[WMCoolmon]

Well as far as I'm concerned, all scripting screen coordinates should be in absolute coordinates and if they aren't, it's a bug.

I doubt I'll have it fixed by 3.6.9 release, though, the branching thing has been an utter pain in the ass to work with. Before I commit anything more to that branch I need to set up another dev environment for it, I've tried having a separate branch on my HDD and it hasn't caught one completely by-itself difference in lua.cpp. I've already been yelled at for not test-compiling, after fully testing and test-compiling changes, because I let that one little bit slip through when I committed to the 3.6.9 branch.

[Nuke]

no need to rush with the scripting on my account though, i can only do bits ant pieces of what i wish to accomplish with it so far. made some intresting discoveries, like how to get a working mouse cursor on your hud. but i couldntget it to do anything cool like control a turret or point and click targeting. i thought about using render to texture to put a pong game on one of the screens in one of my fighters, and theres actually enough stuff to make it work too. but my real objective for today was to replace the lead indicator and reticle with a moving reticle like the kind used on 50s fighter planes. i managed to get an automatic target selector working and a cool little reticle which would be placed over the automatically selected ship. it doesnt lead yet, just sits on top of the target. i guess i can use it for beams . to make it lead i need a number of factors, player and enemy position and velocity vectors (wich i could figure out how to get), and the velocity and range of the player's weapons (which i could not find). that having failed i tried to animate it so it would return to the center when it didnt have a target and would move over to the target when it had one, but it wasnt very good and resembled something i did in highschool with vb. il have to take a crash cource in trig to get that to look smoother. i liked wat i accomplished even if it was practically nothing.

[Goober5000]

I doubt I'll have it fixed by 3.6.9 release, though, the branching thing has been an utter pain in the ass to work with.

Have you been making changes to both branches simultaneously, or have you been changing one branch and patching the other?

The latter is a much better method IMHO.  If there's a bug in 3.6.9, I fix the 3.6.9 branch, patch the main branch, test both, and commit.  I haven't found it hard.

What sort of problems have you run into?

[Nuke]

any chance we cant get a way to take a render from a camera object? i want a turret boresight camera to render to texture so you can have a screen in a virtual cockpit show you what your turrets looking at.

*edit

just incase you coders are woried that scripting is underused:

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,40912.0.html

[Wanderer]

So sorry about that... but i again encountered something where i need a little help...

Do these two really function? If they do what is the proper syntax for them...

sd.playGameSound()
sd.playInterfaceSound()

When i use those i get no errors at all but neither do i get any sounds either.

I tried all these

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sd.playGameSound("7_yes",0,100,0)
sd.playGameSound("7_yes.wav",0,100,0)
sd.playGameSound(7,0,100,0)

[Nuke]

So sorry about that... but i again encountered something where i need a little help...

Do these two really function? If they do what is the proper syntax for them...

sd.playGameSound()
sd.playInterfaceSound()

When i use those i get no errors at all but neither do i get any sounds either.

I tried all these

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sd.playGameSound("7_yes",0,100,0)
sd.playGameSound("7_yes.wav",0,100,0)
sd.playGameSound(7,0,100,0)

i think you got to use a sound.tbl numerical reference, rather than a wav file.

also has anyone managed to get gr.drawCurve() to work?

[WMCoolmon]

You have to specify the filename of a sound in sounds.tbl, sound indices won't work.

drawCurve, direction must be 0-3 for now.

[Nuke]

il try that one

[Wanderer]

You have to specify the filename of a sound in sounds.tbl, sound indices won't work.

OK, i tried that it after i added the the sound i wanted to the sounds.tbl and it works very nicely . I wanted to play speech things during the mission with scripts like automated background process to create both randomized event triggered (enemy death/missile launch etc.) and background chatter type radio noise. And now it even functions properly

[WMCoolmon]

BTW I added the Speed variable to the weaponclass, along with a few other of the easy-to-implement variables. Pending testing, it and some other values will go into post-3.6.9 CVS.

[Nuke]

that comes in handy for something im working on.