VEX: import() pulling in the wrong values

[Adam Ferestad]

I am writing a simulation for a school project, and for some reason, one of my nodes is importing the wrong values for attributes from the points.  

    import("north", north,0);
    import("south",south,0);
    import("east",east,0);
    import("west",west,0);

All of the attributes are correct on the points, but they are not being imported correctly.  I have several other attributes being imported at the same time, and they all are coming in right, just not these 4.  I output the values for north, south, east, and west, and they are coming in as true for north on all of them all the time, then false for all other directions.  This is definitely not the case, since they are being pulled from other geometry and change as the simulation progresses.  It is getting really annoying to have this problem, so if anyone can help me figure it out... please please please help.

 

Edit: Note: the problem is in the code for the turn behavior.

car-behaviors.otl

Development.hipnc

Edited April 26, 2014 by Adam Ferestad

[anim]

your north, south, east, west are float attributes and you are importing them to int variables, so houdini wants to read int attribute which it doesn't  find so you will end up with garbage values

 

just change your north, south, east, west attributes type to int when defining them

[Adam Ferestad]

Oh derp... thanks.  That piece is working fine now.  I still have to do some work with my code for driving straight, but at least the turns are working as they should.  That was a huge help.