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Please provide a way to read the player's position without the mech suit "bob".

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2025 11:31 pm

by micromario

I asked in the Discord we couldn't find any workarounds.

Here's a video as to why this is needed (factorissimo 3):

Screencast_20250804_180842.webm: (1.66 MiB) Downloaded 20 times

Resolves https://github.com/notnotmelon/factoris ... issues/215

It would also be nice to have `LuaPlayer.is_flying`

Re: Please provide a way to read the player's position without the mech suit "bob".

Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2025 3:53 pm

by Rseding91

I've added the following for the next release:

- Added LuaControl::render_position read.
- Added LuaControl::flight_height read.
- Added LuaControl::is_flying read.