Check for Motion/Movement

[flo123]

Hey guys!
Has anyone of you had a situation, where you wanted Playmaker to check if there is a movement on an object (not player) going on, and if so, do XY (play animation/sound)?

I tried to come up with something that stores the position each frame and compares it with the one from last frame, but I could not get it to work.

Any suggestions on this?
Thanks!
Flo!

[jeanfabre]

Hi,

 yes, you are going in the right direction. You need two vector 3 variable, the current position and the last position you detected movement.

1: get the current position
2: compare with the last position, if different, fire an event AND set last position to current position.


 Bye,

 Jean

[flo123]

Thank you very much for the instant response!
That is exactly what I had in mind (more or less hehe) - now, as a newbie, I just struggle with how to compare the vector3 variables with each other.

I thought about converting the variables to strings or something, to be able to compare those, but I can't find any apropriate Action for that.

Feel ashamed for asking again...
Sorry and thanks!
Flo

[jeanfabre]

Hi,

 to do that, you would use "vector3 operator", get the distance as a float, if that float is greater then say 0.1 ( give it a bit of marging, it's more predictable), using "float compare" action, then you know if the object moved.

 Now, IF your object is a rigidBody, simply get the velocity and simply use "get speed" action and compare the speed against 0.1 as well.

 Bye,

 Jean