[Bf-funboard] bge proposal : having python scripts for sensors, (controllers) and actuators

[Jonathan-David SCHRODER]

Hi
if you really start creating your game logic by thinking that the controller
IS the brain that controls everything, then you can make something clean.

in the case of sensor that should be things that think... for a python
controller to trigger some action, it decides what to do on :
-which sensor called it (someSensor.isPositive())
- and some things it can observe by himself by reading various objects'
properties/situations.
those things it can observe could be put in the the sensor section instead
as real sensors and made reusable. That's why I propose having python
sensors.

For example, there's no sensor for... seeing if some external object's
property is equal to something (there's a local property sensor, but not an
external property one)...

maybe, the same way there are pynodes which help pack helpful and often used
node python code, there could be pynodes for sensors.

anyway indeed as you state, everything is doable in the GE... so I should
not try to split hairs.

jonathan

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Carsten Wartmann <cw at blenderbuch.de>wrote:

> Jonathan-David SCHRODER schrieb:
> > Hi
>
> Hi!
>
> > My final proposal is :
> > 1) make sensors able to be scripts
> > 2) controllers are scriptable this is ok
> > 3) make actuators able to be scripts
> >
> > What do you think ?
>
> I really cant see (maybe your examples are to unspecific) what this
> could help.
>
> You can controll an object from a controller without any actuator
> (visibility, mesh, pos, orientation etc.) So many things are already
> possible. Maybe you also want to play Ipos? Well what is so bad about
> having an (named, this helps) Actuator?
>
> For the sensors: I dont think it would be wise to make some script
> sensor. Can your eye think? ;-)
>
> I think the logic system has its flaws but it proved in the last years
> that it is working in the way it was designed (SCA like in a living
> thing), we can (I think) do nearly everything with it, and the python in
> the controllers unlocks the rest.
>
> Best regards,
> Carsten
>
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