Quick question about the first Truck splines on Gold Rush...

[Mateos]

Hello,

I was playing around with splines, found some quick way to place and link quickly several of them, then I noticed something different in the script, only on the first splines:

wait roll 0 2 dampin

I was wondering what this does exactly? Is it when the terrain where the Truck go is changing from flat to hill, and vice versa? Does it affects whole entity or just wheels if so? If not, what does this stand for? Edit: Or when the direction changes (Turn right/left, wheels only effect)?

Have done some searching here and on Google, no result, and SD wiki page about splines just explains the editor system, not scripting part

Thanks in advance

[ischbinz]

not sure if that helps:

http://wiki.splashdamage.com/index.php/Appendix_A:_Scripting_Commands

http://games.chruker.dk/enemy_territory/scripting_reference.php

never noticed that: dampin

gl

[Mateos]

followspline <direction|accum <buffer_index>|globalaccum <buffer_index>> <targetname> <speed> [wait] [length <value>] [roll <start_angle> <end_angle>] [dampin] [dampout]

This one is extending the syntax of followpath. In addition to a direction specified in the script, it can get its direction from either an accum or globalaccum register. It is also possible to specifiy a start and end roll angle.

The entity will be interpolated between these two during its movement. And finally you can use the dampin and dampout keywords in combination with roll to make the roll no-linear.

Seems to be this, thanks So it makes the movement less linear-looking.