Riding Animal Script

[Merrie]

I need a little refresher on getting scripts running. I have a horse and a avatar, how do set up the mount script, I would put that on the player or horse?

Any help is appreciated.

[zknack]

Merrie,

That would be setup on the horse (vehicle),

You'll have to setup a attach point as well, and either use motion blending, or a seperate set of animations for the rider.
I am also working on getting a horse & rider working, so- if I beat you to finishing this, I'll post my code in here for you
(and others) to use.. With luck someone will beat me to it though ;-) as my ability to write code, well- sucks.

However I really don't see it too much different than setting up a vehicle (planning on effectively copying the vehicle in
the adventure game, but utilizing my horse animations for it's movements, and then build in the motion blending for
attacks afterwards.

Doc links that may help:

Rider attachment help-
http://www.gamecore3d.com/docs/user-guide/scripting/default-library/Misc/attach_point.gsl

Potential to use to simulate the 'bounce' of riding-
http://www.gamecore3d.com/docs/opr/AddJoint

Vehicle (potential) help-
http://www.gamecore3d.com/docs/user-guide/scripting/default-library/Vehicles/vehicle_4wheel.gsl

And of course the default vehicle script in the adventure game demo.

[gekido]

Technically you don't necessarily need to make a horse a vehicle - but you'd probably want some kind of custom script that is designed to handle the animations a bit more.  I guess the vehicle script could be a starting point though.

The basics of 'riding' objects is the inventory system.

For example, in the situation where a player picks up a weapon (ie the weapon is added to the player's inventory), the weapon is technically 'riding' the player - ie it will move & be positioned relative to the player

In the situation where the player rides a vehicle (or a horse), the player is added to the horses inventory, and moves relative to the horse.