Thing Diary/To Do

The Thing Growing - Diary and ToDo List


Feb 27	timing of finis - and global action comes a bit too soon when fourthing killed ? or when one escapes - especially the latter - fix in fourthing script - or put a silent first action in the finis Action stores! just in finisAcouple and finisFour somwtimes a bit slow when the things escape - I'm not convinced that we are getting a reaction as soon as all have either been killed or escaped - added escape message to the fourthings timesup triggers but I only check in the doHitChecks section of tgShootThings - add it to the doChecks functions although I really mean the timing of each action plus all the AS of thing - not to be lying on back at wrong moments! I liked the first action in finisAcouple - maybe we reuse it! anomolie - I got into the finisState before the last one had run out - I think I need to lengthen my timesup! the fourthing timeup triggers weren't sending their messages! OK I put actions in finisAcouple check - are they a good length? - yes check - global body - what to do! - getinface is a little in front and to the left and faces - I drew a pic for self Tried using gloatpos - which is good but can go outside the arena - hmm - shall I let it be for now? now I need to make another getinface but with reversed rotation! - finisface its sort of OK - ish - but if I run in a circle I seem to get the back of the head - -might also be tooclose - sso needs checking in the cave/idesk finisNone check length of each action - ok check gloabl body - okish - perhaps we need another thing that's not gloatpos but is walking away? finisFour check length of actions - ok check global bod - second was was odd I expected the freedom turn - but I had removed that action - hmmm Add extra action in killed three - to stop it instantly saying - so you're bloodlust is over The thing is much too high up - does this simply mean i make its path to the floor go down further? Ands sometimes its not - its up for gloatpos and down for finisface - at least when I did finisFour it was ! arghhghg - also it has that irritating bob up and down thing made shorter = 4! what will that do ? may mean changing the avDCS paths but if it helps the rest - so be it! these seems to fix the bob - now the thing seems short - and so I could change it in th avDCS to ground path? nb - just noticed that in thingscene I rotate the gloablbody by 180 degress - so its no wonder that in this scene all the globbod things are working 180 of what I expect - hmmm - if I ended up the avDCS path at 180 all would be fine! Still to check if thing is lying on back when its behind the user - it shouldn't be! I put in a couple of actions in the killed_three action store to make sure it didn't start talking too quickly and now I don't hear it talk at all timing from finis to exit must turn gun off appropriately if user times out/exitTwo sometimes I'm getting to finisAcouple before they're all dead - is this the timer or is this another problem? Continuing GB probs FinisFour and ExitOne - the thing is backwards - check the globalbody poses - I may be in serious hoo ha cos when I went from finisAcouple it was the right way around go from finisNone is this random or what? or what - if I look at the thing - it turns as the cave turns and is not keeping in front of and pointed at the person - no idea why this has been working up til now at all - when behind it should just have the same orientation as the user OK now I'm going to make the last two scenes which we will pop to at the end of our current scene made exitOne scene added exitscript to thingscene with all calls to end it all and turn on the exitOne scene - hmmm remember to turn off the fourthingscene - or should I just do it here in the exitOne? - for now I will Timing seemd ok but... I'm missing the maniacal laugh - cuts too soon - no its just missing! I put in a different sound and that also cuts out - what am I doing? when I turned everything off I want things to be dark and they were blue - if the thingscene holds the BEGIN script info this will be avoided - but I do need to make the earthsky blackneed to check where/how these scenes are turned on the fog is still on in the next scene - changed the script file exitOne narration is too quiet - turned to 0.5 for the other one I need to turn the original scene back on without resetting it the thing scene - need another dance action timer the plain scene can scenes fade in and out? made the samrocks into walls
Feb 26	Yesterday going out to dinner and getting a headache I started to feel better and looked at the global body stuff - thought I'd worked out how to get stuff in ther objects own system - but when I test I do not find I am being successful and any transformations over the object are effecting the place it goes to relative to the user my seond hack to avoid getting into this is to just send a message which tells it where it is! - no that won't work - I am lost. - what I want ids the first calulation of get right to use as the initial value of its calculation the place where the ting now is I put in another path that returned the rotation in the avDCS to 0 and this seems to help a lot now have to fix the fact that we do not "fall down" with the thing! If I look at the numbers it starts at 5 and drops to -9 - or from 3 to -3? so is it still being affected by the avatarDCS z transformation - why when the others are OK? tried taking out the normalize etc and no dice - still staying up in the air I'm also seeing that dip as the thing goes between changed from userPos to navPos and we ran all over the shop so does this mean when I do stay close - it won't! ie now we can't use navpos put in get in faces and its still up in the sir and I don't believe turning to get in the face either I think I've hacked it must horribly - by adding two more paths - one for the thing to run behind - did it? - triggerd by the pick up one for it to go down - triggerd by the cageshot worried that the cageshot triiger can retrigger? - I disable d the trigger now the get in face is the wrong way round but the getbehind is wonderful - I think I'll need some global actions for run away - hang around etc - tried using turnaway - run to roc etc - but they are liked and we do a go down after the runtogrock - how is that possible - I see it called so it seems to be - plus we ran right out of the area! urg must take out the actions with the thing lying on its back as it runs around behind! Doing stuff with the fourthings made separatre quiet things and taunt triggers made all run actions 1 sec-ish made taunt soundbites start immediately one fthing does not scream - cockney three Still getting thing saying things from the taunttwo action store - I put a cout in the brain to print if we are in that state but I see nought! - how is taunt called? finis is called in an event message* message sent by shootThings changed the message to thingTaunt still I hear these message - they must be duplicated somehow - no they only exist in the tauntTwoAS when I let it run all through - and I want the store to play I see the couts in the code when these actions play uninvited I do not see couts in the code - can it be that the taunt AS is somehow accessing and playing them? yes I had two tauntTwoAS's - urgh I heard "you're getting quite a taste for this " ie killed three and then get after them you cowards - not good\ so the killed events also need to change the eweight in shooting - this doesn't seem to be happening - actually it could be happening and then getting changed back - ie if we are still in the first time thirs - then it would change - let it stay for now! its also strange when you've just killed 3 and if your not shooting cos your're not near the last one - you so soon get the "so your blood lust is dying down" remark if I take the close = 0 out of resetFlags - would that fix this? I could also add another silent action into the killedAS's so that the not shooting stuff didn't kick in too soon However there is a problem - if during the time we shoot one thing and the ahit flag is on we also hit another thing - ie I want a second flag that keeps us in the "hit" state, but I still need to be able to tell is a hit is coming in - so I addded another flag - so kill me! I think this is good enough - I've checked once - now it just needs more checks thing three does not scream at death audio file exists but is in lure store? - fixed because we do not interrupt with the hit message immediately - because I don't want the thing shouting hooray the fthing screraming and the gun going odff at the sawe time - I'm sometimes getting the thing shouting that you've missed just as we in fact are hitting - how to fix? just put in another silent action store that goes for however many secs before the kill but then we have time for another action to occur before we get the reaction from the hit changed tgShootThings to reset ahit only after the whole action store is emptied! sound crack as cageshot - things shouts hooray fthing reenter - turned gun force field sound down to 0.2 - down to 0.1 gun must paly stop play start
Feb 25	made a new source directory - where I will begin experiments on the new movement classes finish putting in things speeches etc Now to check it all ! - existance of soundbites gun sound is not happening - fixed did the imagun happen? - yes I heard the beginning of finisNone - then I time out - but the timer is 30 secs and I seem to be timing out in about 11 secs? - cahnged it to 60 secs and I got taunts Did I hear the subsequent taunt? I heard two of the thing's taunts - right at the beginning - how was that - just as I was about to shoot the things also I ran so fast that I started to shoot them before I'd got through some other speeches - and this screwed stuff up too I do think the fthings reactions must be instantaneous I'm not sure we are going correctly to the sad reactions after 3 have been shot - check the code - it seems we're still yelling kill jkill - actually they are all checked off - I think I need to change how this comes downs timing
Feb 24	feb 22 recorded all the remaining soundbites feb 23 topped and tailed soundbites realised I hadn't changed the samples to 32000 - so I made newfiles new.blah at the correct sample rate - so now I have to take the old files out of the bak up and change all the file names I just put in! - first check they are really at the right rate!!! put soundbites into fourthingscenetwo - check so far I'm not convinved the fourthing taunts should wait a second it also seems possible to interrupt them in a way that's not good they come onto the scene too slow - what calls them? - OK I made them faster and I put back in the RUN scream - but it may be a little too queer Now put in the Thing's speeches - check all tomorrow I put in things speeches up until finis - need also to out in gun and narrator
ToDos	Need to FIX that avatar DCS /rock mess NB - xpTimer NOT as a pointer - maybe this will fix some of the wackiness in timing stuff Is initializing the frequency in flasher to 0 a problem? Fix cage fall path make it work from start to finish turnoff fourthingScene/turnon fourthingtwo scene make walls around arena and menhir objects walls PointatTriggers can specify distance navOn after cage falls scripts in init positions transition from first to second scene - soundbite + model + scene two "exit" scenes with any language they need cometoHand globallbody Don't forget to take couts out of tgShootThings When the real actions are recorded we may have to fiddle with timing of such things as thing saying get 'em, fourthings arriving thing saying "great" fourthings screaming as they die Also will have to check sounds levelss reset() change floor model - or change black thing to green transition scenes have to be made - could just fade to black for now make video
Feb 19	check Finis need exit conditions timesup thingiskilled - ie a switch goes off - body only! - a blam goes on forgot to put the new actionStores in the brain's parse options Checked all finisNone - check finisFour - check finisAcouple - check beg/tauntTwo - check exitOne - check exitTwo - not working - it wasn't sending the righjt messages But Now the whole thing is fucked! - we are not getting the hit messages - not getting Great!, just getting first button and don't you want to escape ie shootCageAS - seems to have something to do with hitting the second button and dropping the gun? - but why? we'r getting out of "shootingthings" state into a diff brain state and so not getting into any of the shootingThings states OK the grab on the gun object was causing us to go to the shootCageFirst brain state - now I've put that on the same button two message that is the gun getting picked up, in a switch which is then turned off also getting a weird soundbite "You're go" interering with notmoving (which I want to make on a smaller trigger incidentally) make list of other todos list of sounds and soundbiters needed fix globalbody - one thing is that I believe it zeros out the z, so we stay stuck up in the air - rather than being on the ground - I also have to add running away and taunt distance behavior
Feb 18	FYI the things sequence of events incageAS - last thing it says is "pick up the gun - middle button" - actionInSeq, at end goes to: -> pickUpGunAS - random action until: gunscene detects the pickup ->interrupt/shootcagefirstAS (maybe a little delay/silent action to let the gun get to the hand) - actionInSeq, at end goes to: ->shootCage - random action until: gunscene detects cage shot ->interrupt/cageshotAS (Maybe a cheer, then a little delay/silent action while we fall and fthings come out - actionInSeq, at end goes to: ->shootThings, starts at notmoving - now instead of sending messages to change the brainstate (brain_purple), we are also sending messages to the shootThingsCL thingsceneTwo has the "notmoving" trigger for the shootThingsCL, which is turned on by gunscene when caveshot detected - so we could have moved out of this space during the cageshotAS and never trigger this behavior the chasingThingsTrigger is also turned on when caveshot detected - this will send a "shooting" message to shootThingsCL, whenever button1 is pressed the timeTriggers for shootThings are also started when caveshot begins the fourthingscene detects when the user is "close"/"notclose" and when the user has killed one of the fourthings "hit" - and sends messages "close" results in the thing being quiet - quietAS, is there an interrupt message here? No. "notclose" means the class checks to see if shooting is occurring, if not the thing exhorts the user to shoot - notShootingAS "notclose" and "shooting" means the thing checks for hits, if not exhorts appropriately - missingAS "hit" messages lead to killedOne/Two/ThreeAS - first very happy, then also congratulatory, third moreunhappy - with an interrupt message to the brain - sent from fourthings scene "escaped" messages - sent from fourthings scene oops its possible that, if we shoot the thing just as it escapes, we will get both the escaped and the hit messages - drat! - disable each of the fourthings invisibleSwitch/pointatTriggers if the user is close as the Things escapes the fourth hit leads us to finis we also need an escaped message - and to put in the code if killed_ plus escaped >= 4 -> FINIS Need to add the timers and timer messages - where to put - in thingsceneTwo - these change the eweight seems to me that both missing and notshooting should change by eweight - make it so so now need to put an action of each eweight flavor in these two action stores - I do not think this is properly checked make sure the timers are sending their messagess we are not getting the finis messages killed four and saw 4 killed message killed three and one escaped - no message killed 1 and 2/3 option appeared - which is actaully right need the escape messages to be delayed until the escape is effected 1/3 time 3 killed "first button" and "wasn't right" - correct 2/3 time and 3 killed "nono " "middle" - correct killed three and saw 4 killed message - I will turn off the invisibleSwitch/PointatTriggers so that they cannot send another hit message - still getting another hit message the gunflash is switching the invisible trigger on again so what I need to do is to disable the actual pointatTriggers make timesup Timer sa bit longer Add Finis add eventOccurred to shootThings - shot_none, shot_four, shot_couple add FINIS_NONE, FINIS_FOUR, FINIS_ACOUPLE, BEG, TAUNT_TWO, EXIT_ONE, EXIT_TWO states to the brain it made but I did noty check it at all
Feb 17	notmoving - needs to start on and not turn off until we get out of the nomoving zone - which seems too big, still might want this to be more about the user moving too muching! fixed newBrain so that caveshot finished and automatically goes to shoot_things now 2 options are working not moving hit I delayed the things "great" reaction to a hit so that the fourthing has time to scream - rather pedanticvally waiting exactly the same time - depending on the scream length - the things comment should come a bit quicker also need to have a visual sense of the things sticking behind us - at the moment its facing the wrong way! now getting, not shooting missing needs an eweight - now its working but I may want to put some silent options in the notshooting and missing categories its incredibly annoying! later the thirds and twothirds timers are meant to adjust the eweight some timing issues shootcaveAS not "interrupted" quick enough - where is this called - we may have to put a "quiet" action into the caveshot action store to help the timing between fourthings returning and thing saying get them pick it up ditto (which first or subsequent?) - where is this called time the things exhortation to get the fthings and the 4things returning into the scene better
Feb 16	nb - don't know why the messages don't simply call setState with the appropriate state!! - it does seem silly but I think I'll leave it did I finish adding shootThings in the brain? - think so but I did not add any FINIS states need to test the shootthings class and the actions stores see belows added AS(sounds and actions) see file for soundbites needed pickupGun shootCage First shootCage cageShots added shootThingsClass to scenefile its state starts out as NOT_MOVING until something alters it - which could be one of the things getting close! put in a notmoving user trigger close - in the 4things userttriggers - but this gets reset in the class and will this be a problem? also need to interrupt brain_purple - instead of resetting it each go around I will make it have to sepcifically reset - ie by another call - notclose shooting - in the script_gun (don't want to effect shoothing class too soon) - the shootingThings Trigger is enabled after cave shot is called in gunscene ahit - in fourthingsclass - interrupt and change shoothings state nb two things don't turn off when they escape *you can adjust length of the pointattrigger*
*Feb 15*	Really do need to fix cometohand etc - in cave I had the gun grabbed all wrong! - I think I need to not make it a grabber! Also globalBody States still a problem!! haha I decided that shootThings needs to be a subclass and maybe I'll have anothe subclass - finale and that maybe we also need a pre-shoot cage or a shootcage first line Making a tgShootThings class also a tgFinis class (maybe) Have chmoded the Makefile and tgWorld to add the new class need to check the eweight char strings doEndChecks need to put in eventOccurred messages - which will tip off the next part of the brain - hmmmm - and it will set its state accordingly need to send brain interrupt message - or return action_ with NULL which I think I can only do if I make a state to do so. need to do something similar for doHitChecks, killed = 4 need to decide how to calculate "moving" need top decided if FINIS is a whole other class or can it be AS's in the brain need to check this stuff without having to go through endless other stuff to get to it! did I finish adding shootThings in the brain?
Feb 13	tackle cometoHand - don't really know what to do - seems to work ok in the real scene - but only ok - not perfect! - plus i do not seem to get the same mistakes - so I left it alone lets temporarily add the runaway scene don't forget you'll have to turn navon after the cage falls the gun appearing should be delayed a second - done add a globalbody DCS to the thing and a getbehindUser option in globalBodyDCS - loos ok in testscene Doesn't look OK if I add it under avDCS try over - oh I didn't tell the brain what globalbody to use! Now it runs through the user - I think we'll have to move the thing to the side and then behind! - with the current code it goes to the front facing sideways and then to the back through the user - is this cos its effected by the avatarDCS transforms or is it plain wrong? I'm a bit scared to change things that already exist and are working at least somewhat - but I think any rigourous-ish testingof the globalBody would reveal some big problems! A rough test shows that the getright and gertbehind are working so lets say "pick it up" and move back and to side of user on a path? - first attempt not too successful - maybe I could just hack the getright so it does got to the rigth place? fix the global body so it works - hack or whatever lets leave this hard task til Monday and simply make ActionStores added pickupGun - the first pick up speech will be inincage AS - then we'll go in here until the gun is picked up shootCage - I may also need a first speech for this - followed by shoot shoot CAVE_SHOT -a hooray when the cage is hit followed by a now get those pesky things - shootThings - when not too close to any of them Quiet - hopefully when others are speaking! I will then add stores for the why not shoot me etc Should all/any of this go into subclasses? NB Beginning to think how this coud or should be streamlined - ie all these functions are pretty much the same - either insequence or random and then some instruction on what to do next - or sometimes not - its seesm that it should be possible to feed arguemtnst to one function not repeat andrepeat
Feb 12	why is taunt crashing - fixed I think don't turn triggers on until things arrive - I do not know why the timetriggers are working - are they defaulting? why doesn't thing1 have a user trigger around himself? nb - I can run outside the sky and then I'm stuck out there cos the wall is on! - may need some collision stuff to add to this heavy scene! the run state probably need to be interruptible so that we get to the die or taunt sounds in a timely manner - especially die! - also the taunt state - use the brain interrrupt message! - so change the state and send interrupt message! I need a short scream that starts absolutely instantaneously - but it may have to be 1-2 secs long for us to hear anything! - good maybe the personal triggers have to be a little smaller? - or maybe not now they seem hardly to talk at all - I changed it from 20 to 15 screams, taunts cometoHand must still be fixed! don't forget you can now specify a distance for the pointattrigger - it defaults to 10 but I believe my "gunflash" is about 15 - so I may want it also to be 15!
Feb 11	fedexed the SIGGRAPH entry - Michelle has the fedex form to Maria Schweppe RIT checked on Idesk - fine - but not spectacular? - now check in stereo! can't make a die path - cos I don't know where the things are so simply switch off thing switch on thing "bits"/kaboom event at pointof intersection I thing I will have to put an invisible object in the same area as each thing - with a pointattrigger around it - and a switch that switch on when the trigger is pulled - and off otherwise - if we get a pointatEvent we switch off that thing made gunscenetest - to test this with gun - so if I change stuuf it has to get back into the real gunscene!!! I made a simple kaboom - if I want a more complicated die I will have to put the switch more particularly around the body - will the simple/short version do for now? I could make a more stylish "boom" model instead of just using the heads scaled up! now make this for all the things or put in the local body behavior calls first for one guy - this measn putting a usertrigger around the guys - and calling Taunt - I need to do this somwhere that I can hear sound - die Action is just a short scream! - but I need to be able to intterup to get the scream to happen before we disappear! OK - For LocalBody I put in in spaceTimeSwitch_4 - "brain_, taunt" & "thing_,off,5"* plus one other thing? under specific avatarDCS of each thing in pointatTrigger "brain_, die & "thing_,off,0.3" in userTrigger "brain_, taunt" & "brain_, run, 2" For the global dying behavior I put a switch around each thing - to turn it off - thing_* under thing's avatarDCS an invisible object, under a pointatTrigger under a switch - to tell brain_* to die and thing_* to switch off if intersection with gunflash occurs - the switch makes this only operate when the gun is flashing a "blam" object to turn on at this die moment a userTrigger to tell when user is near and tell brain_ to taunt* In the place where the gunflash is called I must call these pointatTriggers Now I've put it all in and it crashes! gunscene runs OK fourthingsceneTwo with all but one thing removed crashes fourthingscene with all of them in crashes foursthingscene.bak runs lets take out all the message calls to the brains (OK that seems to fix it lets add back in the gun - OK lets slowly add back to braincalls - I added 1 and 2 fine but with 3 I start crashing - took out three usertrigger - fine - now will try with repeated use of button 2s - yes it the button 2 that is screwing things up and I get the "illegal instruction" messages all four things with brain messages in and doing fine and now its not again - we have a bus error - when I get into the usertrigger to call taunt - so need to check out run and taunt functionscrashing Added a gunscript to call FIRE nb cometoHand is fucked does not always come I'm getting an "illegal instruction" message if I hit button 2 again and we're dumping
Feb 10	put in triggers for 3 and 4 thing4 trigger 2 is positioned so that its very likely that we will run into it if chasing 1 and 2 - and trigger it before that thing has arrived causing an anomaly! - changed it - I guess this is very likely to happen in other cases too unless my choreography timing is very tricky may have to either put them in a common trigger they're clustering or keep triggers further apart but still as the user criss-crosses the terrain can very probably hit the wrong trigger thing3 I suspect is not trigger timing properly need to see what it feels like on the idesk make death paths add gun and pointattriggers/switches for death add the local body / sound stuff triggers - which should call taunt state whenever we hit a trigger and a few seconds later call run Realized at 11th hour that SIGGRAPH deadline was today, put in the online submission and got together the support materials
Feb 9	make runaway! paths for all things with usertriggers problem - what if the thing hasn't got to its last position and then the time is up and the escape path executes! Need to trigger with time and with space - and need to turn off the other trigger Dave made a timeTrigger which I put under a switch with the space trigger and so if either triggered the switch is turned off Need to start the timeTrigger as appropriate nb - make the pillars and the sky-wall !in this scene collidable thing1's paths and triggers are done!!! thing2's paths and triggers are done!!! made paths for 3 and 4s looked at both 1 & 2 - they kinda run on a bit too similar paths? are the triggers going to effect each other? - yes cos I start up with them all active - oops - but I think that's OK cos they'll all immediately run to their first positions and it would be unlikely for the user to get to the trigger first? the "getBehind" will eventually be triggered by the user picking up the gun - but for a test I will put a getbehind globalbody movement in the incage action store - doesn't work inside avatarDCS - try outside? next I will make a pickUpGun, shootCage and shoot4Things AS
Feb 8	made fourthingTwo scene I think I will need a series of new ACTION STATES etc REENTER, RUN, TAUNT, DIE - but it becomes clearer and clearer that there should be a better way to do this - replace TRAP and PLOT maybe need a testgunscene to test this running on paths behavior do a bACKUP I believe in setstateRUN I'll need a eventoccurred - so if we get through all the REENTER actions and into RUN, we can tell the path - otherwise the Running will start if the user gets too close- any other eventoccurreds? I will need to switch off the fourthing scene and turn on the fourthingsceneTwo It feels as if I'm very far when I enter at 28! - need to look on desk fourthrun path of One he's going backwards - still all wrong also they're going faster than me! maybe I need a bit more speed! checked on desk and fixed the entry point for reenter *I still do not like the path of the cage - I fall too fast! - maybe it has to plummet downwards first*
Feb 8 PLANS	I was sick til now check Siggraph entry date I think its the 20th added pointatTrigger for cave - had to add extra switch need to look at all this on idesk - check is it possible to lose gun? need to turn navigator on. I need to add behavior to the Thing for the final scene which will be triggered by event messages and by the user's behavior? Should it be another class like teachdance? Or just getRandomAction ActionStores pick_up_the gun - until gun picked up get_them_get the bastards - exhort/encourage (random actions only a few spoken words?) - for a time period don't be a chicken get them - taunt ( if time runs out - fourthings need to escape) then you're hopeless why didn't you kill them - you have no guts - put that gun down - middle button - put it down - you won't put it down - what are you going to kill me now? you haven't the guts or - we're freee - free from those, from those, arrrrghh you've killed my cousins - heartlessly, oh you beast, you beast - I suppose now you want to kill me (in sequence) - cries - just put that gun down - put it down - use the middle button plead for life (random) taunt -so kill me if gun put down - "laugh - I knew you couldn't bear to kill me - now you're mine for ever-" revert to plain if trigger pulled - "laugh - fades to "It's not so easy to escape" -> I found myself back on the plain - there was a shed in the distance - I knew my choices - I could go to the shed and release the Thing - or I could stay on the plain - alone - forever. I also need a new GlobalBody behavior - hide behind user - maybe hide on a pillar? No then couldn't the user get it? I also need to add the 4thingbehavior - on paths for now? - also called by event messages re-enter "what's going on!"- "Arrgh! They have a gun!" - "Run away run away" taunt speeches - if user close - called by? - a userTrigger - called once to change to this action store but them we need a lull - make it interruptible ie immediately change back to running mode what stops us then retriggering - make one trigger for each of them, which is then turned off you wouldn't dare leave us alone coward moron betrayal! poltroon you meat bitch run_away - no speech if user far - just reuse any motions die - scream for each one make very simple paths at first just running on straight lines! with a final path that runs them back out of the place (ha ha - this took days) also pointatTrigger for die behavior I believe I can make this as a separate scene for testing, ignoring the thing, and then hook them together
Feb 2	Anyway - (cont from Feb 1st) it gets complicated cos the grab is automatische on button2 and in trying to fire the gun, the user is inevitably going to hit that button and drop the gun - so I have changed the class so what comes, sticks on the hand until explicitly told to "stay" - seems to work OK The gun does not rotate up and down with the wand - only side to side - how does the grabber do this? - uses a matrix - blah blah To avoid entering this I could make right button pick up (if I could get the delay to work - middle button drop - left button shoot - would be needing to check all buttons to see what the user had done - hmm have asked Dave for help Figured out that I was using delay wrong - so I now have the comeToHand only moving the object and then the grab taking over But it doesn't come nice and square onto the hand - spin longer - no change added guncomeSwitch and gunFlashSwitch that can turn on button operability as required problem now can't regrab - urg - is there a eventoccurred in grabber i cna use? Yes drop - added switcvh that grabs when its dropped make separate gunscene Meanwhile let us: Make the gunflash flash on button 1 Make the cage and AvatarDCS - with a cageshot behavior - done but needs modification use a pointatTrigger to tell the cage that it needs to curl up and die! - message to this will need to switch with the flasher Need also to use the grab eventOccurred - the Thing will exhort the user to pick it up until this grab - thingvoice needs: pick it up (various) blast this damn cage -left buttom (various) Also eventOccurred when blasting is done! - how?
Feb 1st	I don't want to wait for the thing to shit etc so call gunshit from button comment it out as eventmessage in thing this isn't working OK the grab grabs in the simulator, but the bounding box is enormous cos of the gunflash- hmmm I don't want it to be - can I grab it on idesk - no so I need to make a class for the gun that makes it hop onto the end of the user's wand - also needs to say only if a condition is met can it fire - only ifGrabbed - isGrabbed exists as part of grabber and I guess as part of object make a ComeToHand class - and Dave will add a message to grabber ->grab, somewhere in hre I'm not sure how this works used an xpTimer (NOT a *xpTimer) - is this where my other timer problems are coming from - ie shouldn't be using them as pointers? OK I added the wandDir_ info - but I think I may want the gun to have its 0 0 0 at the end of its handle Also it seems I can't delay the grab message to take effect when the gun has arrived - maybe I can send an event message from the gun - or am I clicking again - thus dropping the object? (cont'd Feb 2)