Video tutorial incompatability. (LUA)

[hislittlecuzin]

I was watching this tutorial about a trigger that teleports players to a respawn point to mock a falling to one's death and respawning.

 

 

I noticed 2 differences which may or may not be problems. First in the code:

 

My code:

Script.respawnPoint = "" --entity "Respawn Point"
function Script:Collision(entity, position, normal, speed)
if(entity:GetKeyValue ("name") == ("Player")) then
 spawnPos = self.respawnPoint:GetPosition()
 entity.SetPosition(spawnPos)
end
end

 

his code:

 

Script.respawnPoint = "" --entity "Respawn Point"
function Script:Collision(entity, position, normal, speed)
if(entity:GetKeyValue ("name") == ("Player") then
 spawnPos = self.respawnPoint:GetPosition()
 entity.SetPosition(spawnPos)
end
end

 

As you can see in line 3, he lacks a second paranthasis after

("player")

 

A second difference is in my steam edition (which was claimed to be compatable) I am lacking some physics functions.

 

I have:

Physics mode;

collision type;

Mass;

Character angle;

Swept collision;

Nav Obstacle;

 

He has:

//all of that;

 

and shape functions such as:

shape;

shape offset;

shape rotation;

shape size;

 

 

What is wrong with my code? Everything else is exactly the same. Does his shape thing mean anything?

[Slastraf]

Script.respawnPoint = "" --entity "Respawn Point"

function Script:Collision(entity, position, normal, speed)

if(entity:GetKeyValue ("name") == ("Player")) then

local spawnPos = self.respawnPoint:GetPosition()

self.entity:SetPosition(spawnPos)

end

end

[macklebee]

A second difference is in my steam edition (which was claimed to be compatable) I am lacking some physics functions

While Jorn's videos are great, you must keep in mind that they are not official tutorials provided by Leadwerks. The date of that video was from last Summer, since then Josh has made several tweaks to the editor including removing the Physics Shape from an object's Physics Properties tab. This now has been replaced by using a visual Physics Shape that is built into the Model Editor as shown in the official Leadwerks tutorial about Models and Animation under the Collision section.