moving an object during 3 seconds

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
1

Hi, using the addActiveActuator i can start the movement of an object but can’t find how to stop it after 3 seconds, i don’t want the object to dissapear, just stop it where it was when time finished

2

GameLogic.addActiveActuator(act, 0) should stop it

3

Don’t know why doesn’t stop it,
it executes the line GL.addActiveActuator(rotate,0)
it prints in the console “before” and “after” but doesn’t stop the Actuator

 import GameLogic as GL
import Rasterizer as R
R.showMouse(1)
cont3 = GL.getCurrentController()
own = cont3.getOwner()
leftclick = cont3.getSensor("leftclick")
mouseover = cont3.getSensor("mouseover")
rotate = cont3.getActuator("rotate")
if leftclick.isPositive() and mouseover.isPositive():
	GL.addActiveActuator(rotate,1)
	three = ['a','b','c']
	for x in three:
		print x	
	if (x == 'c'):
		print"before"
		GL.addActiveActuator(rotate,0)
		print"after"
4

You have to remember your dealing with a physics engine. So, if you remove a force, depending on how the dampen is set, etc, it will keep spinning. Something I do is set up a very simple situation, like a cube spinning, and play around with it until I get a good understanding. Then I take that knowledge and put it in my main program.

I’m just taking a wild guess from your other posts, but maybe you want the “track to” option of the edit object actuator instead.