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PlayMaker Help & Tips => PlayMaker Tips & Tricks => Topic started by: pjrm1470 on September 18, 2013, 04:27:50 PM

Title: uniform movement [SOLVED]
Post by: pjrm1470 on September 18, 2013, 04:27:50 PM

I was wondering, How to build it to increasy speed like an engine?
Starting slow and increasy speed time by time until it get to the top speed.

Best regards,
PJRM.

Title: Re: uniform movement
Post by: Lane on September 18, 2013, 04:29:23 PM

Super easy. A Float is controlling the amount of power, so just use Float Add to increase it and Float Clamp to set a min/max value.

Title: Re: uniform movement
Post by: pjrm1470 on September 18, 2013, 06:29:17 PM

Quote from: Lane on September 18, 2013, 04:29:23 PM

Super easy. A Float is controlling the amount of power, so just use Float Add to increase it and Float Clamp to set a min/max value.

Correct me if I got it wrong:
So i have to set a proportion of 0 - 1 in the value of min and max speed based on the proportion of my variable value, right?

Best regards,
PJRM

Title: Re: uniform movement
Post by: Lane on September 18, 2013, 06:52:37 PM

Ah so you're looking for acceleration?

If so then you could use a float to represent the position of the motor between the minimum speed and the maximum and use that as a multiplier for the actual power output. So between 0 - 1 like you're saying.

In the input settings you can define the rate of increase/decrease for an input axis to somewhat control acceleration and use Get Axis to grab it, but this method won't scale with the project very well if you intend to control acceleration more precisely.

I haven't considered Acceleration much, really. It's something I'll get into soon.

Title: Re: uniform movement
Post by: pjrm1470 on September 18, 2013, 08:00:15 PM

Quote from: Lane on September 18, 2013, 06:52:37 PM

Ah so you're looking for acceleration?

If so then you could use a float to represent the position of the motor between the minimum speed and the maximum and use that as a multiplier for the actual power output. So between 0 - 1 like you're saying.

In the input settings you can define the rate of increase/decrease for an input axis to somewhat control acceleration and use Get Axis to grab it, but this method won't scale with the project very well if you intend to control acceleration more precisely.

I haven't considered Acceleration much, really. It's something I'll get into soon.

YA. I forgot about the sensitivity property. This should work fine for my project, although soon i'll need to build a acceleration control very precisely for a racing game.

thank you so much.
Best regards,
PJRM