Common functions

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I finally made a module of some very useful bge functions. These I use in nearly every script I’ve ever written.
Inside the zip are both the module and the documentation for it.

You’ll need to have a basic knowledge of python to use these properly.

To use these functions:


import common

#Get an object from inactive layer with property bullet
common.getFunct.objectFromProperty('bullet', 'LevelScene', 'Inactive')

Version 1:
Features:

  • Objects from name
  • Objects from property
  • Children from property
  • Scene from name
  • Percent
  • Angle between two objects
  • Line of sight between two objects
  • Get all addObject actuators
  • Activate a list of actuators
  • Game Path
  • Game Path up a level (if you are running from inside a data folder)

Download:
common v1.zip (19.2 KB)

Have fun with it, and let me know what else I should add.

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Hello sdfgeoff

thank you very much for sharing!
Great work…I guess, I know nothing about Python! :wink:

That’s why I’m asking you, if you could make some basic examples about how to use those functions?
It’ll be an useful resource, I’m sure!

Bye

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Hi sdfgeoff,

Thank you for your work. Good to hear, you can take a crtics.

IMHO / on # by python coder
I dont see a too much of need for the module, which is containing a functions with a just few lines of code.

You can easily a copy/paste needed parts to your main code/s, and modify as needed.

It would be a different story, if module is containing a very complex function/s codes and is maintained by provider.
IMHO / off

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@OTO:
None of these functions can be used outside of another python script, so I can’t really give examples of how to use them.

@Xjazz:
Yes each function is short, but they are used very often, hence it’s function. In multi-script games (like DEEP Space, where I have ~8 scripts), I use these functions in all of them, and don’t want to have too many duplicates to maintain.

I am planning some longer ones, like my ‘getBestToTrackTo’ function. It just needs some cleaning up to fit in with the rest of the module.

Suggestions for other functions are welcome

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Hi sdfgeoff

Ok. I understand now, why you want to have it that way. It makes totally a sense in that scenario.