HBW new demo, now we're getting somewhere

Well things are starting to shape up a little.



I've had a couple issues, but thanks to the great members of this community, I was able to tweak the code enough to get a lot of wins this past month.

One major one was the fact that Torque does not have any kind of animation-based movement. In other words when someone animates, it actually affects the position and rotation.
Enter getNodeTransform. The savior for HBW.

www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=24275

What Ramen-sama has done is given the ability to get the transform of a particular node within a DTS. When I call my animate function, I pass a parameter called abm (animation-based movement). If that's set to 1, then when AniDone gets called (after any animation concludes), I get the transform of that node and then set the Transform of the AIPlayer to that and bingo, animation-based movement.


Now that's only done for position. Rotation is a little different. Rotation is set per move. I ran into some issues trying to set rotation due to the fact that the editor is in degrees and Torque is in radians.
So I created a function in script to rotate an object. Hopefully it's useful to some people.

function rotateMe(%wrestid, %deg){
   %xfrm = %wrestid.getTransform();
   %lx = getword(%xfrm,0); // first, get the current transform values
   %ly = getword(%xfrm,1);
   %lz = getword(%xfrm,2);
   %rx = getword(%xfrm,3);
   %ry = getword(%xfrm,4);
   %rz = getword(%xfrm,5);
   %rd = getword(%xfrm,6);
   echo(%rz @ " " @ %rd);
   //convert to degrees
   %rd = mRadToDeg(%rd);

   if (%rz < 0){%rd = 360 - %rd;}

   //apply rotation
   %rd += %deg;
   if (%rd > 360){%rd -= 360;}
   %rz = 1;
   //convert to torque
   //echo("here: " @ %rd);
   if (%rd > 239){
      %rz = -1;
      %rd = 360 - %rd;  
   }
   %rd = mDegToRad(%rd);
%wrestid.setTransform(%lx SPC %ly SPC %lz SPC %rx SPC %ry SPC %rz SPC %rd);
schedule(10,0,scaleme, %wrestid);
}

%wrestid is the id of the object to be rotated.
%deg is the rotation in degrees that you want to rotate the object.

I also was able to use the getNodeTransform to keep the wrestler within the ropes during a grapple move. I check the node and slide the wrestlers over. I still have to implement that on the "fallback" animation.
So here is the tech demo of the project thus far. We definitely have the start of a fighting engine.

http://www.homebrewwrestling.com/HBWTech_3_9.zip

"arrows" move you around, "a" performs a strike, holding "a" down performs a kick, "s" performs a grapple. Grappling normally allows you to use light moves. Grappling a dizzy opponent performs heavy grapple moves. I only have 2 moves so far.

So to perform a bodyslam...
Grapple an opponent by moving towards him and hitting "s" on the keyboard. Move the player around if you want. Then hit "s" again to bodyslam him.


To perform a suplex...
Get the player dizzy by kicking him 1 time or striking him 3 times. Grapple him opponent by moving towards him and hitting "s" on the keyboard. Move the player around if you want. Then hit "s" again to suplex him.


Please have fun and any comments are appreciated.
God bless
...til next time