Easy question: modify a parameter while the game is running.

[panurge]

I did not play very much with ZGE lately, due to university. Anyway, i still have some problems: i think i still do not understand the behaviour of some stuff.

I was amazed by the 'noise' stuff you can attach to a mesh (say, a sphere). I played a lot just by changing the parameters and looking the melting stuff moving.
I'd like to make a model composed by a sphere and a noise: my objective is to change some noise parameters when the game is running, obtaining the same "melting" effect i could manipulate in the editor.

So, i create a mesh, a noise, a model (plus a spawnmodel etc...). If i run the game, i see my static sphere: ok. Now i define a variable 't' and put something like:

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pippo.NoiseSpeed.Y=sin(t)*10;
t+=0.1;

in model's update page (pippo is the noise's name). But nothing changes. Maybe i put the expression somewhere wrong, may you help me?
I mean: ZGE sees no errors, but nothing moves.

I think my error is quite obvious, so pardon my noobiness. Anyway, i may upload a editable file if you think you should directly see what i did.
Very thanks in advance.

[VilleK]

Hi,

I think what you are looking for is the RefreshContent-component. It will force a mesh or bitmap to regenerate itself from the producers:

http://www.zgameeditor.org/index.php/Co ... eshContent

Insert it in your project tree after the ZExpression where you modify the t-variable and set the "Component"-property to the mesh. That should make your mesh animate in runtime.

[panurge]

oh yeah, this totally works!
Thank you very much, VilleK. I hope i'll create something nice out of it.

Have a great day!

[kattle87]

One more advice:
if you are applying a noise to something much more complicated than a normal sphere (Let's say you are applying noise to some implicit mesh) you would rather want to have the "unbiased mesh" then get a different mesh that only contains "load mesh UnbiasedMesh" and "noise" generator. This way, you can only refresh the latter and the refreshing will take very little. Otherwise, you could find yourself making tons of computations every single frame

Let's not speak about university... I will have an oral exam within 3 (yes, THREE) hours! I'm gonna die

[kattle87]

Sorry guys I'm COMPLETELY OFFTOPIC but I'm SO HAPPY I passed the exam this was one of the worst I had to do, so I'm just like YUPPIEEEEEEE

Ok now back to work for the upcoming exams... I have to hurry up if I want to get a degree by september =)