Controlling a vehicle with text

Development Programming & Scripting
,
1

Hi all,
Im fairly new to this but been experimenting with world building, texture blueprints and such. I wondered if there was a way to control a vehicle, or static mesh, using a text based commands rather than a controller. I’d want something where a user could type something like the following to move the object.

Rotate 45 degrees
Move 10 meters
stop
rotate -45 degrees
move 15 meters
stop.

Something that moves like a old tracked vehicle?

Id appricate any feedback on whether, or how, this can be done.

Thanks.

2

you can capture text in a widget then you could use a switch on string to decide the actions, but you’d need something to parse and validate the string first

im not sure off the top of my head if there is a text to float for the numbers but shouldnt be too hard

2 Likes
3

Yeah I think I tested something like this a long time ago essentially you tokenize your string and then run commands based on the tokens

2 Likes
4

Great! thanks all, I’ll give it a try