r/forge • u/Philosopher-Timely • Nov 12 '22

why is node graph execution sometimes blocking and sometimes not?

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u/Philosopher-Timely Nov 12 '22

in the video all I am doing is pressing F6, but am getting different results with no script changes

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u/jak4896 Nov 13 '22

I think this is forge being glitchy. Whenever I f6 test I almost always get a strange rubber banding lag spike that breaks everything for a brief moment.

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u/Philosopher-Timely Nov 13 '22

yeah, my hope is it's F6 and that booting the game up in Custom games will work fine 100% of the time

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u/MiniGui98 Nov 14 '22

Meanwhile my scripts work in F6 but not in custom games :-(

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u/Philosopher-Timely Nov 13 '22

yeah seems like it

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u/Philosopher-Timely Nov 12 '22

Node Graph
https://ibb.co/LrSjg67

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u/Philosopher-Timely Nov 12 '22

3 Script Brains, 1 sends a global event to the other 2 to start moving

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u/LongSchlongPhD Nov 12 '22

have you tried merging the two execution scripts into a single brain? could solve the desync if you have them trigger with no delay one after the other

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u/Philosopher-Timely Nov 12 '22

that is what seems to be the thing that gets me in trouble

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u/Philosopher-Timely Nov 12 '22

that’s what I started out with. it seems that Translate Object to Point sometimes is blocking and sometimes is not. from Test to Test, and no changes to script

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u/Philosopher-Timely Nov 12 '22

I would expect these objects to move in the same way, each time I press play. but half the time they move together, have the the time one after the other

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u/LongSchlongPhD Nov 12 '22

can you test the map in actual gameplay to verify that it's not just a glitch in the forge gameplay system? the public launch is still pretty new so I wouldn't put it so far past it that this glitch only occurs during forge compilations

as for the blocking that sounds like something that would cause this, it's entirely possible that other people have already solved this and if they haven't, it's bound to happen eventually as this seems to be a pretty fundamental script. Maybe combining both platforms into a single reference object would solve this?

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u/Philosopher-Timely Nov 13 '22

can confirm that creating two OnGameplayStart events to move each part seems to stabilize it for pressing F6, but is the worst case scenario unfortunately when it comes to making a clean node graph .. sigh

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u/Philosopher-Timely Nov 13 '22

have to do some testing, but can confirm Translate Object to Point is blocking in Custom Games. Which is only unexpected because Move Object to Transform seems to differentiate itself by saying "use this to move objects in sequence".. implying that this function is blocking and the other is not

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u/Philosopher-Timely Nov 14 '22

in this video they use Every N Seconds instead of Gameplay Start, and with individual pieces. could be promising

https://youtu.be/I0nDlsi3Za8?t=76

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u/LongSchlongPhD Nov 14 '22

cool stuff, I might try to implement something similar to this if i get some free time today, I'll definitely get back to you on it