Avatar warping, or: Is "FlipAge" still available?

[tachzusamm]

I was thinking about warping the avatar from one location to another, because I would like to have a room "somewhere else", far away from the region where you enter it passing a door.
Like it was done in Gahreesen when entering the fortress.

I found these posts, where an example from Nadnerb was mentioned, called FlipAge":
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1818&p=19121&hilit=flipage#p19121
and
viewtopic.php?f=59&t=1499&p=15325&hilit=flipage#p15325

but I can't find this "flipage" example.

Nadnerb, do you have this example still available somewhere, a link maybe, or a copy on your harddisk?

Or could somebody tell me how an avatar can be warped?
(I already managed to warp objects, but I don't get the idea of how to pass an "avatar id / name / object" to python - because the avatar is not available in Blender as an object to reference via AlcScript.)

[diafero]

Python code to warp the player up by 10 feet:

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        avatar = PtGetLocalAvatar()
        xUserKI.WarpObjectRelative(avatar, 0, 0, 10)

I hope this helps

[Lontahv]

Python code to warp the player up by 10 feet:

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        avatar = PtGetLocalAvatar()
        xUserKI.WarpObjectRelative(avatar, 0, 0, 10)

I hope this helps

The problem I see with that code is that it is dependent on the UserKI code (which some of us do not have installed). Here is some stand-alone code:

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avatar = PtGetLocalAvatar()
avatar.physics.netForce(1)
avatar.warpToObj(theEmptyObjectYouWantToWarpTo) #Scene object passed here with pythonfilemod refs


[tachzusamm]

Thanks to both of you; it really helps. I get it now: "avatar = PtGetLocalAvatar()" just gives an object having a coordinate interface like any other "actor" object. Cool.

I think I will try both versions (with and w/o the UserKI) - just because I'm interested.


By the way, would generally a construct like:

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try:
    xUserKI.SomeUserKIFunction(object)
except:
    object.AlternateFunction()


work? I assume an exception is raised when trying to call a not available KI. If true, which exceptions are raised? (if this matters)
(Currently I don't have a client installed without a UserKI to try this out)

[Sirius]

You can also use it this way:

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# global variables
canUseKI = True
try:                 # try to import the xUserKI script
    import  xUserKI
except ImportError:  # if we can't, then we'll use our own function
    canUseKI = False

# blah blah blah...
# OnNotify, or something like this:
if canUseKI:
    xUserKI.SomeUserKIFunction(object)
else:
    self.SomeFunction(object)

This way it will try to import xUserKI to use its function, else it will use your own function. But the best way is to use your own script function, this way it will work even if the KI is not here/broken/whatever else.

[diafero]

I just referred to the User KI code since I remembered tachzusamm used that as starting point for his python object warping, so he knew that function and I had to copy'n'paste less code . Of course you should copy those few lines of code to your file if you're really going to use it.