Hello everyone!

In my map I want a light that follows the player that is representing a flashlight, I got this script from zombiemodding that Yaphil made, and that was only for if you wanted the light all the time in a game if you putted the script in mapname.gsc under zombiemode::main but in my map I want the light to activate when activating a trigger, so I have been editing the script a little so it is in a gsc file itself and then I putted the line in mapname.gsc so the map connects to the script, Hope you know what I mean.
The map is loading, yes that is great, but when activating the trigger the light does'nt show up. Any ideas?

But I tested to only put the script normally as Yaphil said in mapname.gsc and then it worked but that is not when activating a trigger. But this is how the light script looks like when I edit it.

#include common_scripts\utility;
#include maps\_utility;
#include maps\_zombiemode_utility;

flashlight()
{
level._effect ["flashlight"] = loadFX ("env/light/fx_lights_lantern_on"); //this may need to go in building horror.gsc in the fx section
trigger = getent ("flashlight" , "targetname");
trigger SetCursorHint( "HINT_NOICON" );
trigger SetHintString( "Press &&1 to pick up flashlight." );
trigger waittill ("trigger", user); //
players = get_players();
for(i = 0; i < players.size; i++)
{
// Places the FX roughly at half of the player's height
ent = Spawn("script_model", players.origin + (32, 0, 0));
ent SetModel("tag_origin");
playFxOnTag(level._effect["fx_lights_lantern_on"], ent, "tag_origin");
ent LinkTo(players);
trigger delete();

}
}
//the end

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Post Merge: November 29, 2013, 02:35:25 pm

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Opps I am so sorry that I did not place the script in a script window, I did that but for some reason it did'nt do it, sorry.

you cant link entities to a whole array of entities.
replace this:

ent LinkTo(players);

with this:

for(i = 0;i<players.size;i++)
{
  ent LinkTo(players[i]);
}

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have made such a mistake. Must've somehow been lost while copying / editing the code.
Also, Ray, while your answer is generally not wrong, there already is a loop over the players in this piece of code, so you shouldn't do another loop inside the first one.
Here's my original post on ZM with the correct code:
http://www.zombiemodding.com/index.php?topic=13068.msg129452#msg129452
EDIT: Just noticed, in that post, I indeed did put the indexers for the players array. So they really must've been lost somehow.

- Phil.

I tested your idea Ray but there are still no light, maybe the fx I have in this script is not good, maybe I should find an another fx.
Or could it be something wrong with this line that I have to adjust the numbers a little. Am I wrong? propably........
ent = Spawn("script_model", players.origin + (32, 0, 0));

Or does it even work to have this light script with a trigger in a gsc itself?
Or does this only work with the way as you Phil said at zombiemodding?

Yes, it will work with a trigger too. Also

(32, 0, 0)

will not have the FX's height adjusted, but you might want to not have the FX at height 0.

- Phil.

fix these and it should work

//

players.origin[i]
playFxOnTag(level._effect["flashlight"], ent, "tag_origin");

players.origin[i]

That's wrong. At least for what this code is supposed to do.

- Phil.

Hmm, there has to be something that is not right with this script, maybe it is just some simple fix that we have'nt thought about.

It is working if you just put the regular one of the script in the mapname.gsc, it is like the script just refuse to work the way I want it to work.