I stumbled onto some problems in order to make my carBall scenarios, so here are the questions to unstuck me : 1- How can I reset the vehicles, especially on a multiseat scenario ? ( get them at a certain position and rotation with zero speed and not broken ) 2- At the end screen of a scenario, how to show a custom bar that counts the points ? For example, I have a lua script that increase a counter each time the ball get through a trigger. How do I show a progress bar at the end of the scenario with the score of the counter ? 3- Is there any function to wait a certain amount of time ? For example, once a trigger is enabled, I want the game to wait for, let's say, 1s before resetting all the vehicles. Spoiler: Hacky-theorical solution I though it could be possible to have a box prop outside the player range, that could be teleported at a certain height on trigger of the event, and when the box has dropped a certain distance, it will go through another trigger that will execute the action to do after the wait. For obvious reasons I would like to avoid using this solution, as it uses a lot of computer resources to simulate the box.
For #3 there are multiple options. I'm assuming that you need your timer to work in GE lua, not Vehicle lua - right? a. In GE lua you'd assign a function to onPreRender, the hook will pass the delta time since the last onPreRender(). (in Vehicle lua you'd use updateGFX() instead) - https://www.beamng.com/threads/time-lua-in-scenarios.30497/ b. Use a timer. In GE lua you'd use hptimer() but in Vehicle lua you'd use HighPerfTimer(). I think that both of them use the same controls: Code: local myTimer = hptimer() --gelua local myTimer = HighPerfTimer() --vlua print(myTimer) --now myTimer:stop() myTimer:reset() myTimer:stopAndReset() For #1 here's what I've got: https://www.beamng.com/threads/player-car-in-scenario-changing-id.29100/ be:resetVehicle(0) --for GE lua, just resets the vehicle and fixes damage I think, probably to the vehicle's "home" location? TorqueScript.eval('getPlayerVehicle(0).setTransform("-400 -200 0.5 0 0 0");') //I'm afraid that the last 3 numbers are supposed to related to rotation, but seem to be broken currently (initial rotation is kept). Previously there was a bug with this where if you set rotation it would respawn/heal the vehicle. Rather than using TS (via TorqueScript.eval()) you can use something like this in GE: be:getPlayerVehicle(0):setTransform(scenetree.findObject('thePlayer'):getTransform()) The last example will teleport one vehicle into the space of the player's initial vehicle (in freeroam). Of course in a script you can assign stuff to variables, shuffle things around, etc.
Thank you very much for these explanations. I will try to apply them to my scenarios as soon as I've figured out why almost all of my lua triggers in these scenarios have stopped working ( I guess a dumb syntax error is hidden somewhere ), and then I'll get back to you, but it might take some time.
You're welcome! I apologize in advance for any sloppy code / bad advice. ;-) Just now I went back and updated the myTimer examples because I apparently didn't paste or type exactly what I wanted in there. You'd stop mytimer by using something like myTimer:stop().
