hello its me again!

Is it possible to let a trigger move?
I want to give a player a special iprintlnbold in a special moment and thought I could make a text trigger and let it move to a position when this position gets hit by mortar. when the mortar shoots an a player is in that area he should recieve a iprintlnbold that this area isn t save.

thanks in advance for helping. hope theres a way...

LOL, why don't use use the move function? I am pretty sure it will work. Just use the moveto function to the mortar area. Or you don't have to use a trigger, just when the player gets hit, you can make it show up the message. Try it out.

Or just use the distance function to see if the player is in the area that will get hit.

ok, thank you! But i have no idea how these functions work...
moveto: let the texttrigger move?
and distance: how do i let the script che if a player is in that area?

guess I have much to learn in scripting....

thank you!

You can move stuff around using the move functions. For example:

trigger = getent(".....

trigger moveTo((12,412,21),1);

This moves the trigger entity from its current position to the coordinates in the brackets. The 1 is the time this takes - in this instance 1 second.

As for the scripted solution (which I prefer due to it not requiring an entity in the map)

warnPlayers(position)   // Call this function with the coordinates of the point that will be targeted. 
{
   radius = 300; // danger area in inches around the position

   players = getentarray("player", "classname"); // get all players in the map

   for(i = 0; i < players.size; i++) // Loop (check) through all players
   {
      if(distance(position, players[i].origin) < radius) // Measure distance from player to target position. 
      {                                                  // if distance is less than radius they get warned
         players[i] iprintlnbold("Warning! You are in the danger zone!"); // send message
      }
   }
}

When you fire your mortar you should know the coordinates of where it will land (your danger zone). Simply call the above function with the coordinates.

eg.

warnPlayers( (12,412,21) );

that was great help, thank you!
seems like a trigger cant be moved by the moveTo function...

have just the problem that te text should fill a room and since this distance thing mesures the distance in a "ball-area"...

but this will let me get it work.

edited on Mar. 23, 2010 12:40 pm by FmF-Odin

You can't move triggers. BUUUUT!!! You can link them to an origin and then move them.

You have to spawn a script_origin or a script_brushmodel at the trigger's origin. Then using the linkto()


trigger enablelinkto();
wait(0.05);
trigger linkto(spawnedorigin);

like that?
thread movemytrigger();
}

movemytrigger()
{
trig = getent ("trigger1","targetname");
orig = getent ("origin1","targetname");

trig enablelinkto();
wait 0.05;
trig linkto(orig);

orig moveTo (x,y,z);
}


thanks for your help!

An easier method would be to simply re-define the origin of the trigger. I dont know if this works in vCOD/UO, but it works in all subsequent COD games:

movemytrigger()
{
	trig = getent( "trigger1", "targetname");

	new_origin = (X,Y,Z);
	new_angles = (X,Y,Z);
	
	trig.origin = new_origin;
	trig_angles = new_angles;
}

I don't think it does. I tried it that way once...



And yes that should be it.


if not switch teh linto aroudn so it's


org linkto(trig);


(IF it doesn't work the other way)