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Aug 30, 2004, 11:51pm

wish it were possible to have like a list of commands, which happen one
after the other, like, first it rotates 90 degrees, then when thats done it
then moves say 5m forwards, and then when thats done, it moves 5m up. would
make for some pretty cool animation looking things. not sure if it's
possible to do it with that whole astart astop thing, but couldn't figure
out how to use them commands :)

-SWE

Aug 31, 2004, 12:38am

oh those are definitely possible on AAA commands.

Aug 31, 2004, 12:40am

You can do just about anything with AAA commands, even a playable chess game
(as roadkill pointed out)

Aug 31, 2004, 12:37pm

ooh sweet, will have to figure it out then ^_^ thanks

-SWE

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Aug 31, 2004, 4:48pm

to get some thing to look like its moving in a circle
--move in circle arange objects 2 clicks apart (i think)
{m3}>{m4}
/\ \/
{m2}<{m1}
[object that moves clockwise]
create name m1,visible no [moves -X]
create name m2,visible no [moves up Y]
create name m3,visible no [moves +X]
create name m4,visible no [moves down Y]
[controll objects]
create name e1,animate me . 1 1 1000,astart;adone move -1 0 0
name=m1,visible m1 on,visible m4 no,astart e2
create name e2,animate me . 1 1 1000,astart;adone move 0 1 0 name=m2,visible
m2 on,visible m1 no,astart e3
create name e3,animate me . 1 1 1000,astart;adone move 1 0 0 name=m3,visible
m3 on,visible m2 no,astart e4
create name e4,animate me . 1 1 1000,astart;adone move 0 -1 0
name=m4,visible m4 on,visible m3 no,astart e1


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Aug 31, 2004, 10:25pm

One problem there - you have all 4 control objects astart. You need e1 to
be astart, and the rest to be astop.

An alternative way is to name all the control objects the same, and then
change the delay.

Like have them all named e1...then the first one is 1 1 1000
then another e1 object with 1 1 2000
then 1 1 3000 and so on.
With one master control object that would start and stop e1 as desired.

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Sep 1, 2004, 4:25am

hmmm your right, it does work the way it is
but it would be better the way you said :)
-Lightwave

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Sep 1, 2004, 2:56pm

Wouldn't something be better like:

create seq seqID=1 order=1 [next=2]; seq [commands]

then the next object is

create seq seqID=1 order=2 next=1 wait=4; seq [commands]

That starts a sequence called 1 (or abc, etc.)
Order informs the browser that it is number X in the sequence
Next is taken to be Order+1 as default.
Seq is similar to create but only starts when the object's position in the
sequence is called.
Wait tells the browser to wait before continuing to the next point in the
sequence.

Fine, I know this can be done with astart, astop and adone - but wouldn't
this be a much simpler method? I've never got the hang of those commands
myself and think it would be far simpler if it were done this way.

John

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Sep 4, 2004, 1:24am

To create a sequence of motions with Astart Astop, you must have a new
instance of the object at each stage of its motion... essentially having one
object move to certain coordinates where it lines up with a second instance,
switches off and switches the new instance on, where the new instance
executes an action.

It may be horribly inefficient, but it's still possible. If you like, T-gram
me and I'll show you what I mean ^_^
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Sep 6, 2004, 2:37am

Thanks for those codes lightwave..l'll have to try them.

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