Tracking and plotting characters movement

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Hello,

Today I just discovered that blender has a game engine and now I am trying to figure out how it works. I would like to use blender to develop mazes and have people navigate through them. So far I have been able to create a maze and a character with a 1st person view. Now what I am trying to do is track the location of the character and print out a time table which contains the x,y,z locations. Is there a function in blender which can do this?

My future plan is once I can print out xyz, I will change the speed which the character can travel and measure how fast the character was moving and where they were positioned during the navigation through the maze.

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Hi Hojo, here is a link to the bge api. The KX_GameObject has properties to get position / speed and the like: https://www.blender.org/api/blender_python_api_2_77_0/bge.types.KX_GameObject.html#bge.types.KX_GameObject.worldPosition

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After that add change the python code something like:


#import bge files
import bge
#get current controller
cont = bge.logic.getCurrentController()
#get owner
own = cont.owner
#print owner's world positions
print(own.worldPosition)
print(own.worldPosition.x)
print(own.worldPosition.y)
print(own.worldPosition.z)