Travel Distance

[sdphantom]

Here's a nice script that I wrote. Records how far your character has traveled as well as your speed and has a feature to give a straight line distance and bearing from any point (mark) in 3D space.

This script also closes itself given the "exit" or "quit" commands.

Download here

Travel Distance
-Release (2005-11-26)
-Written by Zytre
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Introduction:

Traveldistance is a script that captures your position and returns your current speed as well as how far you've traveled.
Another feature is the ability to temperarily mark either your current position or set a custom mark then return the distance and bearing from your current position to the mark set.

Commands:
-Commands are case insensitive.
-All arguements are required.
-All commands (except "exit" or "quit") may be combined and are seperated by a single space.

-move <X> <Y>
Moves the display to coordinates (<X>,<Y>) on the screen.

-size <fontSize>
Sets the current font size to <fontSize>.

-color <A> <R> <G> <B>
-colour <A> <R> <G> <B>
Set the font color Alpha (transparency) and RGB values.

-autoMark
Sets the mark to your current position.

-setMark <X> <Y> <Z>
Sets the mark to specified in-game coordinates (<X>,<Y>,<Z>).

-clearMark
Turns off position mark.

-clearDistance
Resets travel distance to 0.

-reset
Clears all.

-exit
-quit
Closes the script.

History:
2005-11-26
'NWSE' direction now works off of mark bearing rather than difference of (X,y)

2005-11-25
Added function to force number argument types
(Forces number conversion to 0 if 'nil' is returned)
(Prevents data type errors)

2005-11-12
First public release

«Edit: New Version (2005-11-25)»
«Edit: New Version (2005-11-26)»

[TinyTerror]

This is the kind of thing that I wanted to see when I wrote Lunar. Good work!

[sdphantom]

admin said:

This is the kind of thing that I wanted to see when I wrote Lunar. Good work!

Thanks. ^.^;a

[phr33k]

Hey phantom nice work , i like the time you spend on things like this and letting everyone see it.

My question is, in a very non-smart ass way, what could be a use for this functionality in game? Like is there actually a point or is just for fun?

[sdphantom]

Mostly fun. ^.^;

The mark function is more to help you find a spot you might've been before or if you're helping someone get somewhere. It's alot better than having been told, "It's at (J-6)."

[sdphantom]

New version out.
Release (2005-11-26) fixes some bugs and has better code for the 'NWSE' direction to marked position.