Whats moving the ball?

[barney12345]

Hey guys,
so for the past little while I've been trying to see what game mechanics I can make, eg autolocking systems, ai tennis players, etc, but when I tried to make a simple passing mechanism for a basketball style game, the ball just goes away and glitches. Can anyone see if they can find what's wrong
Cheers, barney

[DeltaLeeds]

First off, your code should be combined into one script editor, I mean, it's kind of a drag to be checking different script editors in draw actor for checking a simple line of code. And anyway, a semicolon (;) should not be used after a } in an if statement. Make your Ball's draw actor script just this:

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if(pick1=1){
    MoveTo("Event Actor", 0.000000, 0.000000, 5.000000, "player1", "");
           }
if(pick2=1){
    MoveTo("Event Actor", 0.000000, 0.000000, 5.000000, "player1", "");
           }
if(pick3=1){
    MoveTo("Event Actor", 0.000000, 0.000000, 5.000000, "player1", "");
           }


Now, what have you done wrong? Why does the ball keep moving?
Checking a variable in if should be done with "==" instead of just "=". = changes the variables into that designed value. So in the above code, pick1, pick2 and pick3 will be made into 1, and so the ball actor will always move to player1. So to change that, just make the = into ==.

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if(pick1==1){
    MoveTo("Event Actor", 0.000000, 0.000000, 5.000000, "player1", "");
           }
if(pick2==1){
    MoveTo("Event Actor", 0.000000, 0.000000, 5.000000, "player1", "");
           }
if(pick3==1){
    MoveTo("Event Actor", 0.000000, 0.000000, 5.000000, "player1", "");
           }


Now, this code will now check whether pick1, pick2, or pick3 is 1. If any of them are 1, it'll move to player1.

Hope I helped.