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Im creating a cage with an NPC inside it, this might be abit beyond what UnrealEd can do but is there anyway that when i run into the cage WITH the NPC in it that it would wobble? Or am i asking too much of the engine?

Can't help exactly, but I wondered (have not coded in so long, so not sure) if physics could be scripted, i.e. when you throw an object (or hit it in your case) you could script the object to rotate the way you wanted it to by adjusting its pitch, roll, yaw etc...it wouldn't be realistic but it could be the closest to any sort of real physics you can get for UED 1 engine.

That's abit beyond me I'm afraid it was worth a shot. Wasn't crucial but would have been nice.

Morpheus wrote:Can't help exactly, but I wondered (have not coded in so long, so not sure) if physics could be scripted, i.e. when you throw an object (or hit it in your case) you could script the object to rotate the way you wanted it to by adjusting its pitch, roll, yaw etc...it wouldn't be realistic but it could be the closest to any sort of real physics you can get for UED 1 engine.

This sort of thing pretty much already happens in Deus Ex, albeit to a limited degree. Check out HKHangingDecoration or whatever the superclass of the hanging pig, lantern, etc. are.

The real problem here is that actor collision in Deus Ex is purely cylinder-based. You can't have an actor with a hollow spot in the middle for another actor to stand in.

I guess you could do it with movers, maybe, if you're extremely goddamn lucky, but probably not, since they might only be able to work via keyframes.

Don't know, but if the mover doesn't have any keyframes it can be manipulated into rotating and other shit like that.

You could update the Pawns Rotation/Location in the cage's Tick() method.

That's abit beyond me I'm afraid

Deus Ex Physics? More like Deus Ex Physnichts (heh)

*cough*

Some native code could create great new better physics for the game, but Deja told be that it would create problems. I am not sure how.

If I ever get my hands on the source code I'll be interested to take a look. Although implementing some actual physics would probably be waay out of my league. If I get my hands on the source I'll probably just do bugfixes/implement stuff from the later builds of the UT1 engine.

Admittedly its way out of my comfort zone, but maybe?

Classes: Actor, Triggers, Trigger, ShakeTrigger, properties: set collision and ShakeTrigger settings to match your cage size and desired shake-i-ness?

I'll certainly give it a go!

Mikakk wrote:Admittedly its way out of my comfort zone, but maybe?

Classes: Actor, Triggers, Trigger, ShakeTrigger, properties: set collision and ShakeTrigger settings to match your cage size and desired shake-i-ness?

Are you just guessing here or what? That's not even close to what ShakeTrigger does... or trigger collision size, for that matter.

sorry

Sorry about being snippy; I was playing Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup and my character died due to my own stupidity and I was peeved about it. Yes, that's my excuse, and I'm going to have to live with it.