CAOS Language Guide

Macro

Description

These commands are particular to objects of type LIFT or VHCL - these are the only objects which can carry a creature around the world

CABN left top right bottom

Set the relative co-ordinates for a vehicle cabin, the place where creatures are held.

Command only

DPS2 gravity

Drop Passengers 2. Causes any creatures carried by the vehicle to be "dropped".

gravity

0 = gravity is not activated on the object and must be done manually under script control.

non-zero = gravity is activated on the object

Command only

DPAS

Drop passengers. This works the same way as specifying DPS2 1. i.e. all passengers are ejected and have gravity operational.

Command only

GPAS

Get passengers. Loads any nearby creature into the vehicles cabin

Command only

SPAS vehicle creature

Loads a named creature into the named vehicle

Command only

LACB

Align Lift cabin with room floor. If this value is set to non-zero the lift will stop at a position where the bottom of its cabin is aligned with the room floor. The default behaviour is to align the bottom of the lift with the floor.

LValue and RValue

XVEC value

Sets/returns the vehicles x movement vector in 1/256^th of a pixel. This command is a legacy from Creatures 1 - VELX will work just as good.

RValue and LValue

YVEC value

Sets/returns the vehicles y movement vector in 1/256^th of a pixel. This command is a legacy from Creatures 1 - VELX will work just as good.

RValue and LValue

BUMP

Returns a vehicle's collision data. This is a legacy command left in for completeness. To utilise this a vehicle must move use XVEC and YVEC (rather than VELX and VELY) and have ATTR set up to respond to boundaries.

The values returned are from a bit-field where:

bit0 - hit left

bit1 - hit right

bit2 - hit top

bit3 - hit bottom

So, for example: a value of 1 corresponds to having hit a wall to the left; a value of 4 corresponds to having hit a ceiling; a value of 5 corresponds to having hit a ceiling and a wall to the left.

RValue only.

TELE x y

Teleport the vehicles occupants to the location x y and move the camera too.

Command only