Laser Pointer that works with bots

[SuperSuit12]

I need a version of the laser pointer that works with bots. The current one only calls onActivate on bricks. It should be pretty easy. I looked at the code but don't know how bots differ from bricks. Blockland isn't well documented.

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[phflack]

by works with bots, do you mean activates them instead of burning them?

[SuperSuit12]

by works with bots, do you mean activates them instead of burning them?

yes, I already figured out how to remove the damage
(hint: there's a number labelled damage somewhere in there, set it to 0, boom, you're a skilled scripter now)

[phflack]

looking through it and found

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if(%colType & $TypeMasks::fxBrickObjectType && getSimTime() - %col.lastLaserActivateTime > 200)
   {
     %col.lastLaserActivateTime = getSimTime();
     $InputTarget_["Self"]   = %col;
     $InputTarget_["Player"] = %obj;
     $InputTarget_["Client"] = %obj.client;
     if($Server::LAN)
     {
        $InputTarget_["MiniGame"] = getMiniGameFromObject(%obj.client);
     }
     else
     {
        $InputTarget_["MiniGame"] = getMiniGameFromObject(%col);
     }
     %col.processInputEvent("onActivate", %obj.client);
   }

probably want something similar, but checking if it's a bot instead of a brick, then finding the different needed values to send to the bots brick

[SuperSuit12]

I believe that was where I left off.
Maybe I should've put this in Mod. Discussion, I can probably do at least some of this myself

[Perry]

how do you 'activate' a bot? what do you want the pointer to do to the bot?

[Conan]

how do you 'activate' a bot? what do you want the pointer to do to the bot?

bot spawn brick:
onBotActivated

[SuperSuit12]

bot spawn brick:
onBotActivated

ezaktleh
anyone know how that'd work?

[Perry]

something like AiPlayer.hole.onBotActivate()

[Conan]

ezaktleh
anyone know how that'd work?

probably package player::onactivatestuff or something like that and do a raycast check to see if the player is looking at a bot, then calling the event on the bot spawn brick.

[SuperSuit12]

probably package player::onactivatestuff or something like that and do a raycast check to see if the player is looking at a bot, then calling the event on the bot spawn brick.

it's on projectile hit, actually, at least the original laser pointer activate is