Orb Launcher Tutorial

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espen180
307 Posts
Posted Oct 21, 2007

I know, I know. It's late. Far to late. Unfortunately, I'm lazy like that, but at least it's up now.

http://wiki.thinkingwithportals.com/wik ... r_Tutorial

Please tell me what you think about it. What can be added/changed/removed.

Thanks.

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Angel_Mapper
35 Posts
Posted Oct 22, 2007
Replied 1 day later
The orb launcher becomes unsynchronized when an orb passes through a portal and gets 'reenergized'. Has anyone found a solution to this?
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y-aji
91 Posts
Posted Oct 22, 2007
Replied 31 minutes later
lol, i finally gave up after almost 2 hours of screwing w/ it and changed the ball respawn time in the point_energy_ball_launcher to 10000000000000000000.0f.

It's got something to do w/ that variable. But 0.0f just made it worse... (anyone know what the f stands for? is it float?)

Dirty coding.. phem :/ but i just got so tired of screwing w/ it and figured a fix would come out in the next week or so.

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Hober
1,180 Posts
Posted Oct 23, 2007
Replied 58 minutes later
Yeah, I would guess it's float. It's a programming trick to tell the program what kind of variable it is with a single letter instead of, for example, (Double) time = 1000.0;
(That should be legit Java...)