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[matthieuj]

Hello,
I was trying to understand how I could do a first-person game.
Here's my question : for one place, the character could look in always four directions (4 scenes?), and I was trying to do a "turn right" (or left) script working for any scene :
Imagine he's looking at :
scenes\Room1\place1\view-0.scene
with "turn right" he will look at
scenes\Room1\place1\view-1.scene
etc.
As my goal is to use a single script to do that from any scene, it should just take the end of the string and replace 0.scene by 1.scene etc. (+1 mod4) but I can't figure out how I can do this.
If someone was nice enough to give me a clue...
Thanks by advance and sorry for the stupid question.

[metamorphium]

Let's divide your ploblem in two parts:

1st you should define a template in Wme Dev kit Templates folder so you for your scenes always have 2 regions with 2 attached scripts defined (so you don't have to define them again and again for every single scene).

Now let's assume your scene will be named view-0.scene, your left turn view-1.scene and your right turn view-2.scene you can use the following mechanism (note that I am not around WME dev kit now so can't test the script) for the left turn:

Code: WME Script

1. on "LeftClick"
2. {
3.    var SceneName = new String(Scene.FileName); // returns the filename of your current scene
4.    var lng = SceneName.Length - 7; // we strip away the "0.scene" part
5.    var newFile = SceneName.Substr(0,lng);
6.    newFile = newFile + "1.scene";
7.    Game.ChangeScene(newFile);
8. }
9.  

Hope this helps. This should at least get your started for potential solutions to your problem.

[matthieuj]

Thanks a lot Metamorphium! It was very helpful (and fast)!
Here's what I have done :

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on "LeftClick"
{
  var SceneName = new String(Scene.Filename); // returns the filename of your current scene
  var lng = SceneName.Length - 7; // we strip away the "0.scene" part
  var number = SceneName.Substring(lng,lng);
  var newFile = SceneName.Substr(0,lng);
  number = ToInt(number) + 1;

if (number < 4){newFile = newFile + number + ".scene";}
  else {newFile = newFile + "0.scene";}
 
  Game.ChangeScene(newFile);
}