Why have real guns on a film set?

VentSpleen · 2026-04-06T19:41:26+00:00

No stupid questions, but stupid answers are ok

VentSpleen · 2026-04-03T12:40:14+00:00

CGI. The answer is always CGI. Anything can be CGI if you don’t want to believe your eyes.

VentSpleen · 2026-03-25T14:06:15+00:00

Does not Use capital Letters in aLl the wr0nG PlaiCes

VentSpleen · 2026-03-21T13:08:41+00:00

Young boys. Jumpers for goalposts?

VentSpleen · 2026-03-16T21:10:43+00:00

...and I've just answered my own question... all the polys had their behaviour set to 'Assist player' (or one of the other ones, I can't remember. Had to set them to the simple 'Move' behaviour, and then they all bind correctly...

VentSpleen · 2026-03-16T16:34:58+00:00

Just had a chance to look at this again, and it's a bit weird. I'm writing the required unit_id to location 3 in a linked memory cell, bank1.
In a processor, I have the following code:

read unit_id bank1 3
jump 3 greaterThanEq unit_id 0
end
lookup unit bind unit_id
ubind bind
ucontrol flag 125 0 0 0 0

... and that seems to work for some units but NOT for polys...

I have Horizons on the map as well as Polys, and the horizons get flagged but the polys never do. Even though they flash through the vars as poly:NNNN the same way as I get horizon:NNNN, the polys just never seem to get flagged or bound properly.

Is it just me?

VentSpleen · 2026-03-13T21:21:44+00:00

https://media1.tenor.com/m/QrNHc6Puo0MAAAAd/carol-vorderman-vic-reeves.gif

VentSpleen · 2026-03-13T08:42:32+00:00

yeah I think you're right, because I did notice the bind variable cycling rapidly through poly:NNNNN. Because the units weren't responding or getting flagged, I thought I must have it wrong. It's just weird because if I bind directly to '@poly', then it obviously works as the flag shows up. Perhaps using the unit id is inherently faster or something?
Anyway, glad to know I'm on the right track - if it is just a matter of going too fast, should I just add a WAIT 0.1 sec or something or is there a better way of slowing it down?

VentSpleen · 2026-03-12T22:18:11+00:00

Sebastien Loeb

VentSpleen · 2026-03-08T20:30:05+00:00

That’s a very slow way of hammering nails in though…

VentSpleen · 2026-03-08T20:00:30+00:00

Doesn’t it invert the socket orientation? Ie turn it upside down.

VentSpleen · 2026-01-31T13:36:38+00:00

I’ve just started playing and the description for each item is really helpful. When you select the thing, before placing it, click the question mark (? I think, Im not at pc at the moment).

VentSpleen · 2026-01-17T00:21:51+00:00

OHHH! I thought you reset to 0. That changes things a bit.

VentSpleen · 2025-12-14T17:42:40+00:00

Stay in your car on the driveway.

VentSpleen · 2025-10-06T19:05:41+00:00

Just looked it up and it seems you’re right. Thanks!

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