Making a turtle move from within its hosted peripheral

Hi there.

on the back of "fixing" OpenCCSensors ;)/> …. well, a tiny little buglet - [ see their thread ] …. can anyone pay me a solid in return:


can anyone cleverer than i advise if there is any way of moving a turtle within a turtle peripheral other than with setDirection and teleportTo?

i have a lovely peripheral which i'm making, but i want the peripheral to command the turtle to move [dependent on a thing]
and whilst insta-teleporting and insta-turning with setDirection will "get me there" - it's not really the nice elegant journey I want :)/>


i was wondering initially if the executeCommand(ILuaContext context, ITurtleCommand command) would allow this, but looking deeper, it seems not…
seems weird to be a turtle's peripheral and not be able to make the turtle itself do the equivalent of the lua "turtle.forward()" etc…

either
a ) i'm missing something obvious; or
b ) i'm not

:)/>

many thankity thanks in advance.

I believe this belongs in the "Peripheral Help and Discussion" section.

Anyway, I'm not too experienced with peripheral development but having a quick look at ITurtleAccess, it appears to me that you need to play the moving animation manually with ITurtleAccess.playAnimation(TurtleAnimation).

Lignum, on 19 June 2014 - 08:10 PM said:

I believe this belongs in the "Peripheral Help and Discussion" section.

very true… was thinking it was a pro cc question when that's really just usage of cc not coding the api, sorry about that… if it can be moved - that'd be cool by me.

Lignum, on 19 June 2014 - 08:10 PM said:

Anyway, I'm not too experienced with peripheral development but having a quick look at ITurtleAccess, it appears to me that you need to play the moving animation manually with ITurtleAccess.playAnimation(TurtleAnimation).

derp. you're right… for some reason i'd scanned that method as being simply for tool animation… but now i look again, i seeeee….

many thanks.

You're welcome.

update…

aye, it seems it's a combination of both.

i first used ITurtleAccess.teleportTo(World world, int x, int y, int z) to teleport the turtle.
and followed that directly with ITurtleAccess.playAnimation(TurtleAnimation animation) to make turtle do the teleport in it's proper smooth way

perfect.

many thanks again for pointing me at my lack of reading… [ i'd seen that it was "ToDo" documented at the top level of ITurtleAccess and stopped there as it's name wasn't a giveaway for what i thought i wanted ]

ingie, on 20 June 2014 - 01:14 AM said:

Lignum, on 19 June 2014 - 08:10 PM said:

I believe this belongs in the "Peripheral Help and Discussion" section.

very true… was thinking it was a pro cc question when that's really just usage of cc not coding the api, sorry about that… if it can be moved - that'd be cool by me.

You can report your post if you'd like it moved.

I'm fine with the topic being either here or there, but in Ask a Pro, it's likely to be seen by a wider audience.