How to release possessed Robot?

[Martin Anon]

Hi all. I'm a bit late to the party..as usual :)

Hoping somebody could show me how to release a possesed charactor.

What I've done is added another droid (BigRobot) and another button that I use to control him.  I want to be able to possess him whenever he's needed. I can get possession, and then I can get control back to my main charactor again, however, once he's been possesed he cannot be possessed again! He also continues to show the sparks.
What should I be doing to release him in a way that lets me repossess him again?

My coding background is vb6, and this is my first adventure into Java and Chris's RI code is a fantastic way for me to learn, thanks Chris.

[Chris Pruett]

It’s been a while, but maybe take a look at the robot spawner object rather than the BroBots themselves?  The spawner can be possessed multiple times and doesn’t throw components away (I think).

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[Martin Anon]

Hi Thanks for the reply.

I checked out the spawner but it cannot be possessed, I think in an earlier version it could be. Turrets and switches can be possessed and a quick look at those has helped me on my way.

I keep seeing mention of a peice of code released by you called spritetest, do you know of any links for the source? I'd really like to study it.

Thanks again for your help.

[Leo Cedric]

Hi Martin, hoping to give you a direction here, its been a while since i had to deal with this scenario.

basically possession work by Swapping component in and out of an object.

1- if you make use of ChangeComponentsComponent.class  , you should be abble to define for your "main character" and your "second character" what component to swamp in and out like Chris did with "public GameObject spawnEnemyBrobot("  inside "GameObjectFactory"

2- you should also be able to define a condition when the swap need to happen, like "during Collision" inside "HitReactionComponent" or even "on touch of screen button" , the key here will be to ensure that you "activate" and ensure to "deactivate" the swap to restore initial components. you can also look at the method "setPingPongBehavior".

cheers