Leadwerks Soldier Entity- and 3rd-Person Game Scripts

[Masterxilo]

I finally did something interesting with the soldier model. And learned lua!

I wrote an entity script for the model, that loads all the animations for it, creates a character controller, and lets you control it through simple messages

(which will also make the animations change).

The only thing left to do is controlling it with an AI script or through keyboard commands in a game script.

 

I did the latter and wrote another (3rd person) game mode for Editor that features the LE Mascot.

Here's what I came up with (soldier entity script & game script):

 

Files

For simplicity, I packed up only the required and converted files + my scripts of the soldier model and uploaded them again:

http://leadwerks.com/werkspace/index.php?/files/file/141-leadwerks-soldier-animated-entity-game-script-3rd-person-cam/

Simply unpack the zip in your model folder, open LE Editor and a map in there, set your game script to "soldierGame.lua" and hit Ctrl+G to run around in your own map with the model!

 

Since I'm still working on the scripts (and since they contain some additional descriptive text on the subject), I'll post them here too:

 

Scripts

Entity scripts

<removed it, too long, see "soldier.lua" in the zip>

 

Game script

<removed it, too long, see "soldierGame.lua" in the zip>

 

Images

 

Feel free to use the scripts as you like.

I just thought I'd share because I think I found good ways of handling (any amount of!) animations in lua and also a good way of controlling characters over messages.

And because another game mode is always fun to test maps.

 

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Btw.

This model can be used as a game character just the way it is in any non-lua language easily, due to it's message based control system.

Here's what I'm working on:

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- Paul

[Pixel Perfect]

This looks really cool! Thanks for sharing. Downloading now.

[Marleys Ghost]

Works very well Paul, nicely done thanks for the share.

[Flexman]

Not played with it yet but cheers.

[Pixel Perfect]

Having tried it out I'm really quite impressed. The model and animations are of a nice quality; so thanks to Josh for providing these and also to both the original modeller and subsequent animator. Thanks to Masterxilo too for sorting out the animation issue, the gmf conversion, providing the nice demo script and packaging it all up ... much appreciated.

[Quan]

Looks great, downloading now.

[David Will]

When I load the script the character appears to be floating quite high, haven't edited anything- just loaded with recent version of Leadwerks. Any ideas?

[Flexman]

Maybe you've fallen through the ground? When you run the script and the camera is positioned close to the terrain it can drop through.

 

It's a great script, quite complex. I just added a third person cam to my game and using a place-holder but I might try using this with the soldier for now.

 

I notice that LODs in Leadwerks don't like animating in LUA, I suspect you have to interrogate the currently used LOD level and animate that mesh instead.

 

You can try it yourself by commenting out the call to the 3rdPersonCam function and move the character away. I have the same behaviour in static vehicles/objects that rotate child entities (tank turrets and such).

[carlb]

when you say the recent version is that the 2.32 beta or the normal 2.31

if beta then i would say it could be a bug and you should not use till it released

 

if 2.31 not sure lol

[David Will]

Well, i've tried it on a few versions now- whatevers downloading through the update application and a version I downloaded about 3 months ago.

[Stewie]

Has anyone else had any problems getting this to work in LE 2.40? I'm having no luck at all getting the model to animate, the 3rd person cam works fine and the character model loads, but no animations.

[Wchris]

Has anyone else had any problems getting this to work in LE 2.40? I'm having no luck at all getting the model to animate, the 3rd person cam works fine and the character model loads, but no animations.

I confirm, got the same problem here with 2.4, the soldier moves but the animations don't play.

But the code is really interresting, thank you for sharing masterxilo, i'll try to learn something

[macklebee]

The soldier.lua file is using

function object:Render()

This has been replaced in 2.32 to use

function object:Draw()

[Stewie]

Works great now, thanks!

[Wchris]

The soldier.lua file is using

function object:Render()

This has been replaced in 2.32 to use

function object:Draw()

Thank you mack, it works now after replacer render by draw.