Projectile: Timed & Bounce
by Rex · in Torque Game Engine · 12/26/2003 (3:58 pm) · 3 replies
I'm curious if it's possible to add a time delay to a projectiles' explosion to simulate a timed fuse perhaps and not trigger on mere Impact, and somehow to get a little 'bounce' out of the object once hitting another, or would a timed delay actually allow the bouncefriction/bounce elasticity? kick in??? I've got a thrown projectile weapon instead of throwable item since that's what my meager skills could derive...:/, a weapon that 'throws' projectiles, of course I've not gotten a player animation together to simulate a Fire yet, I'm just trying things out...THX
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#2
PS-just went back and edited armingDelay = 5; and this did not cause a delay...the projectile still exploded on impact, hmmm...I recompiled the script with a new engine...
I also took bounceElasticity to 0.50.
Do I need to move the lines further up in the steps...?
Survey Says,"No", with a bit of fiddling, I determined it's in milliseconds and not to extend the field name...D'oh. at 5000, it gave me a nice 5 second delay...Thanks.
12/27/2003 (8:43 am)
...ah, thanks LabRat...now,that's in Seconds, or Mseconds? I've nocticed that extension on some time fields...PS-just went back and edited armingDelay = 5; and this did not cause a delay...the projectile still exploded on impact, hmmm...I recompiled the script with a new engine...
I also took bounceElasticity to 0.50.
Do I need to move the lines further up in the steps...?
Survey Says,"No", with a bit of fiddling, I determined it's in milliseconds and not to extend the field name...D'oh. at 5000, it gave me a nice 5 second delay...Thanks.
#3
05/23/2004 (4:51 pm)
Thats in milliseconds btw. 
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