Can LUA Get the Sun's Position?

[Argh]

That's all... any way to read that value from the .SMD and pass it to a COB? I don't care if it's the raw positional stuff or whatever...

[MelTraX]

That's no problem.. You can read every file.. I don't know if there already is a parser for that kind of file but if not you can just get the value with regular expressions or something similar.. To read the contents of the smd:

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local content = VFS.LoadFile("maps/" .. string.sub(Game.mapName, 0, -2) .. "d")

[Snipawolf]

Sunflowers :D

[quantum]

Sunflowersolars!

[rattle]

Dudes putting shades on when they face the sun!

[Argh]

Ok, so... let's say that I parse that... um... how do I parse that teeny, tiny sub-section, and post it to a global variable?

Sorry in advance, yes I'm ignorant. Fortunately, ignorance is curable.

And yes, I am going to use it for something like the above crazy ideas!

[smoth]

Dudes putting shades on when they face the sun!

and

fight

in

thier shades?


OH NO HE DIDN'T

[Argh]

No, but that'd be awesome.

Maybe after I am done with this, though. I really did get all of the necessary ingredients working, in tests. And now I'm learning the human-animation stuff that's necessary to script it

Ok, enough side-jaunts...

[MelTraX]

I don't know anything about COB or making maps but if you want to extract the SunDir values from the smd, you simply do:

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local content = VFS.LoadFile("maps/" .. string.sub(Game.mapName, 0, -2) .. "d")
local _, _, numOne, numTwo, numThree = content:find("SunDir=([0-9]+) ([0-9]+) ([0-9]+);")
Spring.Echo(numOne .. " - " .. numTwo .. " - " .. numThree)

Hope that helps...

[Argh]

Great, that's exactly what I needed.

[Neddie]

Dudes putting shades on when they face the sun!

and

fight

in

thier shades?


OH NO HE DIDN'T

The comedy police is coming.