Dynamic Attachment to objects

Ok, so some of you may be familiar with my "Platforms that players can ride" psuedo-resource. It allows players to ride DTS pathshape objects wherever they roam.

I've been working on this code ALL day, since about 10am till.. heck it's 3:41 now. I hit alot of snags, forgot what most of my code did, etc.

I've improved it. Now other types of objects can ride the platforms. Currently, Item, players, and static shapes can ride around. yay.

It's also 1.5.2 compatible. quite a few small changes were made to some of the files, so this has been "fixed"

Suppose i better show some pictures, how bout a video as well?


Here you can see the player object with a dozen or some objects attached to him. And off in the distance is our favorite orc to shoot, Kork, riding along a pathshape.

subvoicestudios.com/~ramensama/TorqueDynamicAttachment.avi 1024 x 768
subvoicestudios.com/~ramensama/TorqueDynamicAttachment-sm.avi 800 x 600

Now please know that there's a few times when the screen doesn't update, this was when i was pressing the ~ key... apparently that told fraps to do some benchmark crap at that time. it's not related to the attachment code which is instantaneous.

I could remake the video... but i'm not gonna :P



The next step for me is attaching in relation to node. So the player can reach down and pick something up, or something. Or Projectiles, swords, shrapnel will stick into the player and animate based on a node... but not restricted to the node's transform like mounting. As you can tell this is a step beyond mounting.

I've laid the ground work for most types of objects to work, but right now they need to have an interpolatetick function.




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Updated code availalable in my link below. Check it out!
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=57187
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