@TD, Yeah it's a good one, what i really like with that app is you can feed it directly with png files, i had some nice results out of it, however tweaking the effet was kinda troublesome, i should try again

About the animated texture tutorial, there's a lot of info you don't even need in it, i'm gonna remake it right now
keep you in touch

Edit : Early rewrite of the tut :
http://forum.maratis3d.com/viewtopic.php?pid=365#p365

http://www.saschawillems.de/?page_id=253

Looks promising.

All I need to know now is how to export this animation, but I think I saw a tutorial either here or on the wiki.

Here is my function of receiving a distance:

function distance(entity1,entity2)
    local pos1 = (getTransformedPosition(entity1))
    local pos2 = (getTransformedPosition(entity2))
    return (math.sqrt(math.abs(math.pow((pos2[1]-pos1[1]),2)+math.pow((pos2[2]-pos1[2]),2) ) ) )
end

--the function call:
--1)
print(distance(player, enemy))

--2)
if distance(player, enemy) < 100 then
    --
end

if it is someone useful, can lay out other functions.

This particular explosion comes from a application called Particle Illusion
but basically my method is :

1) use a Imagemagick script to pack individual frames in a spritesheet
2) loading the texture into blender (i have a template for animating textures)
3) export. thats it

I have now a pretty decent collection of animated textures, with some found
on OGA, Deviant Art, and some others made with generators,I was planning to make a pack
of these but i could never decide if i put :

1) Multiple animations on a single texture
= Easier to manage, less easier to use, not really tweakable afterward (or painfully)

or

2) One texture per animations (so 1 different mesh for each anims)
= Easier to use, less easier to manage, easily tweakable

+ with maratis MGUI that will use FreeImage library, maybe i can use better resolution, easier workflow, i dont know, maybe it's better to wait a bit

@Anael, Outstanding ! Thank you

person = getObject("Person")
building = getObject("Building")
building2 = getObject("Building2")

--Person object should have LookAt behavior
translate(Person,{0,0,-1},"local)

if isCollisionBetween(person,building) then
    setBehaviorVariable(Person,0,"target","building2")
end

http://wiki.maratis3d.org/index.php?tit … orVariable

I will check this out later. Thanks.

- convert your % to a number between 0 and 1 : factor = percent*0.01
- then : pos = start_pos + (end_pos - start_pos)*factor

oh you need almost nothing to do this, from an empty project :

add 3 cubes, spread them, and name them :

Player
TargetA
TargetB

then put a LookAt behavior on the Player, with TargetA as target

and in script you could do

translate(Player, {0, 0, -1}, "local")

(negative value on Z axis on a object who got LookAt on it, will always move toward his target)

And when it reaches TargetA and collide with physics, distance or whatever, change behavior to
setBehaviorVariable(Player, 0, "target", "TargetB")

I will update the 2nd and 3nd examples this evening, while i was fighting with my projects i got some ideas

Also, the radius thing sort of acts like a wind system for particles.

I needed distance detection for the 5 senses, and also for the fuzzy logic I was trying to implement.

Im gonna add one or two more levels to this project later on,
a LookAt alternative like you suggested me a while back (with getLength3d(vec), normalize3d(vec) stuff)
and a mix-up of the 3 first examples

Oh and while i'm at it, for the first example, do you know if that's possible to
convert back the % value to position ?

I wanted to spawn clones between point A & B at a given % when launching the game,
(lets say 1 clones every 10%) but didn't succeed

The Radius collision detection mproj is not connected to the correct level by default,
I just loaded the good level and it worked.

But I didn't managed to make the Spawn multiple clones level working.

• Project

1) Calculate distance between meshes in percent

2) Radius collision detection, based on anael's method over here : http://forum.maratis3d.com/viewtopic.php?pid=6296#p6296

3) Spawn multiple clones in a given object perimeter

4) Spawn in Radius v2, will spawn animated texture at random positions on a controllable radius

Notes : I removed the object parenting in example 2, and use follow behavior instead