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[CrimsonTurtle8]

Can you automatically move primitives around smoothly the way FP could? I saw a tutorial in the forum to rotate a primitive one tick every few milliseconds and looping a Timer to keep rotating it. I got that to work fine. So I assume based on this post that you can't just say Primitive1.TransZ = 200 or whatever and get it to smoothly slide over? FP must have interpolated those frames in some way, but it seems like with VP I have to move the primitive a tiny tick at a time for every single motion I want it to make? That's fine, I guess. Just a pain. Right now, everything is instant. Which is also fine and functional, just a little tacky. Thanks!

[unclewilly]

It depends on what you are doing. I made a table that had a primitive afm ship that would follow an invisible ball around the playfield controled by magnet objects using a real-time timer set to -1 and updating the primitive coordinates to the balls coordinates.
So it really depends on what you are doing.

The original shake for the main afm ship jp did using a hidden ball under the apron and shaking the ship based on the ball position.
There are a lot of ways to make th8ngs move smoothly it just depends on what you are try8ng to do

[bigus1]

Add a Timer1 to the table, not enabled with interval 10.  Interval changes the speed of movement.

Add a thing for a trigger and the code below will move prim1 smoothly across the table to x of 800 when hit.

Make sure prim1 has an active material and static rendering unticked.

 

Sub thing_hit:Timer1.enabled = 1:end sub

Sub Timer1_timer()

prim1.x = prim1.x + 1

if prim1.x >= 800 then Timer1.enabled = 0

End Sub

[boriskarloff]

Yes, use a timer. Best solution, maybe the only

[CrimsonTurtle8]

Add a Timer1 to the table, not enabled with interval 10.  Interval changes the speed of movement.

Add a thing for a trigger and the code below will move prim1 smoothly across the table to x of 800 when hit.

Make sure prim1 has an active material and static rendering unticked.

 

Sub thing_hit:Timer1.enabled = 1:end sub

Sub Timer1_timer()

prim1.x = prim1.x + 1

if prim1.x >= 800 then Timer1.enabled = 0

End Sub

 

Thanks, this makes a lot of sense -- namely the > symbol stopping it once it reaches a certain value. I have them at Z 200, so i was worried I'd have to figure out a way to carefully time it to stop them from moving once they got where I want, but I can just end the timer at 200. I appreciate the help!!!

It depends on what you are doing. I made a table that had a primitive afm ship that would follow an invisible ball around the playfield controled by magnet objects using a real-time timer set to -1 and updating the primitive coordinates to the balls coordinates.
So it really depends on what you are doing.

The original shake for the main afm ship jp did using a hidden ball under the apron and shaking the ship based on the ball position.
There are a lot of ways to make th8ngs move smoothly it just depends on what you are try8ng to do

Yeah the example I first saw was Austin Powers spinning in sync with the spinner, which blew my mind. I have no use for that, but it is cool that you can link a primitive's motion to other things.