Spawning at entityID?

[mold999]

Is there any way to spawn an object at another object, that has a changing position?

I've labelled the object that the newly spawned object will be spawned on "geom", in "materialName" of the script menu. I've tried

{...
pos = geom.pos
...}

and

{...
pos = geom
...}

and

{...
pos = [geom.pos[0], geom.pos[1]]
...}

and also

{...
pos = entityID.theentityidgoeshere
...}

But with no effective results.

Any ideas?

[hiltropper]

you could do it the classic way and set a scene.my.var for the geom pos this will be the easiest way i think. you know how to do that i guess ?

[monstertje3]

if you put a laser on the movable object (attach it so it will always hit the object)
then in the laser(onlaserhit) something like
scene.my.pos=e.geom.pos;

then in your spawnscript
pos:=scene.my.pos

note:
geom-geom collision uses e.other and e.this
laser-geom uses e.laser(<== not sure about this one) and e.geom

[mold999]

Last i checked the laser didn't count as "hitting" an object it was attached to. If I put a laser on a circle, it will go through the circle. This might not happen anymore, I've been away for a while.

[tatt61880]

Is next scene what you would like to do?

Thyme spawn object example

tatt61880

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[s_noonan]

Add the following to an onLaserHit event:

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(e)=>{
    scene.my.pos = (readable(e.geom)).pos;
    sim.time - scene.my.oldTime > 1 ? {
        Scene.addCircle({
            pos := scene.my.pos;
            radius := 0.062500000
        });
        scene.my.oldTime = sim.time
    } : {}
}


[mold999]

Is next scene what you would like to do?

This will be an attempt to show you what I mean:

[] = Object 1
{} = Object 2
||-- = Laser



||----------------- []......................{}

and now it spawns object 1 in object 2's position

||----------------- []......................{}[]

And I want to be able to move object 2, and for this to still work.

Also, I'm a little confused about how readable comes into this?

[s_noonan]

Initialize the following in the console:

Scene.my.theBox := 0;
Scene.my.oldTime := 0;

setup a laser,circle,box,laser like this:

||--------O..........[]--------||

code in left laser:

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    sim.time - scene.my.oldTime > 1 ? {
        scene.my.oldTime = sim.time;
        Scene.addCircle({
            pos := (readable(scene.my.theBox)).pos;
            color := e.geom.color;
            radius := (readable(e.geom)).radius;
            vel = [0.00000000, 0 - 1.0000000]
        })
    } : {}


code in right laser:

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    scene.my.theBox = e.geom;
    scene.removeEntity(e.laser)


Notes:
1. Readable is used for variables that can't be read directly.
2. scene.my.theBox is an object variable that contains all the properties of the box.

Regarding "And I want to be able to move object 2, and for this to still work.":
The code above will work if one or both objects are moving, but if you would like to control the exact position of the box, then you will probably need to use version 2.0.2 b15. If you move the box with the Controller, then the code above will still work.