Using player sit and lay animations

[BrandonReese]

I worked out a way to use the sit and lay animations on command

https://gist.github.com/Bremaweb/cd6b803dd4ef918acb67

[Krock]

It's a nice feature but there must be something easier than chat commands.

[BlockMen]

It's a nice feature but there must be something easier than chat commands.

There is: Use boats in Minetest NeXt

[Krock]

There is: Use boats in Minetest NeXt

http://i.imgur.com/76h2gLD.png

Perfect, I thought of something like this!

[BrandonReese]

It's a nice feature but there must be something easier than chat commands.

The chat commands were just an example. I use the chat commands in my game for sitting or sleeping wherever you want, but I plan on adding the option to click on furniture to sit on it.

[philipbenr]

Now, we can actually lay on beds and sit in chairs? Hopefully really soon... Nice work Brandon and Blockmen!

[spootonium]

I don't suppose anyone has created a "swim" or "crawl" animation, yet?

[Krock]

I don't suppose anyone has created a "swim" or "crawl" animation, yet?

Not needed, we've got a lay animation.

[BrandonReese]

I don't suppose anyone has created a "swim" or "crawl" animation, yet?

Not needed, we've got a lay animation.

A swimming animation would be neat with the arms rotating and everything. Where is Jordach? He could do that.

[philipbenr]

The swimming animation is just laying down, but the legs moving and the arms doing "arm circles" Other than that, I think We have most of it down. On a side note: I hope that PilzAdam or somebody might program something into a bed/furniture mod.

[Sokomine]

On a side note: I hope that PilzAdam or somebody might program something into a bed/furniture mod.

I've already created functions for mobs to use common furniture. Most of the work was to figure out how they ought to sit/lay on it - facedir of node vs. yaw of mob and relative position to the object. That it could be done with players as well was new for me, and thus I asked Bradon for the code. Players rotating randomly on furniture might still look odd.

[BrandonReese]

On a side note: I hope that PilzAdam or somebody might program something into a bed/furniture mod.

I've already created functions for mobs to use common furniture. Most of the work was to figure out how they ought to sit/lay on it - facedir of node vs. yaw of mob and relative position to the object. That it could be done with players as well was new for me, and thus I asked Bradon for the code. Players rotating randomly on furniture might still look odd.

If you attach the players like in the carts mod they won't rotate will they? Can you only attach players to entities?

[spock the elder]

I replaced the default player.lua file in the games/minetest_game/mods/default with the file from the first download link (and renamed it correctly), went in-game, attempted to change my stance, and got this error:

20:40:18: ERROR[main]: ServerError: LuaError: ...minetest/games/minetest_game/mods/default/player.lua:221: attempt to call method 'set_eye_offset' (a nil value)
20:40:18: ERROR[main]: stack traceback:
20:40:18: ERROR[main]: ...minetest/games/minetest_game/mods/default/player.lua:221: in function 'func'
20:40:18: ERROR[main]: /usr/share/minetest/builtin/chatcommands.lua:25: in function </usr/share/minetest/builtin/chatcommands.lua:16>
20:40:31: ERROR[main]: Jsonreader: servers.minetest.net/list not found (Timeout was reached)

Upon restarting the game, my stance has not changed.

the code itself says this:

minetest.register_chatcommand("sleep",{
func = function( name, param )
local player = minetest.get_player_by_name(name)
default.player_set_animation(player, "lay")
player:set_eye_offset({x=0,y=-10,z=0},{x=0,y=0,z=0})
end,
})

Upon looking into the chatcommands.lua, the failing was in declaring the chat command. Is there some place where I need to define the 'player:set_eye_offset' function? If so, where? Thanks for your help!

[BrandonReese]

You need a dev version of minetest. set_eye_offset isn't available in 0.4.9 stable.

[spock the elder]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... I'm still on 0.4.8 (*facepalm*)
how could I get set_eye_offset into my version? or is it compiled in the binaries?

[BrandonReese]

It's in the binaries. If you are on *Ubuntu, or another Debian based distro, the readme file has some pretty easy instructions to follow for compiling from source.

https://github.com/minetest/minetest/bl ... README.txt

[spock the elder]

I'll look into that. Thanks!