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GUI Speedometer for all ShapeBase objects

by Jason "fireVein" Culwell · in Torque Game Engine · 01/05/2005 (5:27 am) · 3 replies

Just for anyone's future reference(since I couldn't find this elsewhere) here is a quick fix to display the speedometer for a player object. Actually for any ShapeBase object.

In guiSpeedometer.cc in the function onRender change the following line:

Vehicle* control = dynamic_cast<Vehicle*>(conn->getControlObject());

To:

ShapeBase* control = dynamic_cast<ShapeBase*>(conn->getControlObject());

And voila! Simple, eh? C'mon, you knew you could have figured it out. :)

-Jase

p.s. Also works properly when mounting a vehicle. Of course, since the controlobject is set to the vehicle when you mount, what did you expect? :P

I hope it helps someone.

- Update -

To show the speedometer only when the player object is mounted to a vehicle or if the controlobject is set to the vehicle, do the above as well as the following.

Same file, same function. Change:

if (!control)
      return;

To:

if (!control || (!control->isMounted() && !(control->getTypeMask() & VehicleObjectType)))
      return;

Again, I hope it helps someone.

[edit]
Fixed a small bug where the speedometer wasn't being drawn for the vehicle if you were not a mounted player object. Should work fine, now.
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    Torque Owner Brett Fattori
    #1
    01/05/2005 (5:40 am)
    Thanks! :-)

    - Brett

    Torque Owner Jason "fireVein" Culwell
    #2
    01/05/2005 (5:59 am)
    No problem, thanks for letting me know I doofed and posted in the wrong forum. :)

    -Jase

    Torque Owner Brian Richardson
    #3
    03/10/2005 (8:21 am)
    Juan,

    Simplest solution for that case would be to add a consoleMethod to GuiSpeedometer called "setObject". Then in script you could do a GuiSpeed.setObject(%myCar);

    Then change the top of GuiSpeedometerHud::onRender to look like this:

    ShapeBase* control;
  if (!mObject) {
   // Must have a connection and player control object
   GameConnection* conn = GameConnection::getServerConnection();
   if (!conn)
      return;
   control = dynamic_cast<ShapeBase*>(conn->getControlObject());
   if (!control)
      return;
  } else {
    control = mObject;
  }

    Add this to the private section:
    ShapeBase* mObject;

    Add this public member function:
    void GuiSpeedometerHud::setObject(const ShapeBase* sb)
{
  mObject = sb;
}

    Finally, add this console method:
    ConsoleMethod( GuiSpeedometerHud, setlObject, bool, 3, 3, "(ShapeBase obj)")
{
   ShapeBase* controlObject;
   if (Sim::findObject(argv[2],controlObject)) {
      object->setObject(controlObject);
      return true;
   }
   else
      object->setObject(0);
   return false;
}

    *Edit: filled in the rest of the blanks. ;)

    I did this in post, I haven't tested it. There are probably small syntax errors or something.

    Thanks,
    Brian