"onnolaserhit"

[electronicboy]

it would be nice if there would be an "onnolaserhit" which performs the opposite of "onlaserhit".
this would be useful in the process of e.g. making realistic infared cars cars in the q-steer collab.
and would obviosly help in a lot more areas as well e.g. the algodoo computer collab.

[Kilinich]

How you expect it should work?

[electronicboy]

basically if a laser its runs onlaserhit
if no laser is hitting it then it runs onnolaserhit

and another suggestion would be laserhit change
which if the state of a laser hitting it changes e.g. a laser is shining at an object then it stops then a "onlaseroffhit" ( obviously a better name for it would be used) would be run and obviously one for vice-versa

[Versieon]

This sound a lot like the onIdle suggestion, where a script is run all the time. You could ask in the onidle if a laser is hitting and get the same result as onnolaserhit, but with many more aplications.

[Kilinich]

basically if a laser its runs onlaserhit
if no laser is hitting it then it runs onnolaserhit

and another suggestion would be laserhit change
which if the state of a laser hitting it changes e.g. a laser is shining at an object then it stops then a "onlaseroffhit" ( obviously a better name for it would be used) would be run and obviously one for vice-versa

You mean to make some event occurred on first frame than laser didn't hit something after it hitting something??? It sounds nutz but actually you can do it with semi - transparent prism and scripting

[Sonic]

This could cause massive lag if the script runs every step of the simulation.

[standardtoaster]

Perhaps you would be able to adjust the frequency?

[KarateBrot]

This could cause massive lag if the script runs every step of the simulation.

but only if there's A LOT of script. functions in the console are updating instantly at any time too but although it doesn't lag so i think it would work just fine without lags.

[Sonic]

What if you set it so that onnolaserhit it spawns a circle? That means every step you'll get another circle. Pretty soon you'll have 1000-2000 circles.

[standardtoaster]

I'm pretty sure that it would be common sense not to put something that could potentially crash Algodoo as a script there.

[Fujitsu]

What if you set it so that onnolaserhit it spawns a circle? That means every step you'll get another circle. Pretty soon you'll have 1000-2000 circles.

What's the difference between that and a beacon that spawns circles?

[standardtoaster]

That's a really good way to put it! That would make beacons use even less collisions!

[electronicboy]

the main use of this would be to set a variable to something if a laser is hitting and object and another if it no laser is hitting.

[niffirg1]

Didn't Standardtoaster or some suggest something like this. I believe it was Onidle

[standardtoaster]

Yes, I did suggest that a while ago and a few people supported it.