Have player pick up coins??

Posted By: gSet

Have player pick up coins?? - 12/16/10 22:24

I know this seems like an absolutely trivial issue, but no matter how much reading I do in the manual or on the boards, or how many different things I try, I can't seem to make this work. All I want to do is make the player able to pick up a coin, such that when the player touches a coin an event is called. I've tried having the coins c_scan for the player, as well as the other way around. I've tried having the coin c_rotate with ENABLE_IMPACT so that the event is called, but the event is called as soon as the coins are created. What could I do to make this work? It should be so simple! If someone can show me what code to use, there won't be any room for stupid mistakes on my part

Posted By: Liamissimo

Re: Have player pick up coins?? - 12/16/10 22:40

Code:

action coin()
{
	while(me)
	{
		c_scan(my.x,my.pan,vector(360,360,75),IGNORE_ME);
		if(you == player)
		{
			coins += 1;
			ent_remove(me);
		}
		wait(1);
	}
}

Just take this as action an add it to the coin, coins is the variable vor the coins that the player have, c_scan scans for the player, type in the script of your player

Code:

player = me;

For further questions ask

Posted By: MrGuest

Re: Have player pick up coins?? - 12/17/10 11:22

Originally Posted By: TheLiam

Code:

action coin()
{
	while(me)
	{
		c_scan(my.x,my.pan,vector(360,360,75),IGNORE_ME);
		if(you == player)
		{
			coins += 1;
			ent_remove(me);
		}
		wait(1);
	}
}

Just take this as action an add it to the coin, coins is the variable vor the coins that the player have, c_scan scans for the player, type in the script of your player

Code:

player = me;

For further questions ask

I wouldn't use c_scan for each coin, it'd be better on FPS using
vec_dist(my.x, player.x)
and also in the action have a
while(!player){wait(1);}
otherwise you'll be having a few errors along the way

Posted By: badapple

Re: Have player pick up coins?? - 12/17/10 11:33

you dont need a while loop for such things , especially one running a c scan every frame.

a simple enable impact should do just fine , and its event function can check to see if it was the player who collided

enable impact does not require a while loop running.

Posted By: Liamissimo

Re: Have player pick up coins?? - 12/17/10 11:36

enable impact isn't good for collecting things, you don't want to collide with every coin you are collecting do you?

Posted By: gSet

Re: Have player pick up coins?? - 12/20/10 14:29

Thanks a bunch! It seems so similar to what I'd been doing that I'm not sure what wasn't working, but with a couple of slight modifications this does exactly what I needed it to. The way it's set up, when you grab a coin your pos and the pos of all the coins are randomized (I know it sounds like a crappy game... It's for research lol), and so I had to remove all the coins, randomize the position array, and the player pos, and replace them all. I didn't realize that c_scan modified you, so that's actually extremely useful - I'd been using emask.