Steam Community :: Discussions

SteamVR

All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews

SteamVR Workshop

Customize your SteamVR experience by finding new backgrounds, 3D environments, controllers and base station models.
Learn More

Home

Discussions

About

Workshop> SteamVR> All Discussions

Nolan the Fox has SteamVR

26 Sep, 2020 @ 10:23am

Source 2 Trigger something to happen after something is done for a random number of times

I'm working on a SteamVR Environment. One of the things I'm trying to get to work is a mechanic where you have to put an object inside of a trigger for a random number of times, and then it will fire an output once you have done it however many times it randomly chose.

I'm also trying to implement a similar mechanic to this, where you would have to put an object inside of a trigger, and it will change the skin for that object after a period of time. However, there are multiple duplicates of this object, with the same name (It's a burger, and the mechanic is like a food-cooking mechanic), so wouldn't it just change the skin for all of the duplicate burger objects, too? How can I get around this, and have it work if there are multiple burger objects in the trigger at the same time? This might be impossible, but I don't know. Maybe there's some other way I can accomplish this that would be better / easier to do. If anyone has any ideas, please, let me know!

Thanks!

< >

Showing 1-15 of 31 comments

Rectus

26 Sep, 2020 @ 10:42am

For handling multiple burgers, you might have to script it. Maybe as a script on the trigger that adds the burger to a list of burgers along with its starting time, and then periodiclly checks that list to see if they've been in long enough. You could also adjust the color on the burgers gradually.

Nolan the Fox has SteamVR

26 Sep, 2020 @ 12:40pm

Yeah. I was thinking of doing something with renaming the entities, I think you can do that? But there would be a ton of issues that would probably arise from that, your idea sounds a lot better. I'll have to think of something. Is there a way to do it with Skins? I've already made a couple.

Rectus

26 Sep, 2020 @ 12:43pm

Yeah, swapping skins works just as well.

Nolan the Fox has SteamVR

26 Sep, 2020 @ 12:46pm

Ok.

Nolan the Fox has SteamVR

26 Sep, 2020 @ 12:48pm

Also kind of unrelated, but I always seem to have issues when trying to use path_corners. Whatever I'm trying to move along the path will not follow the path corner, it'll just stop on it.

Nolan the Fox has SteamVR

26 Sep, 2020 @ 12:56pm

And, also, with these path_corners, do you know what radius is for?

Rectus

26 Sep, 2020 @ 1:00pm

Try using path_track instead.

Nolan the Fox has SteamVR

26 Sep, 2020 @ 1:05pm

Ok.

Nolan the Fox has SteamVR

26 Sep, 2020 @ 1:16pm

Yeah, that fixes it, now I have a (partially) working road system, thanks.

Nolan the Fox has SteamVR

26 Sep, 2020 @ 1:24pm

Originally posted by Rectus:
Try using path_track instead.

I have a question, say that I wanted to make the choice of path random. I have intersections where the possible paths are left, straight, and right. Could I use a logic_random_output to switch between the standard and branch paths? More specifically, I think you can, but can you make it reusable, rather than having to make one for every intersection? Like, I've never used them before, but I'm wondering if you can use something like:
For whatever path_track it is, in outputs:
On Pass > logic_random_output > Trigger
And then in that logic_random_output, in outputs:
!caller > Enable Alternate Path
Would / could that work? I've never used !caller before.

#10

Rectus

26 Sep, 2020 @ 1:27pm

Sounds like it could work.

#11

Nolan the Fox has SteamVR

26 Sep, 2020 @ 1:31pm

Ok, I'll try it, thanks.

#12

Nolan the Fox has SteamVR

26 Sep, 2020 @ 2:17pm

Ok, I also just tested out what I'm trying to make my random number thing work with, I think it changed the amount you have to do it, but it doesn't reset, it seems.

#13