Re: [Supertuxkart-devel] Unexpected Behavior when scripting with Action Triggers

[M G. <aur...@gm...>]

Hi,

this sounds like it could be a genuine bug, The best thing to do would
be to open an issue on github (and if you have a fix, you can submit
it there too as a pull request)

-- Auria

On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 2:17 PM GumballForAPenny
<gum...@fi...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have found that Action Triggers give unexpected results in scripting.
> If you believe this should be fixed, I can try and fix it myself.
>
> -Action Triggers appear to return the kart_id of the camera's kart, not
> the kart which caused the trigger. This value is unexpected in any race
> with multiple karts.
>
> -While this is unexpected, I can work around it in my add-on track by
> iterating over all karts and checking if their location is inside the
> radius of the trigger.
>
> -The unexpected behavior could actually be beneficial to me as there is
> currently no other exposed way to get the local player's kart in a
> networked match.
> Hi all,
>
> I have found that Action Triggers give unexpected results in scripting.
> If you believe this should be fixed, I can try and fix it myself.
>
> -Action Triggers appear to return the kart_id of the camera's kart, not
> the kart which caused the trigger. This value is unexpected in any race
> with multiple karts.
>
> -While this is unexpected, I can work around it in my add-on track by
> iterating over all karts and checking if their location is inside the
> radius of the trigger.
>
> -The unexpected behavior could actually be beneficial to me as there is
> currently no other exposed way to get the local player's kart in a
> networked match.
>
> (If someone else wants to try and fix it first, that is ok, although I
> request that some proper way to find the local player's kart is exposed
> to scripting)
>
> code reference:
> |  src/tracks/track_object_representation.cpp
> || void TrackObjectPresentationActionTrigger::onTriggerItemApproached()
>
> Once again, thanks for everything!
>   GumballForAPenny
> (If someone else wants to try and fix it first, that is ok, although I
> request that some proper way to find the local player's kart is exposed
> to scripting)
>
> code reference:
> |  src/tracks/track_object_representation.cpp
> || void TrackObjectPresentationActionTrigger::onTriggerItemApproached()
>
> Once again, thanks for everything!
>   GumballForAPenny
>
>
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