Explosion Youtube

fullviewmedia

Hi all,

I have watched the video on creating an explosion and it works well with all of my actors except 1 (the main character), when the character is near the explosion the actor is drawn towards the explosion not moved away. This does not happen with any other actor and the settings are duplicated.

Does anyone else have this happen?

Thanks

POM

I dont know what method you use for this cause i dont see your rules , but here is an advice that might work:
in the actor the pulls toward instead of away , there is a rule for this movement , and i guess that this rule has an equation , try to add *(-1) to it to reverse the rule.

Roy.

Piero1987

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fullviewmedia

Hi tshirtbooth, I think it was your video on youtube, logic is:-

if distance from blast is less than 300
change velocity
(vectorToAngle(-( game.blastx - self.Position.X ),+( game.blasty - self.Position.Y )))
rotate to angle
(vectorToAngle(( game.blastx - self.Position.X ),-( game.blasty - self.Position.Y )))

change atribute
magnitude( game.blastx - self.Position.X , game.blasty - self.Position.Y )

This may have come from an old video

Thanks

JOhn

fullviewmedia

Found the video

fullviewmedia

Sorry there is a + sign which i added to see if things changed, is was a - and is a -

fullviewmedia

Can anyone shed some light on this. Can you tell me if the code I used in the video is still relevant?

Thanks

fullviewmedia

I kind of get what your saying but I am also confused by your comment

"In the change velocity behaviour you have
speed
400*(game.distancefromblast*4)"

I have the following which came from the video and seems to work ok in the video

change velocity
(vectorToAngle(-( game.blastx - self.Position.X ),+( game.blasty - self.Position.Y )))

It also works well on other actors, maybe i'll wait for the updated video, it will be something I am doing somewhere else maybe and i'll just need to read through the code again.

Thanks

forklift

The problem is, in the video the change velocity in the box actors is set to actor. Set it to scene and they'll always blast away from the bomb. What's happening is some will rotate and use the velocity of its facing direction. When it's set to scene, they will always use the direction of facing away from the box.

forklift

PS. Thanks for all your awesome tuts, tshirt!

fullviewmedia

That was it, dam spent hours on that watching the video over 20 times thinking I must be missing something. Not knocking the video got me 99% there.

Thanks

John