Killing and respawning a zombie when touching a trig in Scripting

Created on: August 31, 2015, 04:55:27 am

Hey, i need a small script to kill a zombie when they touch a certain trig and respawn the zombie, the trig does not need to be deleted, i need it as a failsafe for another script i have. It barley bugs out but there is that once in 10 rounds it does happen, and the zombies just get stuck in a loop lol. Thanks

Marked as best answer by vinnyz500 10 years ago

Reply #1 on: September 03, 2015, 11:33:21 am

I made a code that should work well if it's only one trigger:

Create a trigger multiple where zombies will die with the following KVPs:
targetname killer_trigger
spawnflags 9
Create an ordinary spawn where you want zombies to respawn, but give it
targetname special_spawners
Now open your MAPNAME.gsc and just bellow this line:

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maps\_zombiemode::main();

Add this:

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thread kill_zombie_on_touch();

And anywhere at bottom of the file add this:

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kill_zombie_on_touch()
{
    trig = getent( "killer_trigger","targetname" );
    zombies = getAIArray( "axis" );

    for(i = 0; i < zombies.size; i++)
    {

        if( isDefined( zombies[i] ) && 
            zombies[i] isTouching( trig ) && 
            !( zombies[i] enemy_is_dog() ) )
        {
            level.zombie_total ++;
            spawner = getEnt( "special_spawners","targetname" );

            //USE ONLY ONE OF THIS OR ANY OTHER ANIMATION.------------------------
            //zombies[i] maps\_zombiemode_spawner::zombie_head_gib();    //HEAD EXPLODES
            zombies[i] thread animscripts\death::flame_death_fx();    //BURNS THEM
            //---------------------------------------------------------------------

            zombies[i] dodamage( zombies[i].health + 666, zombies[i].origin );
            spawn_zombie( spawner );
        }
    }

    wait(0.1);
    thread kill_zombie_on_touch();
}

I'm sure there are better ways to do it but this seems to work fine. But one bad point is that zombies leave powerups and I don't know how to fix it.

Well, hope it helps you.

Reply #2 on: September 03, 2015, 11:38:26 pm

MakeCents
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Quote from: Soy-Yo on September 03, 2015, 11:33:21 am

I made a code that should work well if it's only one trigger:

It's a pretty good try.

+1 I like the flame death. You don't need to thread it recursively and exponentially though. You could end up with that too many vars error. You have a trigger so go ahead and use it. With a slight modification it should continue to work but not run the code over and over for the same zombies:

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kill_zombie_on_touch()
{
    trig = getent( "killer_trigger","targetname" );
    // zombies = getAIArray( "axis" );

    // for(i = 0; i < zombies.size; i++)
    while(1)
    {
        trig waittill("trigger", zombie);
        if( isAlive( zombie ) &&  
            !( zombie enemy_is_dog() ) )
        {
            level.zombie_total ++;
            spawner = getEnt( "special_spawners","targetname" );

            //USE ONLY ONE OF THIS OR ANY OTHER ANIMATION.------------------------
            //zombies[i] maps\_zombiemode_spawner::zombie_head_gib();    //HEAD EXPLODES
            zombie thread animscripts\death::flame_death_fx();    //BURNS THEM
            //---------------------------------------------------------------------

            zombie dodamage( zombie.health + 666, zombie.origin );
            spawn_zombie( spawner );
        }
    }

    wait(0.1);
    // thread kill_zombie_on_touch();
}

With a little more modification we can have multiple triggers and randomize spawns:

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kill_zombie_on_touch(){
    trigs = getentarray( "killer_trigger","targetname" );
    array_thread(trigs,::KillZombieOnTouch);
}
KillZombieOnTouch()
{ 
    while(1)
    {
        trig waittill("trigger", zombie);
        if( isAlive( zombie ) &&  
            !( zombie enemy_is_dog() ) )
        {
            level.zombie_total ++;
            spawner = array_randomize(getEntArray( "special_spawners","targetname" ))[0];

            //USE ONLY ONE OF THIS OR ANY OTHER ANIMATION.------------------------
            //zombies[i] maps\_zombiemode_spawner::zombie_head_gib();    //HEAD EXPLODES
            zombie thread animscripts\death::flame_death_fx();    //BURNS THEM
            //---------------------------------------------------------------------

            zombie dodamage( zombie.health + 666, zombie.origin );
            if(isDefined(spawner)) spawn_zombie( spawner );
        }
    }

    wait(0.1);
}

Not tested, sorry for any errors. The theory is my point.

Also, for no powerups, simply don't put the playable area trigger there.

Last Edit: September 03, 2015, 11:57:06 pm by MakeCents

Reply #3 on: September 04, 2015, 01:17:01 am

Thanks to both of you, will be very useful

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