Use Brain-Crane in your levels without Move

[fumetsusozo]

Hey just wanted to talk about a Fun little tidbit some of you may or may not have known.
Lets say you'd like to use the Brain-Crane in your level without the user having to need a Move?
well no problem, Long as your OK with it being a Sackbot level anyways.
just take out a movinator and the hook the wires to normal buttons, like R1 or whatever on a DCS. *mew

if you hook up everything right and easy. and set a controlled bot to be able to use the Brain-Crane,
you can now make levels using the Brain-Crane without the user needing to turn on a Move.

I've no idea how many people know about this, as i've not heard people talking about it.
but for these who did not know, I'm just telling ya, was something I found-out just today.
*mew-

Edit: step by step basic tutorial.
So here are all the basic things you can to do in order to make a Bot level
with a Brain-Crane without the player needing a Move controller.

Step 1: create yourself a basic controllable Sackbot... you know the dill.
a transmitting controllernator on a block or whatever and a receiver controllernator on the Bot.
set to the same color in the settings of course.

Step 2: place a Movinator also on the Bot.

Step 3: hook the outputs from the receiver controllernator to the inputs of the Movinator.
here's a basic button set up below that should get you started good.
Hook R2 to the T button.
Hook Right stick Left/right to the Horizontal rotation Left/right
Hook Right stick Up/down to the Vertical rotation Up/down...
there, done. but them control setups may not be the best.
keep messing around until you come across something you like good.

now just sit down a grabbable material. jump in the controllernator on the block
and pickup the material, ETC. it'll work just fine. there ya go. have fun. *mew

Here's a pic below to help ya see it all little better.


PS: Seems there may be a bug where the way I shown won't work, if so, then do 1 of the following below.

1: Here’s the most easy fix. Remapping all the controls.
Here is what I mean. Set the controllernator on the Bot to override-bot "NO"
Then connect all the normal controls over to the movinater.
Example. Hook the DCS left analog stick to the left analog stick on the movinater, ETC.
Until you got all the button controls you want to be useable set up working.

2: here's yet another way to fix it if you can't get what I shown in the pics to work.
pick up the DCS on the Bot and move it around a bit, then place it back down.
and maybe do so to the movinator on the bot as well.
at least that was 1 way that fixed it for me when I got the problem.

3: again, another way that can work. change the receiver controllernator override sackbot to no.
then add another receiver controllernator and set it to override sackbot to yes.
then put it right next to the DCS and Movinator on the bot.

[GribbleGrunger]

put this in the tutorial section, it'll be lost here and it's interesting

[fumetsusozo]

put this in the tutorial section, it'll be lost here and it's interesting

Don't know If I'd count this as a tutorial... but whatever is fine with me~
also I'm pretty sure the topic will get lost no matter where it's resides at.
*mew

[GribbleGrunger]

Don't know If I'd count this as a tutorial... but whatever is fine with me~
also I'm pretty sure the topic will get lost no matter where it's resides at.
*mew

well yeah it will eventually get lost but it stands more chance of being seen in the tutorial thread. i didn't know this and i'm sure many others didn't either

[fumetsusozo]

i didn't know this and I'm sure many others didn't either

Cool to know~ I just found out by playing around in create-mode like always.
was feeling to lazy to turn on my Move in order to mess with the Brain-Crane.
so I was thinking well... Bots can also use the Brain-Crane so I see no reason we can't remap
the buttons to a normal controller. and boom! easy pie~
if ya want I can go make a real tutorial later to show everything step by step...
even though honestly it's not hard to think how to set it all up. *mew

[GribbleGrunger]

get it done quick, i'm sure there will be many people already considering expanding on what they just read here... i promise you i won't

heck, i couldn't lol

[fumetsusozo]

get it done quick, i'm sure there will be many people already considering expanding on what they just read here... i promise you i won't

heck, i couldn't lol

Ok then. I'll try to have it up in a hour or 2. *mew

[GribbleGrunger]

Ok then. I'll try to have it up in a hour or 2. *mew

lol... what's with the *mew?

[fumetsusozo]

lol... what's with the *mew?

Somehow I get the feeling you've no idea who I am. *mew

[GribbleGrunger]

Somehow I get the feeling you've no idea who I am. *mew

ok, so i'm intrigued, fill me in on who you are

[fumetsusozo]

ok, so i'm intrigued, fill me in on who you are

xD
I'm Fumetsusozo~ the silly heaven-dragon guy~ :P
I'm very active on this forum. I post here almost everyday for over a year now... :0
and I'm very well known for my way of talking/mewing if you will, on here... and a good handful of other places. xD *mew

[GribbleGrunger]

lol... now i fully understand *woof

[fumetsusozo]

Simple Tutorial added to OP. If mods like to move this topic to the tutorials section. Go ahead. *mew

[lve_msg]

This?

[fumetsusozo]

This?

This what? I've not really played other people's levels yet sense MovePack came out.
So i've no idea what that level is about.

And like I said. I've not seen people talk about it on this forum yet to my memory.
anyways this is a just a small helpful tip for LBPC readers. never said I came up with the idea first. *mew