Event - OnVehicleMove

[Kyle Crane]

Basically, i need an OnVehicleThrottle event. Just like this:

OnVehicleMove > Vehicle : Play sound or something else.

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[Conan]

this wouldn't really work since you can't apply events onto vehicles, though i suppose you can attach it to the vehicle spawn. and what kind of vehicle action/movement would be defined as throttling?

[Shift Kitty]

Even if you could apply events to vehicles, I'm pretty sure there are no callbacks for such a thing.

[SWAT One]

Pretty sure it's the equivalent of pressing down the gas pedal.

[Potatoh]

Someone made a event pack that worked with cars and stuff

[jes00]

Don't know why everyone is saying you can't have events for vehicles. As long as the input event gives you vehicle as a target, you can.

[Shift Kitty]

Don't know why everyone is saying you can't have events for vehicles. As long as the input event gives you vehicle as a target, you can.

As an output yes.

You can't apply inputs to a vehicle (properly). (yet? who knows if i'll ever finish anything)

[Kyle Crane]

I actually have Vehicle events i got them from blockland forums. So it will work for my server.

[jes00]

You can't apply inputs to a vehicle (properly).

Why not?

[Shift Kitty]

Why not?

Not only do no input events currently exist for them, but there's a number of other problems.
The client gui assumes everything being evented is a brick.
The ServerCmdAddEvent function assumes everything receiving an event is going to be in a brickgroup (via .getGroup instead of getBrickGroupFromObject), thus, named bricks will not work for anything other than bricks.
The SimObject::processInputEvent:
Assumes that the object is inside a brickgroup, which would break named bricks for events applied to anything but a brick.
Assumes the input class is a brick for determining number of args. The reason this breaks things is...
Let's say... fxDTSBrick::onActivate has an ID of 0, with targets Self ID 0, Player ID 1, Client ID 2, Minigame ID 3.
Let's say... Player::onActivate also has an ID of 0, with targets Self(Player) ID 0, Self(Client) ID 1, ActivatingPlayer ID 2, ActivatingClient ID 3, Minigame ID 4.
This next part isn't exactly correct and is only used as an example:
And now... let's say... fxDTSBrick::setColor has an ID of 0, with only 1 arg, client appending.
And that Player::SpawnProjectile also had an ID of 0, with 3 args, client appending.
If you had an event set up like... Player: OnActivate > Self(Player) > SpawnProjectile > 20, arrowProjectile, 3 3 3
What would happen when you activated it... is that it's going to check for input targets assuming that the input class is a brick. So it's going to check fxDTSBrick::onActivate's target list instead of Player's.
So it ends up on Self, because we were using Self(Player). Self is an fxDTSBrick class for fxDTSBrick::onActivate. So it's going to check for the output event by ID now.
It checks for fxDTSBrick::setColor, which only has 1 arg, and client appending.
So now it's going to call Player::SpawnProjectile(%this,20,%client); And I'm sure you can guess, that %client is not the arrow projectile datablock it's expecting. So nothing happens.


I've fixed all of this already, I just haven't like, done anything useful with it yet.

[Swollow]

um why not just apply the onVehicle___ to a vehicle brick and just have the vehicle sent the input to the brick?

and on that input just include
onVehicle___ > Vehicle > Do stuff

[Shift Kitty]

That was already brought up and no one argued against that.

Problem being that you still can't do throttle anyway.

[Teneksi]

but you can use a speed check and see if it's accelerating

this is, of course, going from a conveniently triggered event to a looping script but it could result in what they want

[SWAT One]

but you can use a speed check and see if it's accelerating

this is, of course, going from a conveniently triggered event to a looping script but it could result in what they want

Problem is that once you get up to full speed, the event won't be triggered consistently.

Can you detect if a player is in the driver's seat and also check that whatever moveForward(1); is (idk how scripting works that much) are both running at the same time?

[Kyle Crane]

God damnit as i mean throttle i mean when Vehicle moves forward back and right to left..