Hi there.

I have this weird problem with my actors. I've made an array of my 3 enemy actors, and I'm using this to check if they are still alive:

    for (i=0; i < badguys.size; i++)
    {
     if (isAlive(badguys[i]))
        badguys[i] waittill( "death" );
        continue;
    }

Now, there is no visible errors with this, as far as I can see, but apparently when it is supposed to run, it doesn't.

Here's the whole script part:

badguys_dead()
{
    badguys = getentarray( "badguys_room2", "targetname" );

    wait 0.01;

    for (i=0; i < badguys.size; i++)
    {
     if (isAlive(badguys[i]))
     {
        badguys[i] waittill( "death" );
        iprintlnbold ( "Badguys dead!" );
     }
        continue;
    }

     wait 2.5;
     
     thread move3();
}

Also, as you can see I'm printing in a message, but it just displays immediately after the thread has started, even when the enemies aren't dead.

I hope someone can help me with this problem.

sure you caught the real actors and not their spawners?

you can use the function waittill_dead or waittill_dead_or_dying from _utility.gsc:

waittill_dead(badguys);

 /* 
 ============= 
///ScriptDocBegin
"Name: waittill_dead( <guys> , <num> , <timeoutLength> )"
"Summary: Waits until all the AI in array < guys > are dead."
"Module: AI"
"CallOn: "
"MandatoryArg: <guys> : Array of actors to wait until dead"
"OptionalArg: <num> : Number of guys that must die for this function to continue"
"OptionalArg: <timeoutLength> : Number of seconds before this function times out and continues"
"Example: waittill_dead( getaiarray( "axis" ) );"
"SPMP: singleplayer"
///ScriptDocEnd
 ============= 
 */ 

Yea I think you're calling it on the spawners.
Use a script to spawn an actor through the spawner, then you can call functions on him:

spawner = getEnt( "my_spawner", "targetname" ); 
guy1 = spawner stalingradSpawn();

Now you can call functions on this actor.
You can also use doSpawn(); but they won't spawn if you can see them, with stalingradSpawn(); they will spawn even if you can see them.

edited on Dec. 21, 2009 12:56 am by jeannotvb

I'm sure I'm giving the function to the real actors as I have spawned them the normal way earlier on in the script:

        
badguys = getentarray( "badguys_room2", "targetname" );
covernodes1 = getnodearray( "covernodes1", "targetname" );

wait 0.5;

for (i = 0; i < badguys.size; i++)
{
badguys[i] stalingradSpawn();
badguys[i] setgoalnode( covernodes1 );
continue;
}    

Else I really don't know how this problem can be solved.

Also I tried the waittill_dead function, but it didn't work either.

badguys[ i] setgoalnode( covernodes1 );

covernodes1 is a node array, not sure if you can pass a node array to setgoalnode(). try passing only one node (e.g. covernodes1[0] or covernodes1[ i] )

I changed the goalnode function, but still nothing. I even tried commenting it out, but again it doesn't work.

I've tried a lot of stuff now, but it just won't do the function.

Btw. here's the whole part with the "badguys":

second_room()
{
    grdoor = getent( "grdoor_trig", "targetname" );
    door = getent( "door2", "targetname" );

    grenade_door waittill( "trigger" );

    wait 0.01;

    thread guy_move_room2();

    door rotateto ( (0, -90, 0), 1.5);
    door waittill( "rotatedone" );

    level.guy2 anim_single_solo( level.guy2, "Someone" );
    wait .2;
    level.guy1 anim_single_solo( level.guy1, "You_know" );
}

guy_move_room2()
{
    thread general_sec_room();

    doorp_node = getnode( "doorp_node", "targetname" );
    door_front_trig = getent( "door_front_trig", "targetname" );
    door = getent( "door2", "targetname" );

    spawner = getent( "sec_guy", "targetname" );
    guy = spawner stalingradSpawn();

    wait 0.01;

    guy.ignoreall = true;
    guy.fixedNode = true;

    wait 0.11;

    door connectpaths();

    guy setgoalnode(doorp_node);

    wait 0.5;

    guy waittill( "death");

    thread move2();
}  

general_sec_room()
{
    badguys = getentarray( "badguys_room2", "targetname" );
    //covernodes1 = getnodearray  "covernodes1", "targetname" );

    wait 0.5;

     for (i = 0; i < badguys.size; i++)
     {
        badguys[i] stalingradSpawn();
        //badguys[i] setgoalnode(covernodes1[i]);
        continue;
     }
}

move2()
{
    thread badguys_dead();

    level.guy1 disable_cqbwalk();
    level.guy2 disable_cqbwalk();
    level.guy3 disable_cqbwalk();

    guy1_cover2 = getnode( "guy1_cover2", "targetname" );
    guy2_cover2 = getnode( "guy2_cover2", "targetname" );
    guy3_cover2 = getnode( "guy3_cover2", "targetname" ); 

    level.guy1 setgoalnode(guy1_cover2);
    level.guy2 setgoalnode(guy2_cover2);
    level.guy3 setgoalnode(guy3_cover2);
}

badguys_dead()
{
    badguys = getentarray( "badguys_room2", "targetname" );

    wait 0.01;

    for (i=0; i < badguys.size; i++)
    {
     if (isAlive(badguys[i]))
     {
        badguys[i] waittill( "death" );
        iprintlnbold ( "Badguys dead!" );
     }
        continue;
    }

     //waittill_dead( badguys );

     wait 1;
     
     thread move3();
}

you get the "grdoor_trig" entity and store it in the variable "grdoor":

grdoor = getent( "grdoor_trig", "targetname" );


but you wait till trigger for "grenade_door" (there is no getent for this entity in your script):

grenade_door waittill( "trigger" )


so you may wanna change it to:

grenade_door = getent( "grdoor_trig", "targetname" );
door = getent( "door2", "targetname" );
grenade_door waittill( "trigger" );


and you should throw that waittill("death") thingy away, it's buggy! use this:

badguys = getentarray( "badguys_room2", "targetname" );

wait 0.05;

waittill_dead( badguys );

Oh, the "grenade_door" was a spelling error, as I changed the name of it, right before I posted the script here, so it's not a problem.

Actually, I got it solved. It was because I had an error in the beginning of the level, but only when I had developer 2 on, which I mostly don't, mainly because of some rappel sound errors, but thanks for helping me out anyway , I still learned something from it.