Scripting Assistance

[Someone1]

  On 12/21/2015 at 9:02 AM, BigBizkit said:

Sinus and cosinus are my old archnemeses from math class, so I cannot help you with that.

 

It depends on what you want to do, obviously, but personally once I have more than 2-3 objects that need to be placed in a specific relative position, I'd rather combine them all into one nif. Makes positioning easier.

 

Well atleast you're honest lol. I do understand what you're saying about the nif though, but it won't work in my situation unfortuanetly

 

  On 12/21/2015 at 10:11 PM, Mattiewagg said:

OnLoad on the explosion placed marker would be best. It will place the marker as an explosion invisibly where the spell lands, and as soon as it is placed/enabled/loaded, you can just move the object to it quite easily. As for the circle, you can just look up coding a circle around an object. Should be easily convertible to Papyrus.

I'll try the OnLoad and see how it goes. I already looked up a circle around object and what I have is the closest thing I can convert it to. I'm not sure if I have the math messed up or if the coding is messed up, if that makes sense. If you can find a sample code that's better than mine, let me know.

 

 

Edit 1:

Just an update if any future onlooker takes interest, the code that I was able to get working is posted below. Granted, with the radius of 600, you only get a semi circle with 32 instances of doors. Space between doors can be changed if needed, or more doors can be added too.

Scriptname _TeleportDoorMarkerScript extends ObjectReference

Door Property TeleportDoor Auto
Activator[] Property EffectSummonBanishFX Auto
ObjectReference[] Doors	

Event OnInit()
int i = 0
float orbitangle = 0;
float orbitradius = 600;
float cX =self.GetPositionX()
float cY =self.GetPositionY()
float cZ = self.GetPositionZ()
Doors = new ObjectReference[32]
While i <32
    ;Self.SetAngle(0.0,0.0, Game.GetPlayer().GetAngleZ() + 90)
    ;Self.PlaceAtMe(EffectSummonBanishFX[i])
	Doors[i]=Self.PlaceAtMe(TeleportDoor)
	;Doors[i].PlaceAtMe(TeleportDoor)
	Doors[i].Enable()	
	orbitangle += 360
	;Debug.MessageBox("The" + i +"X" + self.GetPositionX())
	;Debug.MessageBox("The" + i +"Y" + self.GetPositionY())
	float newX =orbitradius*math.cos(math.degreestoradians(orbitangle))
	float newY =orbitradius*math.sin(math.degreestoradians(orbitangle))
	;Debug.MessageBox("The X " + self.GetPositionX())
	;Debug.MessageBox("The " + i + " test " + test)
	;float x = cX + (orbitradius*math.cos(math.degreestoradians(orbitangle)));
	;float y = cY + (orbitradius*math.sin(math.degreestoradians(orbitangle)));
	;Debug.MessageBox("The new " + i +" x " + xtest)
	Doors[i].MoveTo(self,newX,newY,5,false)
	i+=1
EndWhile
 ;Self.DeleteWhenAble()
EndEvent

Disregard all of the semi colons, they were testing sections.

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Edited December 28, 2015 by Someone1

[Someone1]

Quick easy question, hopefully.

 

Is there a good way when spawning multiple objects to have each of them face at a certain point.

For example I place a xmarker down in the center, then all the objects spawn around that center point, and then all of the objects will face that center point.

 

I thought I could just do it by using the GetAngleZ approach, but that quickly failed.

 

Any suggestions?

 

 

 

Edit 1: got it to work a lot easier than I imagined. Oddly enough, papyrus doesn't have a atan2 function but no worries, it has something better. The code below got all my objects to face the target regardless of where they were in the circle.

	NewAngle = Doors[i].GetHeadingAngle(self)
	Doors[i].SetAngle(0.0,0.0,NewAngle)	

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Edited December 29, 2015 by Someone1

[Someone1]

Is there a (good/easy) was to make a object point at a reference point (via set angle maybe)? Say I have a door that I summon and I put it 100 meters away from me both in the X and Y plane but it also goes 100 meter up (z direction). I there a good way to have the door (any object for that mater) face the reference point via setAngle or other command? (trying to avoid atan2 if possible)

 

for future onlookers, I found a decent way out to achieve what I wanted. The code is below, comment or message if there are any questions, but the code below is obviously not cleaned up so disregard that

Weapon Property CircleWeapon Auto
Activator[] Property EffectSummonBanishFX Auto
ObjectReference[] Doors
ObjectReference[] Doors2		

Event OnInit()
int i = 1
int f = 1
int orbitangle = 0;
int orbitradius = 1000;
float cX =self.GetPositionX()
float cY =self.GetPositionY()
float cZ = self.GetPositionZ()
Doors = new ObjectReference[125]
Doors2 = new ObjectReference[125]
float NewAngle = 0
int highth = 10
float RollAngleX
float RollAngleY


While f < 20
	if f < 20
	orbitradius=orbitradius - 50
	highth = highth + 50
	else
	orbitradius=orbitradius
	highth = highth
	endif
While i < 64
    ;Self.SetAngle(0.0,0.0, self.GetAngleZ())
    ;Self.PlaceAtMe(EffectSummonBanishFX[i])
	Doors[i]=Self.PlaceAtMe(CircleWeapon)
	;Doors[i].PlaceAtMe(CircleWeapon)
	Doors[i].Enable()	
	orbitangle += 360
	float newX =orbitradius*math.cos(math.degreestoradians(orbitangle))
	float newY =orbitradius*math.sin(math.degreestoradians(orbitangle))
	
	
	Doors[i].MoveTo(self,newX,newY,highth,false)
	NewAngle = Doors[i].GetHeadingAngle(self)

	float PosDifferenceZ = ((self.GetPositionZ()) - (Doors[i].GetPositionZ()))
	float PosDifferenceY = ((self.GetPositionY()) - (Doors[i].GetPositionY()))
	float PosDifferenceX = ((self.GetPositionX()) - (Doors[i].GetPositionX()))
	
	float xandy = math.sqrt(math.pow(math.abs(PosDifferenceX),2.0) + math.pow(math.abs(PosDifferenceY),2.0))
	float angleneeded = math.atan(math.abs(PosDifferenceZ)/xandy)
	float LocalX =angleneeded
	float LocalY =0
	float LocalZ =NewAngle
	float AngleX = LocalX * Math.Cos(LocalZ) + LocalY * Math.Sin(LocalZ)
	float AngleY = LocalY * Math.Cos(LocalZ) - LocalX * Math.Sin(LocalZ
	Doors[i].SetAngle(AngleX,AngleY,NewAngle)
	
	i+=1
EndWhile
	f+=1
	i = 0
EndWhile
 ;Self.DeleteWhenAble()
EndEvent

Edited January 6, 2016 by Someone1