A clearvelocity() function sounds great!!!

Then I could do something like:

var force[3];

force = 100000;

me = pPlayer;
you = pBall;

clearvelocity(you); //new clear velocity function

phent_enable(you,1);

temp.x = cos(my.pan) * force;
temp.y = sin(my.pan) * force;
temp.z = 0;

phent_addcentralforce(you,temp);

I think that would be GREAT Marco, though if it's going to do nothing diffrent than the velocity governor can do, then I'd stick to an addendum in the manual under phent_setmaxvelocity and perhaps optimize phent_setmaxvel so that on a 0,0,0 parameter pass, it acts like the clear velocity.

What advantages, if any, would there be to a separate call to clear velocity? Maybe a complete kinematic wipe on an entity would be better, with velocity and force set to zero? That could be handy and if you only want vel zeroed, you'd use the governor or if you just want the force zeroed, you'd use a phent_addforce(null) call.

On another note, you said:

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which does perform a reset but is slow

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Slow, huh? In order to completely reset a entities PE record (velocity and force and what else?), how many server frames should I give it? Right now I just have it under a wait(1) command.

I don't know what code is under the hood but I think altering phent_setmaxvel may cause problems as it's used to stop the entity after it's reached a certain velocity. Altering it the way you suggest would change it's behavior for paramaters of 0,0,0 only and I'm not sure that's such a good idea. It would probably be easier and cleaner to add different behaviors via new functions as opposed to altering existing ones.

Regardless of what code is "under the hood" I think we are both interested in a quick function that simply resets the variables to zero WITHOUT unregistering the entity. This way when we apply forces via phent_addvelocity we will know there are no existing forces already there. Is my assumption correct, because clearvelocity() definatly sounds like what I need.

Spot on Ipro. That's all I think we need, something to clear out all relavant forces and velocities and thus giving a clean slate for a PE without the need to disengage.

Agreed

phent_clearvelocity() should be in the next update.

schwwweeeeet!
Thanks!

1. Has our "phent_clearvelocity()" function been added yet. I've been waiting a long time

2. Marco. I need my original forum account's email address reset so I can get my lost password. I've sent several emails that were supposed to be forworded to you. Have they made it?

Al Tucker

Eh, hem... Anyone there to answer my question above? I've been patient.