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If you've ever tried making a stealth level you've probably come across the problem of having sackbots that can't tell which direction they're facing, well I've found a solution to that. Instead of having to use timers and tags placed everywhere, this is the simplest way of doing it and with the least amount of flaws. http://i6.lbp.me/img/ft/35659a6c5fde41301953dad0b6dbf35987ceb041.jpg First bring out the Sackbot that you'll be using and place a tag on him. http://i1.lbp.me/img/ft/561f3227d0e3efb94e59eefc96e45ff20e10b65e.jpg Then take out a triangle piece of invisible hologram/sticker panel material and place a microchip on it. http://i6.lbp.me/img/ft/0c685ea35ffb60563f2ce15ad94a436de565b0da.jpg Place a follower and a look-at-rotator that both follow your sackbot, make sure their acceleration and speed are both set to maximum. The follower is just to simply have it follow the sackbot and the look-at-rotator copies the direction the sackbot is facing, also it is very important that the rotator is pointing in the same direction the triangle is. http://i9.lbp.me/img/ft/629c8d0b016a745c3ee9105f1da29570d84af592.jpg Now to help tell us what direction our sackbot is facing we'll have to use two angle sensors both facing in opposite directions (left & right) and set to 180 degrees. And now when you try it out you can see that depending on what direction the sackbot is facing the angle sensors turn on. This is just the basics so for those of you who are more skilled in logic should now know how to implement this into a stealth system. Thanks for reading!

2012-06-18 23:11:00 Author: CYBERSNAKE Posts: 280

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you can simply place a controllinator on the sackbot (defult settings should b fine), then wire the left/right output of the left analog stick to a splitter. also to have it remember which way it was last moving you can wire both outputs of the splitter to a 2 port selector

2012-06-23 16:25:00 Author: evret Posts: 612

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you can simply place a controllinator on the sackbot (defult settings should b fine), then wire the left/right output of the left analog stick to a splitter. also to have it remember which way it was last moving you can wire both outputs of the splitter to a 2 port selector Thanks a lot Evret!! Ruined another perfectly fine post! Nah, jk. Anyway, I think you misunderstood what OP was trying to say. I'm not entirely sure if Evret's method would work on a NPC, and NPCs are what the OP's talking about (I think).

2012-06-24 06:20:00 Author: Kaboosh99 Posts: 359

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you can simply place a controllinator on the sackbot (defult settings should b fine), then wire the left/right output of the left analog stick to a splitter. also to have it remember which way it was last moving you can wire both outputs of the splitter to a 2 port selector This only works when the player is controlling the sackbot, my method is designed for sackbots that the player does not take control of.

2012-06-24 08:26:00 Author: CYBERSNAKE Posts: 280

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I looked into it and it seems to work as evret said. I put a sackbot to patrol and wired the left stick output to direction spillter and then a two port selector. It does get the signal even when the bot is moving back and forth on its own. This caught my attention because I actually made my own stealth logic, but because I didn't know any better I don't use either of these tricks. But now I know three different ways to do this. Yay.

2012-06-24 19:01:00 Author: xxMATEOSxx Posts: 1787

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Thanks a lot Evret!! Ruined another perfectly fine post! Nah, jk. Anyway, I think you misunderstood what OP was trying to say. I'm not entirely sure if Evret's method would work on a NPC, and NPCs are what the OP's talking about (I think). This only works when the player is controlling the sackbot, my method is designed for sackbots that the player does not take control of. I looked into it and it seems to work as evret said. I put a sackbot to patrol and wired the left stick output to direction spillter and then a two port selector. It does get the signal even when the bot is moving back and forth on its own. This caught my attention because I actually made my own stealth logic, but because I didn't know any better I don't use either of these tricks. But now I know three different ways to do this. Yay. yeah i knew you were talking about NPC's, if the controllinator is on an NPC and and not set to receive it will be activated by the NPC's actions

2012-06-25 10:39:00 Author: evret Posts: 612

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Yet another method is using a speed sensor set to only register left-right speed, with maximum speed set to 0.1 (wired to a splitter/selector like Evret's controlinator example). The difference is that it also registers involuntary movement (like being dragged).

2012-06-25 11:29:00 Author: Rogar Posts: 2284

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I did this using 3 hologram blocks which follow the sackbot. One central connector block, and two sensor blocks to the left and right. With the follower logic rigged up in the right way you can make it so that the bot has no collision with the sensor blocks while stationary, but clips either block just enough while moving to trigger impact sensors (touching- yes, rigid connections - no). I also put a selector in the mix to hold the directional "memory". Sorry to be vague but I did this a year ago and my memory is hazy at the best of times

2012-06-25 21:48:00 Author: Ungreth Posts: 2130

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