

 

function randomFloat(lower, greater)
    return lower + math.random()  * (greater - lower);
end

misc.lua: ( just a require-module with a bunch of home brew routines in it. )

 

    local amt = 10
    crows = {}
        for t=1, amt do 
            crows[t] = CreateBox(world)
            crows[t]:SetPosition(randomFloat(-2,0, 2.0), 2.0, randomFloat(-2.0, 2.0) )
        end

[SpiderPig]

2 minutes ago, Alienhead said:

-2,0

My first obvious observation.  Might just be a typo in the post 

[Alienhead]

Ahhh i didn't see that typo.. and I was sure hoping that was it.. but correcting it still yields nothing.

Thanks though.

[SpiderPig]

Have you checked to make sure start() is actually being called?  Maybe a print or notify in there just to be sure that's not the issue?

[Alienhead]

Yup it's getting called, placing this code in the Start() method hides the transparent box. ( as it should ) 

 

    self.entity:SetHidden(true)

 

 

[SpiderPig]

I can't see anything else wrong with your code but I'm no lua expert so I'm just rattling off things that might help now... world not null?

[Alienhead]

Heh, you just nailed it..

local world = CreateWorld()

 in the main.lua.  I've been messing with LE and lua for to long to let that one slip by hehe, but then again we never had to call the world in LE when creating AN OBJECT. ::>?)

 

TY !

 

 

[SpiderPig]

Yes I've been called out with that one too.  Glad it's fixed! 

[Josh]

If this code is in a component, you probably want to get the world like this:

local world = self.enttty:GetWorld()

Maybe you need to pass that to a function, but that is a little better than relying on a global variable.

[Alienhead]

These are the positions my World:Pick is giving me.. everyone of them are off by some weird amount.   I've got to quit  for a few days, I'm to frustrated to get anything accomplished.

        for t=1, self.Amount do 

            local piv = CreatePivot(world) ; piv:SetHidden(true)
            local c = crow:Instantiate(world) ; c:SetPickMode(PICK_NONE)
            local pick_info = nil
 
            while pick_info == nil do 
                c:SetPosition(self.entity:GetPosition())
                c:Move(randomFloat( -(self.aabb.size.x/2),(self.aabb.size.x/2)) , self.aabb.size.y/2, randomFloat(-(self.aabb.size.z/2),(self.aabb.size.z/2)))
                piv:SetPosition(c:GetPosition())
                piv:Translate(0,-50,0)
                pick_info = world:Pick(c:GetPosition(true), piv:GetPosition(true), .25, true)
                if pick_info ~= nil then 
                    piv:SetPosition(pick_info.position)
                    c:SetPosition(pick_info.position)
                end
            end

            table.insert( self.crows, {
                piv = piv,
                mesh = c,
            })

	end

 

 

[Josh]

I can try it out if you would like.

[Alienhead]

Sure Josh, I'll send it up.