I am making a new map and in the map I have a birdge over a small canal. The idea is to have the SD spawn point for the attackers at 1 side of the water and the targets at the other side. The easiest way to the targets is crossing the bridge but to make things more difficult for the attacking team I want to have the option to destroy the bridge by the defenders. A bit like in the map Commando where you need to detonate the bomb on the gate to let it explode so you can go through it. I have made a bridge as prefab and placed it in my map.

Having taken a look at the script used in this map it doesn't use the exploders script but deletes the gate and shows the destroyed parts.

I have seen the exploder tut and wondered if I could convert the prefab in such a way to incorporate the items of the exploder tut into it. Make a prefab of a destroyed bridge and do the same and make it appear when the explosion occurs.

If some of you have experience with this I would like to know.

Thanks in advance

edited on Mar. 4, 2010 07:09 am by rob034

Enter the prefab of your bridge - Exploders in different prefabs will not work together.

I could have exploder 1 in the map - and exploder 1 in a prefab, they won't work in game.

The reason for this (I assume) is so that, let's say you make a prefab of a destroyable fence (so the fence is script exploders and just saved and loaded into your map as a prefab), you could have that fence copied multiple times, now all the fences have script_exploder blah on them but when you compile an run, you shoot one and only one will destroy/explode.

So what's happening I guess is the compiler changes the number on the exploder during compile to make them all different.

well i know that in cod4 you can put some exploders into prefabs, idk if in cod2 it has that same feature. although you have to give them key values of

script_prefab_exploder
# ( <--- the number of our choice )

of course if you have another exploder in your map with the same value as the script prefab, then both will blow up as the same time that whenever you call either one of them.

hope that helps.

So I have done the following.

1. I created a prefab of the bridge and selected all brushes and made them a script-brushmodel. I named them bridge.
2. I created a second prefab, this time of a destroyed bridge, selected again all brushes and made them a script_brushmodel and named these bridge_destroyed.
3. I placed both prefab models on exact the same location in my map.
4. I created another prefab to be used as detonator, the handle of the detonator I made a script_brushmodel again and named it detonator_up.
5. I placed the trigger prefab in my map and place a trigger_use around it. Named the trigger -> trigger_bridge

Saved the map and made the following script

main()
{
// load fx
level._effect["water_explosion"] = loadfx ("fx/explosions/dock_explosion.efx");
level._effect["bridge_explosion"] = loadfx ("fx/explosions/eldaba_boat_explosion.efx");
level._effect["water_hit"] = loadfx ("fx/explosions/large_waterhit_rhine.efx");


// go to explosion thread
thread blow_bridge();
}

// explosion thread
blow_bridge()
{
// define the model before the explosion
before_exp = getent("bridge","targetname");

// define the model after the explosion
after_exp = getent("bridge_destroyed","targetname");

// Define the trigger
trigger = getent("trigger_bridge","targetname");

//Define the handle on the detonator
handle = getent(""detonator_up","targetname");

// Determine the location of the effect and sound
fxorigin_1 = getent("bridge_explosionfx","targetname");
fxorigin_2 = getent("water_explosion","targetname");
fxorigin_3 = getent("water_hit","targetname");


//show the bridge before the explosion as solid and hide the destroyed bridge
before_exp show();
before_exp solid():
after_exp hide();
after_exp notsolid();

// wait for the trigger to be activated and move the handle of the detonator
trigger waittill("trigger");
trigger playsound ("US_1_order_cover_detonation");
wait(2);
handle rotateyaw(-90, 0.2);
handle playsound("detone");

wait(0.3);

handle movez(-7, 0.2);
wait(0.2);
handle playsound("minefield_click");

// Play fx
playfx (level._effect["bridge_explosion"], fxorigin_1.origin);

// Create damage in the area
radiusDamage (fxorigin_1.origin, 2000, 2000, 0);

// Shake the earth in the area of the explosion
earthquake(0.3, 3, fxorigin_1.origin, 400);

// Play the explosion sounds
fxorigin_1 playsound ("exp_armoredcar");

//splash the water underneath and around the bridge
wait(0.1);
playfx (level._effect["water_explosion"], fxorigin_2.origin);
playfx (level._effect["water_hit"], fxorigin_3.origin);
fxorigin_2 playsound("truck_splash");

// Hide the model of the bridge from before the explosion and make it non solid
before_exp hide();
before_exp notsolid();

// Show the destroyed bridge after the explosion and make it solid
after_exp show();
after_exp solid();
}

When I run this a get an error "Bad syntax
Can some one tell me where it goes wrong.

edited on Mar. 4, 2010 11:19 am by rob034

handle = getent(""detonator_up","targetname");

Let's see if you can spot it.

Yup, /developer 1 helps in these situations.

Setting this before loading map will give you the error location straight away.

lol just tell him he put an extra set of quotes in the ( " " detatnotaor_...

also i think theres ways of having somethings in radiant do some of the job you have done in scripting but either way is fine. just saying in case you didnt know.

Thanks for the help, I managed to get a few of these typo's out of the script and now it comes up with a whole different error, see below:

********* script run time error *******
undefined is not an array, string, or vector, (file 'maps/mp/_load.gsc', line 113)
if (!isdefined (level._effect["latern_light"]))

called from:
(file 'maps/mp/_load.gsc', line 12)
laterns[i] thread laterns();

called from:
(file 'maps/mp/mp_veghel.gsc', line 3)
maps/mp/_load::main();

started from:
(file 'maps/mp/mp_veghel.gsc', line 1)
main()
*
********************************************

Do you guys have any idea what this is about?

In your main() function, add this before your level._effect definitions.

maps\mp\_load::main();

its not recognizing your array of light effects. i think this is maybe because theres one entity? if so then its getent( blah blah bla. Try and see if that works, or maybe u forgot to compile? idk re post your entire script so we can see what it really looks like.