Plugins + Scripts Rotate To Target

[Clownmug]

Clownmug submitted a new resource:

Rotate To Target - A simple plugin that makes an atom continuously rotate to face a designated target.

I couldn't find a plugin close enough to this so I decided to make one. This plugin is based on Spacedog's Rotate to camera and noone77521's AlignHelper but instead of only rotating an atom to face the main camera it lets you designate...

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[Clownmug]

Seriously, I've been wanting something like this for lighting setups for awhile and I'm honestly surprised VAM doesn't have a "point at target" option for the lights by default.

Wow, it completely slipped my mind that this could be used for lighting. I was only thinking about cameras for some reason.

Edit: Looks like a better plugin already exists now that I looked for ones related to lights.

Searchlight - Plugins + Scripts -

I changed the license from CC BY-NC to CC BY-SA. You can use it for paid content. However, please refrain from distributing it together with paid content. This plugin keeps the Atom pointing towards another Atom and player. It can be used for...

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[Foost]

Heya. First thanks for this lil plugin, it's also the first one I found (and I used it only for lights), tbh the name is much more reasonable than Searchlight

Now the bug report. I spent quite a while debugging why one of my plugins was sometimes randomly not receiving any "on atom added/removed/renamed" callbacks from VAM. It looks like having this plugin in the scene can break those callbacks, since it overwrites any existing registered handlers on its activation. This code:

SuperController.singleton.onAtomAddedHandlers = (a) => MakeTargetAtomList();
SuperController.singleton.onAtomRemovedHandlers = (a) => MakeTargetAtomList();
SuperController.singleton.onAtomUIDRenameHandlers = (a, b) => MakeTargetAtomList();
SuperController.singleton.onAtomUIDsChangedHandlers = (a) => MakeTargetAtomList();

Should use "+=" to add the handlers. Just assigning them nukes any previously registered ones.

 

[Clownmug]

Heya. First thanks for this lil plugin, it's also the first one I found (and I used it only for lights), tbh the name is much more reasonable than Searchlight

Now the bug report. I spent quite a while debugging why one of my plugins was sometimes randomly not receiving any "on atom added/removed/renamed" callbacks from VAM. It looks like having this plugin in the scene can break those callbacks, since it overwrites any existing registered handlers on its activation. This code:

SuperController.singleton.onAtomAddedHandlers = (a) => MakeTargetAtomList();
SuperController.singleton.onAtomRemovedHandlers = (a) => MakeTargetAtomList();
SuperController.singleton.onAtomUIDRenameHandlers = (a, b) => MakeTargetAtomList();
SuperController.singleton.onAtomUIDsChangedHandlers = (a) => MakeTargetAtomList();

Should use "+=" to add the handlers. Just assigning them nukes any previously registered ones.

Thanks for the info, I'll update this when I get a chance! Searchlight and a few other plugins do a lot better job and were probably made be people that knew what they were doing, I just threw something together using AlignHelper plugin as a reference. I'm pretty sure those lines are in that plugin too.

 

[Clownmug]

Clownmug updated Rotate To Target with a new update entry:

Version 2

- Implemented bug fix provided by @Foost.

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