New Method Script Question

[fox11trot]

I am trying to use the new method to read the surfaces of an object but it isn't working.

Heres what I have:

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  e.other.surfaces := [[[0, 0]]];     app.step;     app.undo 

When a polygon collides with this object its surfaces = [[[0,0]]] instead of its actual surfaces.

[Ian151]

isn't there supposed to be a refresher for that?

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e.other.surfaces := [[[0, 0]]]

Refresher (preferably only lasers)

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app.step; app.undo

[Mystery]

You mean Method-X right?
Aye the code looks right there is no need for a refresher as the refresher is defined in the code.
The problem is the way surfaces is written up not [[[0.0, 0.0]]] but more like [[[ [0.0,0.0], [0.0, 0.0,], [0.0, 0.0] ]]]

[Versieon]

Exactly, i tried to do this but it didn't work for that reason, you have to difine how many places there are in the array, and there isn't a way to do that right now AFAIK

I made a scaner that replicates the object, but it creates a compleatly new object.

Polygon Scan/Create RESOLUTION

Versieon

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[Mystery]

Well might be able to make a code that could work out how many part there are in the array.

[Versieon]

I belive there is a way to find how long an array is, the problem is accesing it in the first place.

[Mystery]

I'm sure Grady has the script somewhere, he did a bunch of work with arrays back in the day.

[KarateBrot]

Yeah I once asked him about something like an array cell counter.
http://www.algodoo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1503#p15854

but like versieon said you first have to find the array and there's the problem. before you found it there's no way to count anything i guess

But i also tried it with a polygon where i know the surfaces of because i spawned it with a script. even for this polygon i couldn't find out the surfaces with this method. maybe it's not working for surfaces?


@Versieon
you still know when we talked about having 1 pair of brackets or two pairs of brackets around surfaces? well, you were right for surfaces. but there's another way to define the surfaces. you can do that with "vecs", too. and with vecs you only need one pair of bracket's around your points. everything else is the same. i only used "vecs" to define my polygons that's why i thought it is weird that you needed 2 pairs of brackets.

[Versieon]

Wow, thats wierd! Well thats good to know!!

[fox11trot]

yeah all this is good to know

maybe there is a way to count get vecs?
but you would have to count the arrays too