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 Wait how can you turn an actor into a material 
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dragonxp
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Post Wait how can you turn an actor into a material
So as the thread title says i need this for my gold transmuter, might as well learn now :/
So if any1 can tell me if this is possible?
As far as i know it involves collision with the particle then this = actor and turn into material which = gold?
HELP!!! :???:

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Mon Oct 19, 2009 2:52 am
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You can't, unless you want to move the actor underground, gib it, and release a puddle of gold where it was standing.
Mon Oct 19, 2009 2:55 am
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You don't need Lua for this. Just make copies of your torso, head, and arm sprites which appear gold in color. Make these your gibs. Put them right over the arms, legs, head, and torso of your alive actor in the gib editor. Then, in your gib ini, change the material of these gibs from flesh to gold. Bingo.

Edit: Oops, didn't realize you meant for an actor to turn into a material when you shoot it with something.


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He wants to transmute actors into gold.
What might be a better solution, Mr. dragon, would be to read the gold value of the actor in question and spawn a proportionate amount of gold bricks at the place the actor was.
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so could you like have any lua script kill the actor then like place total proportionate amount of gold there?
Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:26 am
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Pick a target with one of the proximity scripts, call actor:GibThis() (where actor is a reference to the closest actor), and do the following pseudocode.
numOfBricks = actor.GoldCost / 10
(summon numOfBricks bricks) at actor.Location() * math.random() * 32.
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If you set any MOSR's material to gold once it settles you can collect it.

The code for what you are talking about though would be:
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function Update(self)
   for actor in MovableMan.Actors do
      local avgx = actor.Pos.X - self.Pos.X;
      local avgy = actor.Pos.Y - self.Pos.Y;
      local dist = math.sqrt(avgx ^ 2 + avgy ^ 2);
      if dist < 200 and actor.Team ~= self.Team then
         numbricks = math.floor(actor.GoldValue / 10);
         local particle = CreateMOSRotating("Gold Brick 10oz"); -- I think this is it's name.
         particle.Pos = actor.Pos;
         particle.Vel = actor.Vel;
         for i = 1,numbricks do
            MovableMan:AddParticle(particle);
         end
         actor:GibThis();
      end
   end
end


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Code:
actor.Health = -1;
actor.ToSettle = true;


Dunno about the gold part, I think theres no way you can hack the material to different one.
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CrazyMLC wrote:
If you set any MOSR's material to gold once it settles you can collect it.

The code for what you are talking about though would be:
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function Update(self)
   for actor in MovableMan.Actors do
      local avgx = actor.Pos.X - self.Pos.X;
      local avgy = actor.Pos.Y - self.Pos.Y;
      local dist = math.sqrt(avgx ^ 2 + avgy ^ 2);
      if dist < 200 and actor.Team ~= self.Team then
         numbricks = math.floor(actor.GoldValue / 10);
         local particle = CreateMOSRotating("Gold Brick 10oz"); -- I think this is it's name.
         particle.Pos = actor.Pos;
         particle.Vel = actor.Vel;
         for i = 1,numbricks do
            MovableMan:AddParticle(particle);
         end
         actor:GibThis();
      end
   end
end

Ty ill try now, thnx for helping.
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Well, that isn't exactly working code.
There are still optimizations and I'm not sure about what the presetname of the gold brick is.
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It's a MOSParticle. "10 oz Gold Brick"
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well could you tell me what to add, ill fix the mosparticle 10 ox oz* (zomg my SPELLING) gold brick, more help pls.
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function Update(self)
   for actor in MovableMan.Actors do
      local dist = SceneMan:ShortestDistance(actor.Pos,self.Pos,true).Magnitude;
      if dist < 20 and actor.Team ~= self.Team then
         if actor.GoldValue ~= 0 then
            numofbricks = math.floor(actor.GoldValue / 10);
         else
            numofbricks = 0;
         end
         local particle = CreateMOSParticle("10 oz Gold Brick");
         particle.Pos = actor.Pos;
         particle.Vel = actor.Vel;
         for i = 1,numofbricks do
            MovableMan:AddParticle(particle);
         end
         actor:GibThis();
      end
   end
end

This should work.


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ok so i attach to gun after preset game using ScriptPath = right?
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Yes, but:
Recopy the code, I had a typo.
Apply it to the bullet the gun shoots, not the gun.
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