Ruby scripting a movement in engine

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March 29th, 2010, 07:39 AM

neonfish

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Ruby scripting a movement in engine

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Hello

Im a ruby beginner.And I am trying to animate something in a simple 3d engine which has a ruby binding available.So
you can utilize some loaded models in the engine to move, blink etc.I ve managed to blink,to rotate and to move a
loaded model.The scene you will see is basicaly a globe model with the texture of the sky on it in the middle is a ground model with a grass texture.There is a road juncion model and a car on the road.I m asking for help or litle guidance because Im stuck in this one.Basicaly I m trying to create a turning movement (method) for an object(car or anything else).{A very basic

movement with no physics involved) .To be able to take a turn on a junction for example in any way.

If I send you the

basic engine and my scripts along with the models could you please help me with this? I am not or maybe the

philosophy behind of the programming of this kind of a movement.AS I uderstand you are creating scripts in Ruby

for Google Sketchup.So maybe you can help me in this.

#####The files####

You can run my basic script with the start.bat. The models and the configuration files are in DATA and DATA\Vila directory there is also the *rb fle which creates the whole scene.

there is a simple blinking script and a simple movemetn script aslo a rotation script. But Im not able to do a

movement along a curve.MAybe a bazier curve or something with that? hoping for help.

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March 29th, 2010, 11:14 AM

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This is not a factory; we do not churn out solutions to compensate for your lack of effort. Should you insist on treating this like a factory you will have to offer up compensation to the employees.

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March 30th, 2010, 01:03 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by L7Sqr

This is not a factory; we do not churn out solutions to compensate for your lack of effort. Should you insist on treating this like a factory you will have to offer up compensation to the employees.

Hi I am not treating you as a factory.Askling for direction help, toughts way of approach.I ve uploaded the files.There are the script and methodts I ve already done.I did not postet code samples because it has some specifics.You need to see the script file to understand that.

I ve managed to make a turning movement with the combination of a movemetnt forward and rotation but it looks very ugly

I ve combined 3 movement(move forward) sequentions with changet parameters + rotatation and the whle turning action consumed 3 steps and looks pretty ugly I would send the code but to see the result you need to paste into the script and start up my scene. IF you really need to see a bit of code as equivalence of effort here it is.

Code:

if ($scene_id==0) then 

  if(MoveObject1($auto1,0,-1,0,6)) then $scene_count=0;      $scene_id=1;    
end 
end

  if ($scene_id==1) then  if(CameraDirection($auto1,1,1,-25,30))||(MoveObject2($auto1,-0.4,-0.35,0,6)) then $scene_count=0;      $scene_id=2;  
  end
end
i
f ($scene_id==2) then   

 if(CameraDirection($auto1,1,1,0,1))||(MoveObject2($auto1,-1,0,0,2)) then $scene_count=0;      $scene_id=3;   

end 

end

MoveObject = moves object in given direction
CameraDirection = is for camera orientation but it can be aplied on any object (model) in the engine.

and scene Id is self explanatory if scene 1 is done skip to scene 2 etc....

But as I ve mantioned IT is not the best solution

SO I am asking for help.

Ruby scripting a movement in engine

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