The Parent to bone relationship now works realtime allowing for simple collision shells on armature deformed characters and simple setup of robotic style limbs/systems.
New Armature hooks allow Edit Object>Replace mesh actuators to work on deformed meshs, This means character meshs can be swapped allowing for changeable clothing, different meshs for different damage levels, LOD etc.
New Joystick Sensor adds support for 4 axis (dual stick), 18 buttons and 2 directional hats. Logic bricks are by nature digital therefor analogue joystick access can only be achieved via python, this uses sen.getAxisValue() which returns a list of 4 variables [00,01,10,11] (stick,axis)
Sensors set to read from a Hat use a bitmask for the Direction value.
Hat Directions
1 = Up
2 = Right
4 = Down
8 = Left
(for diagonals, add the component values, i.e. Up+Left = 1+8 = 9)
The depth (from camera) of a poly can be artificially shortened slightly using zoffs in materials, this is helpful for forcing one mesh to the front when there are two surfaces at a similar or identical location.
Simple method for getting the distance between the owner object and a named target.
e.g. (where the target object is called 'Name')
import GameLogic
own = GameLogic.getCurrentController().getOwner()
Target = GameLogic.getCurrentScene().getObjectList()["OBName"]
print own.getDistanceTo(Target)
Code by Kester Maddock. Release log: OOPz