Author Topic: Mine cart playertype  (Read 2659 times)

You can precisely control the movement of vehicles too.

Far more people know how to use bot events, though.

Far more people know how to use bot events, though.

However you shouldn't do mine carts with events.

However you shouldn't do mine carts with events.

Why not?

Why not?

What is the point of doing long, complicated events for every single brick on a manually built track when you can just have a vehicle that moves along it on specially designated invisible and non-colliding plates on top of the track?

What is the point of doing long, complicated events for every single brick on a manually built track when you can just have a vehicle that moves along it on specially designated invisible and non-colliding plates on top of the track?

Teach me this sorcery.

Teach me this sorcery.

Well, people usually call it scripting.

Well, people usually call it scripting.

Screw that, I'm using in-game events.

No, seriously.  Someone make a mine cart player.

Edit: On further in-game inspection, vehicle bots seem to completely ignore movement events when being ridden.  Is there a way around this?
« Last Edit: May 21, 2012, 04:28:52 AM by Plastiware »

Edit: On further in-game inspection, vehicle bots seem to completely ignore movement events when being ridden.  Is there a way around this?

Yes, don't make players control the vehicle, just mount them and make them control their camera orbiting it.

I shall make it. I'm used to making minecraft playetypes anyway.

I shall make it. I'm used to making minecraft playetypes anyway.

Woohoo!

I expect you can make it un-controllable?  That way it can follow bot events rather than being driven.

>Sees topic.
>Sees "Minecart"
>envisions a Minecraft cart.
>Reads topic.
>Disappoint.

>Sees topic.
>Sees "Minecart"
>envisions a Minecraft cart.
>Reads topic.
>Disappoint.
With me, you shall not be disappoint.

With me, you shall not be disappoint.

Just don't make it look like the Minecraft minecart, it doesn't fit the style of Blockland.

Just don't make it look like the Minecraft minecart, it doesn't fit the style of Blockland.

Or, if you do, make an alternative version that looks more like it belongs in Blockland.

I wonder how pompmaker is doing on that mine cart...