Prince IO Sketchup Game Demo

scottlininger

@chief1234 said:

I'm wondering if there's a way to load the engine onto any map without it being hardcoded.

Well, you could do one of two things.

Open one of the .skp files inside Plugins/knightgame and edit the maps directly.
Open the knightgame.rb file and modify the code to not load in a new model but simply run on top of the current model.

So yeah... it's doable. Let me know if you have specific questions.

chief1234

Right, changing the code to run on top of the current model would be ideal.

Unfortunately, I'm a novice at Ruby so I'm not quite sure how to do this...

I tried removing any direct references to maps in the file_loaded? method at the bottom. This way the engine will run, but only on maps AFTER they have been hardcoded, run, then the code removed again...

Obviously I'm missing a vital part of the puzzle...

Any help out of your busy schedule would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Luke J.

toxic

Thats fantastic

So when do we get worms

trickout

when i try to go to the linked site for the .zip, it says sight unavailable

can someone post it somewhere else?

scottlininger

Hello trickout. Terribly sorry for the broken link. Please try again.

Cheers,

trickout

Thank you for fixing the link. How can I edit the code, for instance make it move in 3 dimensions instead of just on a plane? I've tried to find a .rb editor but no success.

todd burch

.rb files are merely text files. Notepad, Textedit, lots of editors will work. Always save as plain text.

August

@unknownuser said:

... You can hear more details from the original preso: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FALvwBN5-hc

YouTube says: "We're sorry, this video is no longer available."

Any alternate sources?

Thanks,
August

scottlininger

@august said:

YouTube says: "We're sorry, this video is no longer available."

Any alternate sources?

Hey August,

I've sent a query to the code site folks asking what happened to the video.

Thanks!

Trimmer

Hi Scott,

I'm Having the same problem BTM did back in Nov:

@unknownuser said:

I have a mac running OSX 10.5.6, and for every frame, I encounter the error
%(#808080)["newGroundz:
value=>-5000<
TypeError: Value undefined (result of expression value.split) is not object."].
the error pops up first, i have to click enter, then next frame, same error, this repeat over and over, then the knight falls through the floor, screams, and SU messes up. Any idea why?

@unknownuser said:

I'll need to test on my Mac with SU7 and post a fixed version.

Have you found a way to correct this?

driven

Hi All,

did anyone ever get this running on a Mac? can something be changed to make it run?

john

todd burch

This was working on a Mac back when Scott posted this thread. Did someone or SU break it since then?

driven

hi Todd,

I only downloaded it recently and it appears to have the same symptoms as BTM's early post described, so I thought it had not been fixed....

or the solution had moved on to a different thread, as sometimes happens...

so, it's not currently working on 7.1 on a Mac and although I'm happy to modify the code, I'd need some instructions.

cheers

john

scottlininger

Hmm. Todd's cleaned up version was working on mac. I'll take a look...

driven

Thanks for that...

john

MartinRinehart

Todd Burch,

Congratulations on the quality of that code. To my eye, this is super readable:


var BACKSPACE =  8 ; 
var TAB       =  9 ; 
var ENTER     = 13 ; 
var SHIFT     = 16 ; 
...

Just one question: why the space before the semicolon?

driven

hi,

I can't believe it myself, but I now have it working on my Mac...

I changed it to "darwin" in line 137 and he longer falls

	if RUBY_PLATFORM.include?("darwin") then script = "top.GROUNDZ = " + groundZ.to_s + ";"
	else script = "newGroundZ(" + groundZ.to_s + " );" ;  
	end ; 
	dialog.execute_script(script);

now to see if all else works.....

john

todd burch

@martinrinehart said:

Todd Burch,

Congratulations on the quality of that code. To my eye, this is super readable:
. . .

Just one question: why the space before the semicolon?

Habit. Most languages I code in require a semi colon (C / C++ / Java / Javascript / PL/1 ) and other languages (Ruby, REXX) a semi colon is optional. Just a style I've developed over the last ... 26 years I guess it is now...

Thanks. Todd

Jim

It's been a few years since Scott released this game demo, and I thought there might be a few people who have not seen it, so here it is. bump. I was floored at the time to see this working in SketchUp, but it is still pretty awesome.

There is a link to download the game in the first post of this topic - it works with sketchup 8.

There is a clip in the video showing the game starting at 19m30s, but there's a lot of good developer info in the rest of the video too.

YouTube - Google I/O 2008 - Advanced Ruby Scripting for Sketchup
by GoogleDevelopers

[flash=480,385:22ep2clm]http://www.youtube.com/v/FALvwBN5-hc?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash:22ep2clm]

thomthom

@unknownuser said:

<edit>
Too big to upload to the forums, so you can get it here...
http://www.sketchupdemos.com/knightgame.zip
It's about 4mb.
</edit>

Does anyone still have a copy of this file?