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Rotating back and forth means rotating like a door: it rotates to 'open' and then rotates back to 'close' again. This sort of movement comes in very handy if you want to make doors that open like the doors in your house | Rotating back and forth means rotating like a door: it rotates to 'open' and then rotates back to 'close' again. This sort of movement comes in very handy if you want to make doors that open like the doors in your house | ||
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#Click the OK-button again in the properties-window | #Click the OK-button again in the properties-window | ||
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This explains what you need to fill in and what every option does. | This explains what you need to fill in and what every option does. | ||
Revision as of 17:45, 3 May 2012
What is it?
With this, you can easily create moving objects in the MTA map-editor. Rotating objects, objects flying from place to place and even triggering them when you hit a marker. It's very easy to install and very easy to use. Please have a look at the tutorials below and enjoy the tool and its endless possibilities!
Installation
Once you have downloaded the file, put it in the resources directory of your MTA-installation:
MTA San Andreas / server / mods / deathmatch / resources
NOTE: The server where your map will be played must also have the resource in the 'resources' directory and the resource must be running!
Starting it up in the map-editor
Once you are in the map editor:
- Click on the Definitions icon.
- Click on moe and click the Add button
- Position your mouse on the buttons on the bottom-left corner
- Scroll your mousewheel until you reach the MOE-buttons
- You are now ready to use it! Don't forget to save!
How to use the tool
Attaching objects
Once you attach objects to an object that is going to move, the objects attached to it will move with it. Attaching is very simple.
- Just to be clear: the child-object is attached TO the parent-object.
- Create the parent-object where you want to attach the child-object to.
- Create the child-object you want to attach to the parent-object, position and rotate it as you like. In the Properties-window of an object, set the parent-object as parent (to re-open the Properties-window of an object, select the object and press F3).
- Click on the Browse-button next to parent
- Select the object you want to attach it to (click for enlargement)
- Click the OK-button
- Click the OK-button again in the Properties-window
- Click on the Browse-button next to parent
Done! The attached child-object will now move with the parent-object!
Rotating: Back and forth
Rotating back and forth means rotating like a door: it rotates to 'open' and then rotates back to 'close' again. This sort of movement comes in very handy if you want to make doors that open like the doors in your house
How to assign it
- Create the 'back and forth'-element by clicking on the 'back and forth'-icon (displayed on the right)
- Fill in the data (see below for a description for the data)
- Click the OK-button
- Select the object to which you want to assign the 'back and forth'-rotation
- Press F3, click on 'Browse' next to 'Parent' and select the 'back and forth'-element you just created
- Click the OK-button
- Click the OK-button again in the properties-window
Done!
Data description
This explains what you need to fill in and what every option does.
- ID:
- parent:
- forthTime:
- backTime:
- pause1:
- pause2:
- rotationX:
- rotationY:
- rotationZ:
- hideChild:
Rotating: Keep rotating
Keep rotating means that it will continue to rotate in the same direction, like a windmill.
Tracks
A track is an object that moves along a path, from one point to another, like an elevator/lift, a sliding door or a traintrack.