I have been developing a dungeon crawler and I am developing a system of attack from the war battles tutorial however using my own assets, I have used the code, whilst removing the explosion function as that would not be neccessary in my game. However, when I am pressing space, no swords are spawned. I have ensured that the z value of player is 1 whilst the sword is 0. Any ideas on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated, here is my code:
Only thing I can see is that self.dir is reset before being passed to the new sword object. Could the sword be spawning underneath the player?
I think it could be, though I have set my player sprite to z: 1
Update: I added a sword.go to the collection to see if it would disappear on space. I ran a test and when space was pressed, the sword did not disappear until the self.life flag was at 0, therefore I can confirm that the code may be faulty for factory.create. Any suggestions?
here is some more of my code
local speed=100
function init(self)
msg.post(".", "acquire_input_focus") -- tells object to listen for inputs
self.input=vmath.vector3()
self.dir=vmath.vector3(0, 1, 0)
self.current_anim=nil -- stores current animation
self.health=40 -- tracks health
self.max_health=100 -- tracks max_health
self.speed=100
self.throwing=false -- sets attack to false, can be turned true with a space input
end
function final(self)
msg.post(".", "release_input_focus")
end
function update(self, dt) -- allows player position to be updated
player_pos = go.get_position()
if vmath.length_sqr(self.dir) > 1 then
self.dir = vmath.normalize(self.dir) -- normalises direction vector - allows for diagonal movement
end
local pos = go.get_position() -- fetches the new position
go.set_position(pos + self.dir * speed * dt) -- sets new position
local anim=hash("knight_idle")
if self.dir.x ~= 0 then -- check if vectors are not 0
anim=hash("knight_run")
elseif self.dir.y ~= 0 then
anim=hash("knight_run")
end
if anim ~= self.current_anim then -- checks if animation is the same
msg.post("#sprite", "play_animation", { id = anim }) -- plays new animation
self.current_anim=anim -- changes id to new animation id
end
self.throwing = false -- sets flag to false - changed each time space is pressed in inputs
if self.throwing then
local angle = math.atan2(self.dir.y, self.dir.x) -- computes angle of player
local rot = vmath.quat_rotation_z(angle) -- Creates a quaternion for angular rotation around Z.
local props = { dir = self.dir } -- creates a table to pass onto
factory.create("#swordfactory", nil, rot, props) -- creates sword when input is pressed
end
self.dir = vmath.vector3() -- holds direction vector
if self.health <= 0 then -- checks if health goes to 0
go.delete()
end
end
function on_input(self, action_id, action)
if action_id == hash("up") then
self.dir.y = 1 -- Up movement
elseif action_id == hash("down") then
self.dir.y = -1 -- Down movement
elseif action_id == hash("right") then
self.dir.x = 1 -- right movement
elseif action_id == hash("left") then
self.dir.x = -1 -- left movement
elseif action_id == hash("throw") and action.pressed then
self.throwing = true -- sets flag to true
end
end
function on_message(self, message_id, message, sender)
if message_id == hash ("remove_health") then -- listens for damage
self.health=self.health - message.amount -- subtracts health by amount
health_lost=message.amount -- Determines damage taken
msg.post("/UI#main", "remove_health", {amount=health_lost}) -- sends message to gui telling it to subtract from health
end
if message_id == hash ("add_health_small") then -- listens for on_message
self.health=self.health+40 -- adds health
if self.health > self.max_health then -- checks if health goes over max health
health_calc = self.health-self.max_health -- calculates health that needs to be subtracted
self.health=self.health-health_calc -- subtracts health by the calculation
msg.post("/UI#main", "fix_health", {amount=health_calc}) -- communicates change to UI
end
if self.health <= self.max_health then -- checks if health is below max health
msg.post("/UI#main", "add_health_small") -- sends message to UI telling it to add health
end
end
if message_id == hash ("add_health_large") then -- listens for on_message
self.health=health+80 -- adds health
if self.health > self.max_health then -- checks if health goes over max health
health_calc = self.health-self.max_health -- calculates subtraction required
self.health=self.health-health_calc -- subtracts health by max calculation
msg.post("/UI#main", "fix_health", {amount=health_calc}) -- communicates change to UI
end
if self.health <= self.max_health then -- checks if health is below max health
msg.post("/UI#main", "add_health_large") -- sends message to UI telling it to add health
end
end
if message_id==hash("contact_point_response") then -- detects contact
go.set_position(player_pos+message.normal*message.distance) -- corrects position
end
if message_id==hash("add_speed") then -- listens for collision from speed_potion
self.speed=speed + message.amount -- adds potion's value to speed
end
end
local damage=15 -- damage value to be sent to a target
go.property("dir", vmath.vector3()) -- defines dir and initialises default empty vector
function init(self)
self.speed = 200 -- speed value of sword
self.life=1 -- sets time until sword will disappear
end
function update(self, dt)
local pos = go.get_position() -- get current position
pos = pos + self.dir * self.speed * dt -- calculate new position based on old position + direction and speed
go.set_position(pos) -- sets position
self.life = self.life - dt -- decreases life by delta time (per 1 second)
if self.life < 0 then -- runs if life = 0
go.delete()
end
end
function on_message(self, message_id, message, sender)
if message_id == hash("contact_point_response") then -- if contact with enemy or walls is detected
msg.post(message.other_id, "remove_health", {amount=damage}) -- sends damage to collided object
go.delete() -- deletes object
end
end
I know that the issue is with the spawning in of the sword, the sword itself works fine
The second argument, which is nil, is the position of the sword. Since you are not providing a position, the sword will get the same position as the game object containing the factory. Is this what you want? Is it ok for the sword to be at this position?
That is my intention, yes.
Ok, then I have no idea what’s wrong based on what I’ve seen. Can you create a minimal example project and share it here?
This if statement in the player script will never trigger, since self.throwing is set to false immediately before it.
I changed the position of the false statement to the bottom of update, changed the z value and it works perfectly, thanks for the help.