Hi all!

Since I have switched engines to EE recently, I have had to re-do a lot of things. Luckily with relative ease.

Fortunately this means that I have been able to rethink a lot of my systems second time round and it has helped me get better solutions. I won't bore you with text I'll just show you straight out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...VDN6GcDXxI

How does everyone else approach triggers in EE? I'm just interested to spark some discussions.

Hi there,
cool vid.. Why didn't you use points and a flat square dynamicly gen via code, size etc passed by params.
I guess having a 3d object gives you more better collision detection.

You sound ozzie to me! I'm in melb.

I loved the video. I thought you did a really good job of explaining and i think it looks very good. Thanks for contributing!

I need to say that your game looks very cool, can't wait to see more of its gameplay

(02-18-2013 04:39 PM)gwald Wrote:  Hi there,
cool vid.. Why didn't you use points and a flat square dynamicly gen via code, size etc passed by params.
I guess having a 3d object gives you more better collision detection.

You sound ozzie to me! I'm in melb.

One reason would be that I didn't think of that and the other reason would be that I want this trigger to be usable in just about every situation that you might need a trigger. I'm not sure if I could achieve that with that method you explain.

Hehe yes I am Aussie. I live on the Gold Coast

@all thanks for the feedback

Cool video, good explanation of how it works. Could I based on this to implement trigger system in my game? Currently I open gates basing on distance of characters but it isn't efficient because I have to check all characters distance

(02-25-2013 02:37 PM)Harry Wrote:  Cool video, good explanation of how it works. Could I based on this to implement trigger system in my game? Currently I open gates basing on distance of characters but it isn't efficient because I have to check all characters distance

Go for it

Thanks

Your video is really good! You are also very good at explaining things. Keep it up!

Thanks Shatterstar,

Recently I extended my Triggers into a derived SightBox class for my game. My game has a lot of stealth elements that I want to be very rigid and not wishy washy I decided to use actors for it. Have a look:

Long Winded Explanation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhR2go--EtE

Short Showcase:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaUb23hP9...e=youtu.be

Of course there is more on my blog which is in my sig. peace out.

I have to implement something similar in my game, what you have done seems pretty efficient.
Do you intent to release your Trigger object class source code ?

Maybe, we'll see. I'd have to make a tutorial for using it because it relies on a singleton manager class in addition to the trigger object so it's not 100% obvious.

That would be very useful