Prospero 1 Posted October 23, 2002 Greetings all, I am pleased to say that my ProSphere Controller Lite software is now available. I have just sent it to OFP Info, so hopefully they'll have it on their site sometime today. Take control... Prospero Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GAMEER_77 0 Posted October 23, 2002 Cool...now that it's released can you tell us more about it? like how it works... PEACE Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prospero 1 Posted October 23, 2002 But the fun thing will be figuring it out;) It's very simple. Prospero Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
-CCCP-Stalker 0 Posted October 23, 2002 Urrr. What is it ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prospero 1 Posted October 23, 2002 ProSphere Controller Lite BETA for Operation Flashpoint (OFP) by Bohemia Interactive Studio (BIS). OFP v1.85 REQUIRED. I SAY AGAIN: THIS SOFTWARE WILL ONLY WORK WITH AT LEAST OFP v1.85. IN SHORT, DON'T BOTHER WITH THIS SOFTWARE UNLESS YOU ARE USING AT LEAST OFP v1.85. IF NOT, THIS SOFTWARE WILL NOT WORK. FULL STOP. FOR EXAMPLE, IT WON'T WORK WITH v1.75. YOU NEED v1.85. CLEAR? PATCH YOUR COPY OF OFP TO v1.85. YES, TO DO THIS YOU HAVE TO BUY OFP:RESISTANCE FIRST. ENOUGH SAID. - ProSphere Controller Lite was programmed by me, Prospero (Anthony Webber - awebber@tiscali.co.uk). - ProSphere Controller Lite is copyright © Anthony Webber, 2002. - ProSphere Controller Lite is freeware. You may freely distribute, use and (hopefully) enjoy this software. - I ask that you give me specific credit should you make use of ProSphere Controller Lite or original ProSphere Controller Lite concepts within zero-cost scripts / add-ons. - Should you make use of ProSphere Controller Lite or original ProSphere Controller Lite concepts within scripts / add-ons / ANY software related to OFP from which you BENEFIT FINANCIALLY, you MAY NOT distribute / use ProSphere Controller Lite or original ProSphere Controller Lite concepts without my express written permission. Bear in mind that if you create scripts / add-ons / ANY software related to OFP from which you wish to BENEFIT FINANCIALLY, you will have to ask BIS for permission first anyway. Consult BIS's legal terms for details. - "Try everything once. Except for incest and folk dancing." - I would like to give credit to: The Western and Eastern Fronts. - AND: Suma - for helping with a number of issues, and of course, for OFP in the first place! - AND: Dinger - for lots of help as I struggled, and continue to struggle, up the OFP scripting ladder. - AND: Amalfi - for his excellent MakePBO v1.1 program. - To INSTALL ProSphere Controller Lite into one of your user missions: - 1) Copy the prosphere.pbo file into your (Resistance) Addons directory. You only have to do this once. - 2) Now, copy all the (.sqs) files beginning with the letters "PS" into your user mission folder. You can copy the README file there too - it won't matter. - 3) OK, load up OFP and add three triggers into your user mission using the Mission Editor. a) You MUST name the three triggers PS1, PS2 and PS3. But don't worry - there's no need to fiddle with any of the other trigger settings. b) Place the triggers close to each other (within, say, 100 meters of each other) anywhere over land, NOT water. Land, NOT water - THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. c) Ensure they are not grouped (i.e. ensure that they are not connected by blue lines). Ungroup them if necessary. - 4) Finally, execute PSinit.sqs in any way you like - perhaps execute it in your init.sqs file. You're done! - To CONFIGURE ProSphere Controller Lite, keep reading. - What is ProSphere Controller Lite? - ProSphere Controller Lite (or just "ProSphere") is for OFP gamers, mission editors, and add-on creators. Simply put, it allows you to interact with the OFP Game World in ways that were previously thought impossible. - ProSphere exploits a number of original "tricks" within OFP to SIMULTANEOUSLY provide FIVE(*) fully independent, configurable, high-bandwidth, high-resolution, REAL-TIME axes of keyboard control input using the "main" game key assignments, and ALL DIRECTLY ACCESSIBLE to your OFP scripts via global variables. ProSphere therefore obviates the problem of very slow control input associated with laboriously selecting actions from the Action Menu (which is slow even when using automated macros, as is, albeit to a lesser extent, the Dialog method of input introduced in OFP v1.75). You can of course still use the Action Menu in the normal way for control input that does not require speed & resolution. Furthermore, you can combine ProSphere input with Action Menu input and / or Dialog input. The result can be very powerful. - Applications of ProSphere can be anything from simple interactions, like being able to walk up to a wounded squad-mate and quickly heal him / re-arm him / share equipment & data with him, to manipulating multi-axis in-game 3D switches, to locking / unlocking / positioning doors, to throwing objects from vehicles, to controlling a real-time safe-cracking puzzle, to implementing complex in-game 3D menus, to placement systems for setting and planting explosives, and even to advanced concepts such as controlling your own real-time (scripted) physics models. This, in fact, is why I developed the software in the first place - to provide a means of controlling a helicopter UAV flight maths-model I had implemented in OFP's scripting language, and which I had "attached" to an object in the OFP Game World. I needed at least four script-accessible REAL-TIME PSEUDO-ANALOG axes to control the helicopter UAV effectively - and an early version of the ProSphere concept proved the answer to this somewhat thorny problem. I then realised that the interface I had devised could be developed further to provide a rather nice feature for other OFP enthusiasts. ProSphere Controller v1.0 is the result. - (*) In fact, ProSphere provides not FIVE axes, but SIX. However, a limitation is placed upon the use of the sixth axis (the ProSphere C-Axis), which is this: Manipulating the C-Axis at the same time as attempting to manipulate the X-Axis will have the effect that X-Axis response is overridden, and vice versa. Practically speaking, it is unlikely that this will matter in the majority of cases, but do bear it in mind. This limitation is simply a consequence of what can / cannot be achieved in OFP scripting - but of course, in a perfect world I'd still like to find a work-around for this. - The full version (ProSphere Controller v1.0) provides in-game 3D graphical "Items" to facilitate complex user interactions. ProSphere Controller v1.0 is currently under development. ProSphere gets its name from these "Items", as they all happen to be spherical in shape. I will do my best to ensure that ProSphere Controller v1.0 will be compatible with any scripts / add-ons developed to work with ProSphere Controller Lite. - If you are using the default OFP key assignments, the ProSphere Axes are controlled as follows. If you have changed the default keys, then you should use whatever you have assigned instead: - OFP Command Key(s) ProSphere Axis Global Variable Name - ------------- ------ -------------- -------------------- - Strafe right Right Arrow or D X-Axis + PS select 0 - Strafe left Left Arrow or A X-Axis - PS select 0 - Forwards Up Arrow or W Y-Axis + PS select 1 - Backwards Down Arrow or S Y-Axis - PS select 1 - Up Page Up or Q Z-Axis + PS select 2 - Down Page Down or Z Z-Axis - PS select 2 - Look right Keypad 6 A-Axis + PS select 3 - Look left Keypad 4 A-Axis - PS select 3 - Look up Keypad 8 B-Axis + PS select 4 - Look down Keypad 2 B-Axis - PS select 4 - Turn right C C-Axis + PS select 5 - Turn left X C-Axis - PS select 5 - Fast forwards E Player MoveLock (toggle) - To ACCESS ProSphere Axes information: - ProSphere Axes information is stored in a global array called PS. It has six elements (from 0 to 5). You simply access this array for the axes information, at any time. - Each ProSphere Axis provides a floating point number in the range -1 to +1 with 0 being the centre point. - When ProSphere is ON, Player MoveLock can be toggled using the E key. MoveLock locks out conventional control of the player / player's vehicle, and the view will change to that of the MoveLock Camera. The MoveLock Camera's behaviour can be set up in the ProSphere configuration section (see the beginning of PS.sqs). This mode is useful for times when you want to use ONLY the ProSphere Axes. - Reserved ProSphere global variable names all begin with "PS". DO NOT DUPLICATE them in your scripts. - PS - PScam - PSfp - PSin - PSo - PSon - PSop - PSp1 - PSp2 - PSr - PSref - PSwi - PSwid - Reserved ProSphere filenames all begin with "PS". DO NOT DUPLICATE them as names for your scripts. - PS - PSa - PSb - PSc - PSda - PSdb - PSdc - PSinit - PSs - PSv - PSw - PSx - PSy - Reserved ProSphere object names all begin with "PS". DO NOT DUPLICATE them in your scripts. - PS1 (a trigger) - PS2 (a trigger) - PS3 (a trigger) - PSl (a gamelogic) - PSw1 (a special gamelogic widget) - PSw2 (a special gamelogic widget) - PSw3 (a special gamelogic widget) - PSc (the spoon) - PSv (the MoveLock Camera) - Notice therefore that all native ProSphere global variables, filenames, and objects begin with the letters "PS". This makes it easy for you to avoid conflicts (and future conflicts as ProSphere is developed) simply by ensuring that you do not use these initial letters for your own global variables, filenames and objects. Note that you must avoid all case combinations - i.e. "PS", "ps", "Ps" and "pS". Naturally, it's OK to have *local* variable names like "_ps" within your own scripts. - ProSphere Axes may also be controlled by using a SUITABLE PROGRAMMABLE mouse. I am hoping to include a suitable freeware / shareware programmable mouse driver with this distribution at some stage in the future. It must offer driver-level keyboard emulation to work with OFP. If the demand is there, I may write one myself. - ProSphere Axes may also be controlled by using a SUITABLE PROGRAMMABLE joystick such as the ThrustMaster Cougar. - You will need to create / load an appropriate profile into your particular joystick / joystick driver. I am hoping to include a suitable profile with this distribution at some stage in the future. PLEASE NOTE that this version of ProSphere is NOT really suitable for "absolute" modes of operation via joystick. This is high on my list of things to address, but I will first have to wait until I have a Cougar with which to test. - FEATURES: - The response of each ProSphere Axis is fully and independently configurable (see beginning of PS.sqs). - If configured identically, the response of all ProSphere Axes is identical. - ProSphere's response is identical regardless of which vehicle (if any) the player is occupying. - ProSphere's response is unaffected by the pace of Game World Time (the setAccTime function etc). - ProSphere adjusts its response to remain identical across PC systems with differing performance. - ProSphere adds one (and only one) action to the player's Action Menu - the ProSphere ON/OFF action (toggle). Wherever you go in the OFP world, this action will always be the first action in your Action Menu list. - COMMENTS: - I have tried to reduce the number of conditional phrases to a minimum as these are executed relatively slowly in OFP. Please do contact me if you spot any (other) possible optimisations. - KNOWN ISSUES: - Using Zoom (Keypad + and Keypad - keys by default) whilst ProSphere is ON changes ProSphere's A-Axis & B-Axis rates. Keypad - speeds them up, whereas Keypad + slows them down. I intuitively know why, but I do not yet logically realise how. Of course, I could simply claim it's a feature rather than a bug, but if anyone susses a fix, please let me know. Using optics or scoped weapons works fine - just don't zoom in or out while you're using them if you want ProSphere to work properly AT THE SAME TIME. The worst-case scenario is that you'll just have to reset ProSphere (i.e. if you're using the default keys, simply toggle ProSphere OFF with a double-tap of your middle mouse button, and then double-tap again to toggle ProSphere back ON - or you could double-tap your Return key instead). ProSphere will now function properly again. - There still seem to be some problems with OFP's addAction function (used in PSx.sqs). Occasionally you'll get into a vehicle and find that there are two copies of the ProSphere ON/OFF action in your Action Menu instead of one. If you know a fix, please do let me know. Fortunately, getting out of the vehicle in question seems to solve this. - PLEASE SEND BUG REPORTS AND FEEDBACK TO: awebber@tiscali.co.uk - OK, that's the end of the README. Go and open PS.sqs in your text editor to configure ProSphere Controller Lite (or you can just skip the configuration process and use the default settings)... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GAMEER_77 0 Posted October 23, 2002 Please, for those of us who can't try it just now, tell us how you did this. The moment you talked about .pbo's it became slightly clearer, but i still want to know. PEACE Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prospero 1 Posted October 23, 2002 I ain't telling;) It would be embarrassing. And by the way, the fact that there's an add-on (pbo) in there is nothing to do with the function of ProSphere. The add-on is simply a 3D "Item" that gives you a visual on how the axes are responding. Prospero Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dschulle 0 Posted October 23, 2002 can someone post a link? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spitfire 0 Posted October 24, 2002 I'm finally beginning to see how you did it, Prospero... The dialog-feature seemed to offer a lot more than BIS originally intented Once I get hold of this software (ok, it would be an understatement to call it merely a script) I'll start working on the VSTOL ... It'll be beautiful, I can already see it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prospero 1 Posted October 24, 2002 Sorry about the delay - it's beyond my control. I sent it to Bojler at OFP Info yesterday. He must be busy. Let's hope it goes on the site today;) Prospero (Nope, it's nothing to do with dialogs;)) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spitfire 0 Posted October 24, 2002 Damn, I thought I'd try to be clever Really, the user-defineable sliders and buttons are the only thing I can think of... Well, I guess it'll remain a mystery for a while... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Sharpshooter 0 Posted October 24, 2002 ofp.info is not the only news site OFP has. You can try sending it to, lets say, www.opflashpoint.org (and the list keeps going) it won´t hurt. Good Job Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GAMEER_77 0 Posted October 24, 2002 Can you not put up a temporary url? Or at least send it to me! Hope it's not too complicated... PEACE Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prospero 1 Posted October 24, 2002 I kinda promised OFP Info it would be exclusive, so I don't want to put it on another public site yet... I'll ask another site tomorrow though. Only fair... Gameer, I'll see about sending it to you via email. Edit: I think I'll need your email address... Prospero Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Sharpshooter 0 Posted October 24, 2002 Mi E-mail: leo2100@hotmail.com Send it please! It´s just that OFP.info updates very slowly, it´s a shame... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prospero 1 Posted October 24, 2002 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (The Sharpshooter @ Oct. 24 2002,18:27)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Mi E-mail: leo2100@hotmail.com Send it please! It´s just that OFP.info updates very slowly, it´s a shame...<span id='postcolor'> Done. Prospero Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viriato 0 Posted October 24, 2002 Please! Send it to me too, my curiosity is going to kill me!! admin@broquel.com Thanks! (Even if you dont send it to me, you deserve our gratitude, you had been spending a lot of time just to let us have some enjoiment) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prospero 1 Posted October 24, 2002 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Viriato @ Oct. 24 2002,19:24)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Please! Send it to me too, my curiosity is going to kill me!! admin@broquel.com Thanks! (Even if you dont send it to me, you deserve our gratitude, you had been spending a lot of time just to let us have some enjoiment)<span id='postcolor'> Done. OK, rather than taking up space in this thread (which I'm hoping, well not hoping, will be filled with bug reports! and if you can't wait till OFP Info put it up, send an email request to me directly at: awebber@tiscali.co.uk And I, out of the kindness of my heart, will send it to you. (Only until OFP Info puts it up). Prospero Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viriato 0 Posted October 24, 2002 Thank you very much!!!! (Runs like a Rabbit to test it) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prospero 1 Posted October 24, 2002 I have just contacted the German site: http://ofp-zone.gamesurf.tiscali.de/ I am hoping they may have it up tomorrow. C'est tout;) Prospero PS: Kann ich mal dein Mofa leihen? (Which is the only German phrase I remember from my school days, and it's pretty useless...) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spitfire 0 Posted October 25, 2002 Perhaps "noch ein Bier, Bitte!" is more useful Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viriato 0 Posted October 25, 2002 No please, no more (what a headache this morning) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prospero 1 Posted October 25, 2002 Hi all. Two things: 1) Bojler at OFP Info assures me that ProSphere will be up on their site today (Friday). 2) Here is something you might like to try to start off experimenting with ProSphere. This is a very simple example code snippet which you would execute while ProSphere is running in the background. It just allows you to move objects about using the ProSphere Axes. It does not take into account proper timing - it's supposed to be simple. So, call the object to be moved "myobject", then: ---------- _ta = 0 _vk = 25 #lp _ps = PS _x = _ps select 0 _y = _ps select 1 _z = _ps select 2 _a = _ps select 3 _b = _ps select 4 _c = _ps select 5 _dx = (cos(_ta) * _x + sin(_ta) * _y) * _vk _dy = (-sin(_ta) * _x + cos(_ta) * _y) * _vk _dz = _z * _vk myobject setvelocity [_dx, _dy, _dz] myobject setdir _ta _ta = _ta + _a ~0.01 goto "lp" ---------- Please note that this will only work on objects whose velocity can be set by the setVelocity command! Planes, helicopters, jeeps etc etc. Please also note that when you first run ProSphere (by executing PSinit.sqs), be sure to give ProSphere a second or so to spool up. Accessing the global array PS before running ProSphere will mean that you are trying to get hold of undefined variables. I made this mistake - and it's a very stupid one;) Prospero Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RED 0 Posted October 25, 2002 It is up for download at ofp.info now, I tried it and it looks great. Good work Prospero. RED Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spitfire 0 Posted October 25, 2002 Without a doubt, this is definitely the most significant script ever released. Two thumbs up! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
