door

[PcWizKid]

i have made a door model in blender and textured it and everything but now this is what i need: You walk up to the door and it displays a message on the screen "Press E to use" then when you press E the door opens. how might I do this?

 

 

thanks,

Garrett

[AggrorJorn]

You can do this with a raytrace. I've tried to do this before by showing a hand icon on special objects, but I never got it working on purely the models I wanted it 2. place this in the main loop, before FW:Update.

pick=CameraPick(camera,Vec3(GraphicsWidth()/2,GraphicsHeight()/2,2.0),0,0)
	if pick~=nil then
		repeat
			if pick.entity:GetClass()==ENTITY_MODEL then
				break
			end
			pick.entity=pick.entity.parent
		until pick.entity==nil
		if pick.entity~=nil then
			showText =1
		end
	end

and then before the flipp command

SetBlend(1)

       if showText == 1 then
      DrawText("Press E to open door"GraphicsWidth()/2,GraphicsHeight()/2) 
       end

       SetBlend(0) 

 

or instead of a raytrace you can use EntityDistance:

if EntityDistance(fw.main.camera,door) <2 then
--showText=1
end

 

You can then either have code to rotate the door on it's Y axis or you play an animation.

[PcWizKid]

ok i did everything u said but an error comes up saying "failed to open Fpscontroller.lua"

 

And then amother saying " ')' expected near 'GraphicsWitdth' "

 

 

P.S I also saw the "VisualKnights Developer Diary - 1 - Mission Tab" video. It looks great!!

[AggrorJorn]

Here is an adjusted fpscontroller. It shows you text when you are near an object and no text when you are not. I am still truying to make lua script that you can add to objects. This way the text only opens when you for example have turned on an option for the lua model.

 

and thanks for your comment on the video

fpsICON.zip