playertouchsme problem

[Understood]

I'm working on an event where basically you're falling down a shaft and you have to dodge these spikes that randomly place themselves while you fall...However, I used onPlayerTouchsme() without knowing the player had to be facing the object z.z

The player needs to die when touching the spike, regardless of their direction! Is there anything I can do to get around this?

PHP Code:

function onPlayerTouchsme()
{
  if (player.y < (this.y - 1.5))
  {
    this.killPlayer();
  }
} 


[DustyPorViva]

PlayerTouchesme actually initiates when the player actually touches the NPC. And that only happens when the player is moving(pressing a key) and connects... not when the player and object hit each other.

You'll have to run a timeout and check for when the player is in the proper coordinates.

[Demisis_P2P]

SOUNDS COOOOL.

I don't know the syntax for GS2, but you could use something like
playerx in |x,x2| && playery in |y,y2|

[cbk1994]

I would probably do something like

PHP Code:

function onCreated()
{
  onTimeOut();
}
function onPlayerEnters()
{
  onCreated();
}
function onTimeOut()
{
  if ( players.size() <= 0 )
  {
    return;
  }
  
  temp.pl = findNearestPlayer( this.x, this.y );
  
  if ( pl.x in | this.x - 2, this.x + 3 | && pl.y in | this.y - 2, this.y + 2 )
  {
    pl.attack();
  }
  
  setTimer( .3 );
} 


You could also have a system weapon like this:

PHP Code:

//#CLIENTSIDE
function onCreated()
{
  setTimer( 0.05 );
}
function onTimeOut()
{
  temp.ns = findareanpcs( player.x - 1, player.y + 1, 2, 2 );
  
  for ( temp.npc : ns )
  {
    if ( npc.isSpike )
    {
      player.attack();
    }
  }
  setTimer( 0.05 );
} 


and in the spike

PHP Code:

function onCreated()
{
  this.isSpike = true;
}
function onPlayerEnters()
{
  player.addWeapon( "-SpikeDetector" );
  onCreated();
} 


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for Era?

[The Class]

function onCreated() {
  this.setShape(1, 32, 32);
}

function onActionDetect() {
  //Public function for doing damage
}
//#CLIENTSIDE
function onPlayerEnters() {
  this.x = random(this.x - 10, this.x + 10); //Make it random...
  setTimer(0.05);
}

function onTimeout() {
  if (player.x in |this.x, this.x + 32| && player.y in |this.y, this.y + 32|) {
    if (this.wait =< 0) {
      triggeraction(this.x, this.y, "Detect", "");
      this.wait = 4;
    }
  }
  if (this.wait > 0) this.wait -= 0.05;
  setTimer(0.05);
}

[DrakilorP2P]

Try not to make anyone angry with poor collision detection. So far everyone in this thread have suggested a rectangle, which might now make a spike justice.

[Kristi]

Umm... serverside code for this Sid? Terrible, and CBK might be complicating things too much.

Logical steps people
Things we need to do:
- Init things
- timeout start
- Spawn a spike?
--- Random check for spike
--- Check to see if the spawning rate should change
- update spike positions
- check for player collisions
--- do what happens when player collides.
- timeout

PHP Code:

//#CLIENTSIDE

// ================ Events ===================

function onCreated() {
  init();
  onTimeout();
}

//====================

function onTimeout() {
  if(checkSpawnSpike(this.spawnRate)) {
    this.spikes.add(spawnSpike());
  }
  for (temp.s: this.spikes) {
    temp.s.updateSpikePos();
    if(temp.s.checkPlayerCollision()) {
      doPlayerDamage();
    }
  }
  setTimer(.05);
}

// ============= ! End Events ====================

// ========== User Defined Functions ===============

function init() {
  // init values here
  // for example: the starting rate of spikes
}

//=====================

function checkSpawnRate() {
  // return true if should spawn a spike
  // false is not
  // (maybe use random? :D)
}

//=======================

function spawnSpike() {
  // Return an object with the spike's properties & functions
  // Functions include 
  // updateSpikePos() 
  //   - change the spike's coordinates
  //   - change where the spike visually is.
  // checkPlayerCollision()
  //   - most likely a check to see if an isosceles triangle (spike) 
  //     is colliding with a rectangle (player)
  //     return true if is and false otherwise
}

//====================

function doPlayerDamage() {
  // What happens when a player actually gets hit.
}

// ========== ! User Defined Functions ============= 


[Inverness]

PHP Code:

//#CLIENTSIDE
function onCreated() {
  this.spikechance = 10; // 10 percent
  this.spikebox = {<x>, <y>, <width>, <height>}; //area to spawn spikes
  this.settimer(0.05);
}
function onTimeout() {
  if (this.shouldspawnspike()) {
    this.spikes.add(this.spawnspike());
  }
  for (temp.i: this.spikes) {
    this.updatespike(temp.i);
    if (this.checkspike(temp.i)) {
      this.damageplayer();
    }
  }
  this.settimer(0.05);
}
function shouldspawnspike() {
  return random(0, 99) < this.spikechance;
}
function spawnspike() {
  temp.spike = new TStaticVar();
  temp.spike.x = <random x>;
  temp.spike.y = <random y>;
  // x and y should be in this.spikebox
  return temp.spike;
}
function updatespike(spike) {
  temp.spikeindex = this.spikes.index(temp.spike);
  with (findimg(200 + temp.spikeindex)) {
    this.x = temp.spike.x;
    this.y = temp.spike.y;
    // blah
  }
}
function checkspike(spike) {
  // Collision check
}
function damageplayer() {
  // o.o
} 


I like my styling better.

And that script would fill up the box, probably not what you want.

*Bored*

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ahh, using showimg, good idea