All my machines work fine except for the hint strings on 2 of the 4 machines.
Revive and Juggernog turn on but still say they have no power.
Double Tap and fast reload turn on and reference corectly!

Any ideas why the two won't say they are on when the switch is thrown?

Yes I can buy from all of them and the perk works fine. It's only the two hint strings.

I had this when someone would spam "F" to try and buy a vending machine WHILE the electric was just starting up.

You can check the "zombie.str" in raw/English/localizedstrings

And double check the "_zombiemode_perks.gsc"

What am I checking for? Why would two work perfect and the other two not?
Are the revive and juggernut different somehow?

I think it's:

self SetHintString( &"ZOMBIE_FLAMES_UNAVAILABLE" );

In zombiemode_perks.gsc

That references:

REFERENCE FLAMES_UNAVAILABLE
LANG_ENGLISH "The power must be activated first"

In zombie.str

But as I said when people spam the F key when the power is starting up it seems to break them occasionally, I'll look into.

We are thinking this is happening because of having more than one door triggered when the switch is thrown

Sgt.Rampage is testing right now

This appears to happen when a user is standing in a perka-cola trigger while the power is being activated. But you can still buy the perks, at least on my map anyway, and I removed those power doors.

I just had an issue where the hint strings for the window barriers did not show up either.

This is so annoying!

Techno, I just looked at the script a bit more. It looks like the perka-cola machines start working after the trigger when they are notified to. So, they are not directly being called to start. From what I understand, they are just waiting for the switch to be pulled, and once it is, it will start them up. So, if it doesn't get notified to start, it never will.
(I am tired, so this probably made no sense haha)

edited on May. 24, 2009 01:06 am by playername

Added alot of stuff to my map. Including some more triggers. Noticing and heard that there might be a trigger limit? Heard through the grape vine that this might be whats causing this. Anyone going through this too?

I don't think there's a trigger limit. But possibly a hint string limit when precaching the hint strings.

I had "max hinstrings 32" error when adding Playernames ammo box script, I deleted one of the new hinstrings and everything was fine again.

Those perk machines that have hint problems actually have those problems on Asylum as well. So we're not doing anything wrong but the new asylum scripts must have a problem.