Gmod trebuchet tutorial part 2.

[JonnyHurricane1]

i got exspetion chip to work but it does not grap the object when i click the button ive tryed toggel an non togel but both dont work i can only get it to grab when i wire it to a constant value with strength set high and wire it stright to the button when its toggeled but if i wire it to the exsption it does not grap??? why is this?

[darkassasin101]

how did u get the expression chip

[lambosrule898]

i keep getting this thing that says expected (() at (<)

[MrFreakHeavy]

A way to use all of the potencial energy of the fridge would be making the pole longer. You need more energy to move an objet longer and there is nothing bad to "waste" the energy of the fridge with a longer pole, since making the pole longer would make the sling go fater. You are actually tranfering the energy to the object and so it will go fater.

[SpinDizzyMR]

Ok I got the trebuchet to work at last, auto release mechanism and all, here is what I did for all the others that are stuck.

1. Sparrows code, I can't get it to work and I believe its wrong. I'm not sure about his expression 1 code but his expression 2 code certainly seems to have something wrong with it.

I recommend this as expression 2 code, TESTED AND WORKS ;

@name

@inputs Button Gyro

@outputs Grab

@persist Gyro

@trigger

if(Button) {Grab = 1}

if(Gyro < 20) {Grab=0}

[DaleSparrow]

@SpinDizzyMR  thanks, I did not make the xp2 code but yours is perfect.

[SpinDizzyMR]

I figured out before you replied that to get the expression 2 chip to function, button needs to be added to the inputs.

I also figured out that you can use either the expression 1 chip method or the expression 2 chip method, not make both chips, that confused me for a while.

Still it doesnt help as the grabber simply wont grab anything, I don't know how to make it grab. I assumed if you held something over the white line of the grabber t would automaticly cling to it.

[SpinDizzyMR]

Well actually my main problem is, everytime I spawn my expression 2 chip, I get an error saying button does not exist.

Whether the button you make later on is present or not.

[DaleSparrow]

@SpinDizzyMR Oh ok, i think its because you have not declared it as a variable then. In the inputs thing (@inputs) you have to declare "button"

[SpinDizzyMR]

@DaleSparrow

After a lot of trail and error, closest I get it to working is, pressing the button makes the grabber grab something, and pressing it again makes it release ti again.

But the grabber wont autorelease when I make it catapult into the air, prop stays stuck to the grabber.

[SpinDizzyMR]

I wasn't able to complete this tutorial.

Wasn't explained how to make the grabber grab, or the output pitch wiring, or why gyro didnt come up as a function to wire when I tried it.

[thejerm109]

alright so i finnaly figured out how to make the grabber work... but it dosnt release

i did evrything exacly like i n the video

[Twinfire]

DaleSparrow - Thanks for the tutorial, when i try the exp1, line 1 I get "expected symbol (() required near (<) on line 1" what gives or is exp1 out of date.

Twin

[emperusDS]

Why don't you put the > there.. its the more than sign -_-

[SuperHardstyleaddict]

i have a little problem with the expresion, i'm doing everything right with E2 and all he says is that there is a white space infront of the " : ", but there isn't anything there, some1 pls help

[DaleSparrow]

@SuperHardstyleaddict You have to delete any spaces on that line. >.> this comment was posted 3 months ago... I never saw it, sorry.

[xlxUndeadBunniesxlx]

where do you put the expression 2 code for the auto release? plz help

[zenoa2000]

please could you give me an expression 2 code my expression one dont work

[DaleSparrow]

@zenoa2000 Il put it in description.

[gtolstykh]

help me> i do not know why. but my expression won't spawn

[shadowscion]

they seem to be buggy lately, probably because they are being removed(replaced with the 100x better expression2)

[422716]

for the expression line one is Button ==1 -> release = 0; coz he made a mistake in his writing. btw if i added a constant value of 1 instead of a button would it grab anything?

[Mossman1223]

Oh, and make sure you weld the chip to the arm, because it gets the entity of what it is welded to.

[Mossman1223]

If you want the E2 code, here it is:

@name Trebuchet

@inputs

@outputs Grab

@persist Arm:entity

interval(10)

Arm=entity():isWeldedTo()

if(Arm:angles():pitch()<20) {Grab=0}

if(Button) {Grab=1}

That should work, I havn't tested it though. Incase you're wondering why I didn't put a Gyro input or what the Arm variable does, well, E2 can function as other components. It can get angles, entitys, Vectors, all that good shit. So I just got the entity of the arm and got it's pitch.

[shadowscion]

you forgot to put Button in inputs :P

[GamerApevia]

Dude, could you give me the exact codes for the chip, i am using chip- exspresions two because chip- exspresions one keeps saying it is exspecting to see (() near = in line one. this would be much apprciated, thanks.

[DaleSparrow]

i havn't used exp 1 for half a year, so i dont know if it has changed. but try it.

[DaleSparrow]

no, that means that you didn't put a button in the output line (next to the inputs line)

[gravizt]

the grabber wont grab anything. at first it grabbed the grounds, now it doesent grab at all.

[DaleSparrow]

respawn the exp 1 chip

[gravizt]

thank you.

[HaloEliteXX]

this sure beats physics lessons

[zoglander]

I don't seem to have all the things you have, how do you float in the air and get switches and buttons?

I have version 10

[DaleSparrow]

You don't know how to no-clip? well you press v. But I suggest you take a few basic gmod tutorials or play for atleast 1 week. THe buttons you get from a addon you call wiremod.

[zoglander]

thanks :)

[BarbaroiAxe]

it says release =1 at one point and 0 at another. what>?

[DaleSparrow]

yes, beacuse when it is 1, the grabber is told to grab, but when it is zero, the grabber releases, the lines tell it when it should be 0 or when it should be 1.

[ceeldewin3]

How I attatch the pumpkin to the grabber? >_>

[Icubanick1993]

what is the equation on the expression chip???

[kazmanli]

i tryed changing the script cos it was wrong and kept saying unexpecter syble and wen i tryed the new code it would grab but now realeas the ball, help plz lol

[DaleSparrow]

sure, paste the script here and il look at it.

[whitesinner0]

to make the expression or try too. make the words that are in the expression line capitalize the first letter in the word. Hope that helps. :D

[DaleSparrow]

ya what he said!

[solo508]

3:00 A magic pumpkin appears out of nowhere! Sorry but I'm trying to follow your tutorial and you edit it up without telling us how to get the grabber to hold on to the pumpkin. help?

[DaleSparrow]

That's what the button is for. you press it, and it grabs.

[DaleSparrow]

@davidruark You'll have to tell me exactly how youve set it up, then i'll see what I you can do.

[DaleSparrow]

I am acctualy going through all the videos, because I noticed these STUPID flaws.

[Andreas2370]

i cant get the expression chip to work? can you plz link the code on line 1 and 2?

[DaleSparrow]

Yea,I'll try to do it when i get back home.

[Ricke95]

Can you send it to me to? Sorry bad english.

[PrimevalAK47]

i need help. i did everything like the video says for the expression chip and it didnt work. i think my wire expression doesnt work because i loaded a premade 1 and it still wouldnt show up

[DaleSparrow]

... mabe your wire is broken, otherwise, post what you did and Il try and see.

[daarklord]

Great video. Especially when you pointed out that everything falls at 9.8 m/s^2. I might have gone through life adding more counter weight to solve all my trebuchet problems otherwise.

Now I'll solve all my problems by adding more sling length... :D

[DaleSparrow]

great! BUT REMEMBER! there is a optimum sling length, becuase if your sling is longer than your throwing arm, the chances are good that it wont go ANYwhere, becuase the projectile just "pivots" under the axel!

[jibster94]

hey me agen :D i made a realy good trebu het and i wana thank you for telling me how but the auto release thing when u write in the first line and second line i put in wats on d screen but wont work can u tell me wat to write in dem so i can just copy and paste them in the lines on the video dont seem to work

[DaleSparrow]

sure i'l get them for you

[fireball3295]

CAN U PLZ give me the codes for the line 1 i only need line 1... i did the line 1 exactly how u did but wen i try to place the expression it says: expected symbol (() near (<) at line 1

[Celticcondor2]

I got that same problem, could I possibly get the codes for line 1 as well

[blackdragonmark]

Its easy :D you can record with Camtasia and then Export to SWF then you get a swf file ^^ with html template and all :D

[blackdragonmark]

Just make some tutorials :D best would be as a SWF file (you can make it with Camtasia) and just add our name "This is a Tutorial for G-Help" ^^

[DaleSparrow]

K, il try, i've never used flash creator before.

[blackdragonmark]

Nice Work man :D i need one who can make some Tutorials for my homepage G-Help interested?

[DaleSparrow]

Ok, just tell me what you need.

[xXpezcoolXx]

(is it Input: button and gyro

Input: button, gyro

or anything else?)

[DaleSparrow]

The inputs are: Button Gyro

The outputs are: release

[xXpezcoolXx]

You should write down in the description what is typed in the expression so I don't have to go back to the place where u see it in the video :P