Limit Value Range?

[VFB1210]

Hey all, I'm trying to make a Thyme gearbox for just for fun, and I'm running into problems. Its supposed to be a manual transmission, and my way of making it work as such is to have a key bound variable, in this case tran1, have a range between 1 and 5; representing, of course, gears 1st through 5th. I have been using this if statement:

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TranLims = (tran1)=>{tran1 > 5 ? {tran1 = 5} : {tran1 < 1 ? {tran1 = 1} : {}}};

to limit tran1's range to between one and five. My problem, it's not working. No matter what I can still make tran1 greater than five and less than one. Can someone please show me a working code and explain to me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks!
-Jake

[tatt61880]

Hey all, I'm trying to make a Thyme gearbox for just for fun, and I'm running into problems. Its supposed to be a manual transmission, and my way of making it work as such is to have a key bound variable, in this case tran1, have a range between 1 and 5; representing, of course, gears 1st through 5th. I have been using this if statement:

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TranLims = (tran1)=>{tran1 > 5 ? {tran1 = 5} : {tran1 < 1 ? {tran1 = 1} : {}}};

to limit tran1's range to between one and five. My problem, it's not working. No matter what I can still make tran1 greater than five and less than one. Can someone please show me a working code and explain to me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks!
-Jake

At first, when you declare new variable, I recommend to name your variable as "Scene.my.***" (For example, Scene.my.TranLims).
This is not only for your script but for every scripts.
When you declared TransLims (without Scene.my.), the variable will be saved on config.cfg not in scene file.

Your code doesn't work because your code doesn't mean changing real trans1 (argument) but changing pseud trans1 (parameter) in your function.

== Exact code of the function and how to use it ==
1) Declare the next function.

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Scene.my.TranLims = (tran_)=>{tran_ > 5 ? {5} : {tran_ < 1 ? {1} : {tran_}}};

Note: tran_ is a parameter for this function.

2) Declare your variable, for example "Scene.my.tran1".

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Scene.my.tran1 = 10;

3) The function "Scene.my.TranLims" can be used as below.

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Scene.my.tran1 = Scene.my.TranLims(Scene.my.tran1)

The code above substitute 5 for "Scene.my.trans1" (because 10 > 5).

I hope my explanation is OK.
-Tatt

P.S.
Welcome to this forum.

[VFB1210]

Hey, thanks for the help and the welcome! Sorry I haven't been able to reply for a while, I've been busy with school work. I appreciate the help, but I'm still not entirely understanding what I am supposed to do, and my attempts to figure it out on my own aren't working. Could you tell me the exact code I should use? Assuming that the variable I am using is Scene.my.Tran1, so this time it gets saved to the scene...

Thanks!
--Jake

[tatt61880]

Hey, thanks for the help and the welcome! Sorry I haven't been able to reply for a while, I've been busy with school work. I appreciate the help, but I'm still not entirely understanding what I am supposed to do, and my attempts to figure it out on my own aren't working. Could you tell me the exact code I should use? Assuming that the variable I am using is Scene.my.Tran1, so this time it gets saved to the scene...

Thanks!
--Jake

I've edit my post for exact code.

[Kilinich]

I've use this one:

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scene.my.minmax = (x,min,max) => {x < min ? min : {x > max ? max : x}}

[VFB1210]

Thanks, but I'm still having trouble. Every time I enter the code

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scene.my.minmax = (Scene.my.Tran1,1,5) => {Scene.my.Tran1 < 1 ? 1 : {Scene.my.Tran1 > 5 ? 5 : Scene.my.Tran1}}

it tells me that there is a parse error and that I'm missing a period somewhere.

[Kilinich]

You get all wrong.
I've give you code for declare function scene.my.minmax, which you can use in your scripts...

for example:

scene.my.minmax (15, -1,10)
gives you 10

scene.my.minmax (-15, -1,10)
gives you -1

scene.my.minmax (5.4, -1,10)
gives you 5.4

if you want to increase value to the limit just enter
scene.my.value = scene.my.minmax (scene.my.value+1, 0, 100)