Syntax: setMotion

[JRedant]

I'd like if there was a book or PDF that has the syntax available, instead of having to scratch around for it.

So what is the syntax for setMotion?

So far, in the tutorials, I see:

setMotion(Follow gEgo 15)

and

setMotion(MoveTo 180 150 RoomScript)

What I want to do is have an actor avoid the gEgo.

[MusicallyInspired]

Heh, we'd all like some solid documentation on the syntax but none exists. All we have is the SCI Studio help file and the limited tutorials that Brian made, some others that troflip made, and still others that we've all pitched in on the SCI Programming Wiki by fooling around and experimenting.

There is an Avoid script, but I think it's unfinished. I can't remember.

[Cloudee1]

There is an avoid script in the companion template but not in the studio template. You would need to add it to your game if you started with the studio template which I'm pretty sure you did. Once it has been compiled as part of the resource.map you will need to include it in the use script section at the top. I don't remember the exact sysntax for it but I think there is a post around here that tells how, or maybe  the companion help file, but somewhere.

[JRedant]

Maybe we should need to start taking down a SCI syntax of what we know, and add to it as we go along? That would be a nice resource to have.

Edit: Cloudee, where would the Avoid script likely be? wander.sc, follow.sc, or Cycle.sc? I could just copy over the script resources from Companion. Worst case, I could copy all of them over from Companion, minus the rooms.

[gumby]

You must have simply overlooked it.  It's the Avoid.sc file in the SCI Companion template folder.

[JRedant]

Oh thank Christ! I could just copy the avoid.sc over, and that would be it? Are there other linking files, or header files I would need to replace as well? Of is it just avoid.sc?

[Cloudee1]

In whichever room you plan to use the avoid, up at the top of the script, where all of the (use "scriptname") stuff is, you need to include a statement to use the avoid script.

[troflip]

I'd like if there was a book or PDF that has the syntax available, instead of having to scratch around for it.

So what is the syntax for setMotion?

So far, in the tutorials, I see:

setMotion(Follow gEgo 15)

and

setMotion(MoveTo 180 150 RoomScript)

What I want to do is have an actor avoid the gEgo.

Just popping by and I saw this. setMotion doesn't have an explicit syntax other than the first parameter (which is the Motion class name).

The subsequent parameters are specific to the motion. setMotion just forwards them on through to a function on the Motion instance (I think maybe it's the init function?). So you need to find out what the parameters are for that function. The best way is to look at the source code.

For example, Follow seems to take a target and a distance. MoveTo takes an x and y, and a script to cue when its done.

I think the Avoid script is something different. It's not a Motion. It's a basic path-finding script that make the actor go around objects or blocked areas on its way to a destination.

It doesn't make one actor run away from another. I suspect you'd have to write your own script for that.