adding velocity to a hit enemy

[Volgera]

is it possible? I've never really paid attention to it, but I'm trying to make a weapon where an enemy is being 'pushed' or 'thrown' away whenever the player hits the enemy.

[Seiai]

@Volgera,

target.Physics:SetMotorVelOverride(20,0,0) target:DoTaskInTime(5,function(target)target.Physics:ClearMotorVelOverride() end)

well, this works to push stuff around unless its trying to move by itself, so u probably have to do something, to prevent it from moving by itself(probably something in the locomotorcomponent, i tried a few things but didnt find anything that works). But shooting off birds in a direction works pretty good with it so far(i bound it to a hotkey to target the thing under my mouse)^^ Edited May 18, 2015 by Seiai

[Volgera]

all right I'll be able to try and mess around to see if I can get something working then

[Volgera]

I'm just not sure how the locomotor works exactly... does anyone know how I can make an enemy stop moving on hit ?

[Mobbstar]

I'm just not sure how the locomotor works exactly... does anyone know how I can make an enemy stop moving on hit ?

 

You can stop their brain to prevent new paths from being taken. I don't know how to clear the cache though...

[Seiai]

@Volgera,

if u dont mind it being instant, u could also just teleport it:

target.Physics:Teleport(newposition)

or

target.Transform:SetPosition(newposition)

Edited May 19, 2015 by Seiai

[Volgera]

teleporting wouldn't give the 'fun' of hitting them with a baseball bat and seeing them get smashed away

 

I've also noticed this 'pushing away' effect hasn't at all been used by klei in the game... even the exploding gundpowder doesn't have a blast radius or sth

[Seiai]

I've also noticed this 'pushing away' effect hasn't at all been used by klei in the game... even the exploding gundpowder doesn't have a blast radius or sth

then use a better searchfunction, it's used a lot

i would suggest the "search in files" function in notepad++ with the filter *.lua and the data-folder of the game.

iam not sure how gunpowder pushes stuff, but i think it's this:

inst.Transform:SetFromProxy(proxy.GUID)

u could also try around with the collisionphysics and have stuff "collide" away from your character by making his collisionphysics bigger (just search for physic with notepad++). Edited May 20, 2015 by Seiai

[Volgera]

oh! in that case I'll go have a look around and see if I can do something neat with it! thanks!