Entity Properties on Collision

[jefftrier]

Hi all,

 

First I would like to say that it's nice meeting this community. I have been playing around with this engine for a few days (random tutorials, prototypes, etc), and I have to say I am very excited about it!

 

Now on to the question!

 

I want to create a pick-up object that disappears when the player walks into it (ammo/health/etc). I know there has to be a basic tutorial on this, but I am having no luck locating one.

 

What I would like to do, is make this call in the Collision function in FPSPlayer.lua. From my understanding, tname should give me the entity name... but none is returned (rather I get 0x00000000, which I imagine in null).

 

function Script:Collision(entity,position,normal,speed)
if speed>20 then
self:Hurt(100)
end

tname = entity:GetKeyValue("name")
System:Print(tname)

end

 

Can someone point me in the right direction?

 

Thanks!

-Jeff

[Rick]

I did a tutorial on a weapon pickup that does this.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWBGtJ7NQ4Y

[jefftrier]

Great! Thanks a lot.

[jefftrier]

That did the trick!

 

Hey, you know... I have to say that this tutorial was FAR more useful than was titled. I think it's perfect for beginners (like me ^.- ) to get started from scratch, and to learn the base mechanics relatively quickly. It may deserve a retitling to "Leadwerks for Newbies", or some-such.

 

Great job on that tutorial!

 

-Jeff

[Rick]

I have others on that channel you can check out that help with various other things. Glad you liked it.

[Rick]

If you haven't seen this already here is a tutorials post I maintain that holds current tutorials and future tutorial ideas for anyone to create.

 

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/8103-gameplay-tutorial-requests-here/

[jefftrier]

Great stuff! I've been watching them.

 

Thanks for putting in the time to create those tutorials... they are really giving me a good start!

 

-Jeff