[Tutorial] Shootable Triggers in Scripting

Reply #75 on: July 18, 2017, 05:09:39 am

Can you tell me how to allow the trigger to activate only when the tesla_gun fires at the trigger ?

Reply #76 on: July 18, 2017, 06:16:28 pm

Quote from: leonardo745 on July 18, 2017, 05:09:39 am

Can you tell me how to allow the trigger to activate only when the tesla_gun fires at the trigger ?

You can check what gun they have using getCurrentWeapon() and if the current weapon is the tesla_gun, you can do whatever you want after that.

Reply #77 on: July 18, 2017, 11:49:09 pm

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You can check what gun they have using getCurrentWeapon() and if the current weapon is the tesla_gun, you can do whatever you want after that.

Like this ? (Did not work)

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while(1)
    {
    	trig_1 waittill("trigger", player);
    	current_weapon = player GetCurrentWeapon();
    	if(current_weapon == "tesla_gun")
    	{   		       
       		        playfx(level._effect["powerup_grabbed"] ,GetEnt("trig_shootable","targetname").origin);
			playfx(level._effect["elec_transformer_rod"] ,GetEnt("transformer_rod_7","targetname").origin);
 			playfx(level._effect["elec_transformer_rod"] ,GetEnt("transformer_rod_8","targetname").origin);
 			playfx(level._effect["elec_transformer_rod"] ,GetEnt("transformer_rod_9","targetname").origin);
 			playfx(level._effect["elec_transformer_fx"] ,GetEnt("elec_transformer_1","targetname").origin);
 		}
    }

Last Edit: July 19, 2017, 03:08:25 am by Sidzzz

Reply #78 on: July 19, 2017, 04:11:20 pm

you might need to use this

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weapon = getWeapon("tesla_gun");

are you getting errors while linking your scripts?
Have you done all the necessary steps to make those fx play?

I can't really test anything at the moment because my game won't open

Reply #79 on: July 20, 2017, 01:31:38 am

Quote from: Wolfilms on July 19, 2017, 04:11:20 pm

you might need to use this
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weapon = getWeapon("tesla_gun");
are you getting errors while linking your scripts?
Have you done all the necessary steps to make those fx play?
I can't really test anything at the moment because my game won't open

When I use this:

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weapon = getWeapon("tesla_gun");

I'm get errors while linking, but when I use the code that I sent, it links but does not work in the game, and when I use without checking the weapon, the effects appear without any problem.

Reply #80 on: July 20, 2017, 03:26:54 pm

Well, I stumbled upon this topic while searching through the help section. Hope this helps

http://ugx-mods.com/forum/index.php/topic,13911.0.html

someone in the topic mentioned that it worked for them.

Reply #81 on: July 20, 2017, 04:57:17 pm

Quote from: Wolfilms on July 20, 2017, 03:26:54 pm

Well, I stumbled upon this topic while searching through the help section. Hope this helps

http://ugx-mods.com/forum/index.php/topic,13911.0.html

someone in the topic mentioned that it worked for them.

Thank you very much, it worked for me too !!

Reply #82 on: July 20, 2017, 09:43:34 pm

Archaicvirus
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I re-wrote the script to be much shorter, and more flexible. I'm not trying to step on your toes, or 1-up you or anything like that. Just figured this might help, especially if you are busy and I know you've mentioned updating the script anyways, so maybe this will save you the trouble. If you don't use it that's fine also, no offense taken. I'm not the best scripter, but pretty decent I believe, lol. Here it is.

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//Follow the same steps in the tutorial, 
//except name all the triggers shootable_trig, 
//and don't add numbers to them. 
//Then make each trigger target it's bottle by selecting the trigger first, 
//then select the bottle, hit W in radiant to link them.
//Now you can place as many of these as you want, without having to change anything in script.
//Let's get them all as an array 
//instead of writing a seperate function for each bottle, and with no 'while()' loops eating memory

function init()
{
	trigs = GetEntArray("shootable_trig", "targetname");
	level.shootablesNeeded = trigs.size;
	level.shootablesCollected = 0;
    
	foreach(trig in trigs)
        {
    	    trig SetHintString("");
    	    trig SetCursorHint("HINT_NOICON");
    	    trig.bottle = GetEnt(trig.target, "targetname");
    	    trig thread trig_wait();
        }
}

function trig_wait()
{
	self waittill("trigger");
	self.bottle Delete();
	level.shootablesCollected++;
	if(level.shootablesCollected >= level.shootablesNeeded)
	{
		level thread reward();
	}
	IPrintLnBold("Shootables collected = ["+level.shootablesCollected+"]");
}

function reward()
{
	IPrintLnBold("Reward given");
	//insert reward code here
}

Last Edit: July 20, 2017, 09:47:11 pm by Archaicvirus

Reply #83 on: July 20, 2017, 10:02:13 pm

Quote from: leonardo745 on July 20, 2017, 04:57:17 pm

Thank you very much, it worked for me too !!

No problem

leonardo745, looking back at your original code, I noticed you weren't getting the trigger using

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trig_1 getEnt("whatever", "targetname");

so the game never knew what trigger it was looking for

Reply #84 on: July 20, 2017, 10:23:26 pm

Quote from: Wolfilms on July 20, 2017, 10:02:13 pm

No problem

leonardo745, looking back at your original code, I noticed you weren't getting the trigger using
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trig_1 getEnt("whatever", "targetname");
so the game never knew what trigger it was looking for

I was, I just forgot to put it here.
My problem is the time to say which weapon I wanted the game to check.
Now my code looks like this:

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    trig_1 = GetEnt("trig_shootable", "targetname");
    trig_1 SetHintString("");
    trig_1 SetCursorHint("HINT_NOICON");
    level.etapas = 0;
    correctweapon = GetWeapon("tesla_gun");

    while(1)
    {
    	trig_1 waittill("trigger", player);
    	usingweapon = player GetCurrentWeapon();
    	if(level.powerstatus >= level.poweron)
    	{
    		if(usingweapon == correctweapon)
    		{
       			        playfx(level._effect["powerup_grabbed"] ,GetEnt("trig_shootable","targetname").origin);

				playfx(level._effect["elec_transformer_rod"] ,(-228, -1111, 116), (0,0,0));
 				playfx(level._effect["elec_transformer_rod"] ,(-249, -1098, 116), (0,0,0));
 				playfx(level._effect["elec_transformer_rod"] ,(-269, -1086, 116), (0,0,0));

 				playfx(level._effect["elec_transformer_fx"] ,(-232, -1069, 83), (35, 58 ,0));
 				//playfx(level._effect["elec_transformer_fx"] ,GetEnt("elec_transformer_1","targetname").angles);
 				
 			}
    	}
    }

Reply #85 on: July 20, 2017, 10:29:23 pm

Quote from: Archaicvirus on July 20, 2017, 09:43:34 pm

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//Follow the same steps in the tutorial, 
//except name all the triggers shootable_trig, 
//and don't add numbers to them. 
//Then make each trigger target it's bottle by selecting the trigger first, 
//then select the bottle, hit W in radiant to link them.
//Now you can place as many of these as you want, without having to change anything in script.
//Let's get them all as an array 
//instead of writing a seperate function for each bottle, and with no 'while()' loops eating memory

function init()
{
	trigs = GetEntArray("shootable_trig", "targetname");
	level.shootablesNeeded = trigs.size;
	level.shootablesCollected = 0;
    
	foreach(trig in trigs)
        {
    	    trig SetHintString("");
    	    trig SetCursorHint("HINT_NOICON");
    	    trig.bottle = GetEnt(trig.target, "targetname");
    	    trig thread trig_wait();
        }
}

function trig_wait()
{
	self waittill("trigger");
	self.bottle Delete();
	level.shootablesCollected++;
	if(level.shootablesCollected >= level.shootablesNeeded)
	{
		level thread reward();
	}
	IPrintLnBold("Shootables collected = ["+level.shootablesCollected+"]");
}

function reward()
{
	IPrintLnBold("Reward given");
	//insert reward code here
}

Thanks, this will help me a lot !!

Reply #86 on: July 21, 2017, 02:42:24 am

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No problemo

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[Tutorial] Shootable Triggers