Interpolators

[rafa_es]

Hi,

I'm using distance and angle interpolators to make the doors on my game open and close. When a door is first picked it start the increase of the interpolators like this

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pAI1e.startIncreasing(0); pDI1e.startIncreasing(0);

When this door is picked again it starts the drecrease of the interpolators

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pAI1e.startDecreasing(0); pDI1e.startDecreasing(0);

The first time i click he door it increase the value fine, when i click the door again to close and again to open, it does not create the intermediary values for the interpolator.
Did i miss something?

Rafael

[Amos Wenger]

AFAIK, the interpolators don't use marvin's timing code, which is not really good. I don't know if there are similar classes which do a similar job taking that into account. In any case, that would be real easy to implement it.

[Marvin Fröhlich]

AFAIK, the interpolators don't use marvin's timing code, which is not really good. I don't know if there are similar classes which do a similar job taking that into account. In any case, that would be real easy to implement it.

Interfaces:
org.xith3d.behaviors.Animatable

Classes:
org.xith3d.behaviors.impl.AnimatableGroup
org.xith3d.behaviors.impl.Bullet
org.xith3d.behaviors.impl.GroupAnimator
org.xith3d.behaviors.impl.GroupRotator
org.xith3d.behaviors.impl.GroupTranslator
org.xith3d.behaviors.impl.RotatableGroup
org.xith3d.behaviors.impl.TranslatableGroup

Please to a fresh SVN checkout, since there was a misspelling of GroupRotator which was named GroupRotater.

See org.xith3d.test.animation.RotatableGroupTest for an example.

But as an easy fix you should use the following for all you startIncreasing() calls.

1	pAI1e.startIncreasing( this.getGameTime() ); // I assume "this" is your RenderLoop

You'll certainly call pAI1e.getValue( gameTime );. And this won't work, if you don't start with the current gameTime.

Marvin

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[rafa_es]

But as an easy fix you should use the following for all you startIncreasing() calls.

1	pAI1e.startIncreasing( this.getGameTime() ); // I assume "this" is your RenderLoop

That fixed the problem 

Thanks Marvin

Rafael

[Amos Wenger]

By the way, rafa_es, did you applied my pieces of advices on your code? If you want I can send you my local (corrected) version.

[rafa_es]

By the way, rafa_es, did you applied my pieces of advices on your code? If you want I can send you my local (corrected) version.

Yes Amos, all that was posted that needed to be fixed in the game was done
If you think that you forgot to post some fix, you can send me

Thanks for the help too 

Rafael

[Amos Wenger]

Well there's something I didn't commented cause I took as granted that you knew what you were doing.

But listing all doors in your level as local variables is just plain ugly and really inconvenient. If you haven't any reason to keep it like this, then we could easily find a better solution. Real easy, and 1000x more elegant.

[rafa_es]

I saw that It's preety ugly this way. I'll build a class for that when i finish a homework that i have to do for tomorrow.

It's already in my TO-DO list.

Rafael

[Amos Wenger]

OK, perfect then.

Good luck,

Amos

[rafa_es]

Fixed 

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[Amos Wenger]

Fixed 

Good.

I don't know if you planned it but making red objects which are targeted would be a really good idea. With the distance (minDist < 3000) thing it's really hard to know if you can get/open/close the object or not.

Also for the encoding of your classes I see lots of strange characters in the "instructions" strings. If it's not UTF-8 (which I suspect) you'd better use that.

[rafa_es]

I don't know if you planned it but making red objects which are targeted would be a really good idea. With the distance (minDist < 3000) thing it's really hard to know if you can get/open/close the object or not.

I didn't get this part? Can you post a example of that?

Also for the encoding of your classes I see lots of strange characters in the "instructions" strings. If it's not UTF-8 (which I suspect) you'd better use that.

I don't see that here.

Rafael

[Amos Wenger]

I don't know if you planned it but making red objects which are targeted would be a really good idea. With the distance (minDist < 3000) thing it's really hard to know if you can get/open/close the object or not.

I didn't get this part? Can you post a example of that?

Well from what I observed of the game you can "pick" some objects, is that right? And you can only pick them, when you are near enough (less than 3000, it's in your code). So it would be cool if when you can pick an object, this object is highlited in red (e.g. appearance.setColor(new Color3f(Color.red)); )

Also for the encoding of your classes I see lots of strange characters in the "instructions" strings. If it's not UTF-8 (which I suspect) you'd better use that.

I don't see that here.

do you use Eclipse ? in the file properties you can see the file encoding.

[rafa_es]

Well from what I observed of the game you can "pick" some objects, is that right? And you can only pick them, when you are near enough (less than 3000, it's in your code). So it would be cool if when you can pick an object, this object is highlited in red (e.g. appearance.setColor(new Color3f(Color.red)); )

I got it, but i don't have a clue of how can i do that.

do you use Eclipse ? in the file properties you can see the file encoding.

I use NetBeans but i checked and it's UTF-8

Rafael

[Amos Wenger]

how you can do what ?

well you know how to detect when an object is picked. now you just have to pick every frame.
and to highlight an object in red just use as I said : appearance.setColor(new Color3f(Color.red))