im trying to make an elevator that has a keypad that selects the floor it goes and moves diagonally because my elevator goes up a diagonal building i think this is very advanced could i use trigger damages on the keypad that when shot move the lift to a level or could i have a trigger use or trigger use touch to open a menu???
anybody help?

edited on Feb. 24, 2011 05:34 pm by iCoDMapping360

i saw a video where they used this B-menue. but i dont know how they made the elevator moving.

thanks i have it working but the triggers dont move with the lift and i get getent used with more than one entity error???

try

getentarray

If you want to move the triggers, you will have to change their origins.

trigger1.origin += (0,0,1000); //this will move the trigger 1000 units on the Z axis (up); however, because the elevator moves diagonally, you would also have to move it on the X or Y axis (depending on rotation)

You would have to find the right values for each floor and move all of the triggers.

Another easier way to move an object based on another object is the linkTo() function. However, I can't remember if a trigger can be linked.
If it can, then use this

trigger1 enableLinkTo();
trigger1 LinkTo(elevator_name);

Do that for all of the button triggers.

this is my multiple level lift that takes you to the basement

main() { thread elev_button1 (); thread elevator_button2 (); } elev_button1() { elev = getent( "liftpad", "targetname" ); trig = getent( "lift_trigger", "targetname" ); while(true) { trig waittill ("trigger"); //wait 4; elev movez (275,5,0,0.6); elev waittill ("movedone"); } } elevator_button2() { elev = getent( "liftpad", "targetname" ); trig = getent( "lift_trigger1", "targetname" ); while(true) { trig waittill ("trigger"); //wait 4; elev movez (-275,5,0,0.6); elev waittill ("movedone"); } }

however it never got the getent error only now and getEntArray says my elevator isnt an array

ill try this

main() { level.elevDown=true; level.elevMove=false; switchTOP=getentarray("ups","targetname"); for(i=0; i<switchTOP.size; i++) switchTOP[i] thread elev_think(); } elev_think() { IdoorLEFT=getent("leftindoor", "targetname"); IdoorRIGHT=getent("rightindoor", "targetname"); OdoorTL=getent("topleftdoor", "targetname"); OdoorTR=getent("toprightdoor", "targetname"); OdoorBL=getent("bottomleftdoor", "targetname"); OdoorBR=getent("bottomrightdoor", "targetname"); thread door_open(IdoorLEFT, IdoorRIGHT, OdoorBL, OdoorBR); while(1) { self waittill ("trigger"); if(level.elevMove==false) { level.elevMove=true; thread elev_move(); } } } elev_move() { etime=5; zdirec="z"; zdist1=440; zdist2=-440; IdoorLEFT=getent("leftindoor", "targetname"); IdoorRIGHT=getent("rightindoor", "targetname"); OdoorTL=getent("topleftdoor", "targetname"); OdoorTR=getent("toprightdoor", "targetname"); OdoorBL=getent("bottomleftdoor", "targetname"); OdoorBR=getent("bottomrightdoor", "targetname"); Elevator=getent("elevator", "targetname"); if(level.elevDown==true) { door_close(IdoorLEFT, IdoorRIGHT, OdoorBL, OdoorBR); wait(.1); Elevator thread move_func(zdist1, etime, zdirec); IdoorLEFT thread move_func(zdist1, etime, zdirec); IdoorRIGHT thread move_func(zdist1, etime, zdirec); Elevator waittill ("movedone"); door_open(IdoorLEFT, IdoorRIGHT, OdoorTL, OdoorTR); level.elevDown=false; level.elevMove=false; } else { door_close(IdoorLEFT, IdoorRIGHT, OdoorTL, OdoorTR); wait(.1); Elevator thread move_func(zdist2, etime, zdirec); IdoorLEFT thread move_func(zdist2, etime, zdirec); IdoorRIGHT thread move_func(zdist2, etime, zdirec); Elevator waittill ("movedone"); door_open(IdoorLEFT, IdoorRIGHT, OdoorBL, OdoorBR); level.elevDown=true; level.elevMove=false; } wait(.1); } door_close(leftIN, rightIN, leftOUT, rightOUT) { LDclose=41; RDclose=-41; ydirec="x"; dtime=1.1; leftIN thread move_func(LDclose,dtime, ydirec); rightIN thread move_func(RDclose,dtime, ydirec); wait(1); leftOUT thread move_func(LDclose,dtime, ydirec); rightOUT thread move_func(RDclose,dtime, ydirec); wait(1); } door_open(leftyIN, rightyIN, leftyOUT, rightyOUT) { LDopen=-41; RDopen=41; ydirec="x"; dtime=1.1; leftyOUT thread move_func(LDopen,dtime, ydirec); rightyOUT thread move_func(RDopen,dtime, ydirec); wait(1); leftyIN thread move_func(LDopen,dtime, ydirec); rightyIN thread move_func(RDopen,dtime, ydirec); } move_func(dist,time,direc) { if(direc=="z") self movez (dist, time, (time/2), (time/2)); if(direc=="x") self movex (dist, time, (time/2), (time/2)); self waittill ("movedone"); }

do you think of something like this???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDEqHsvggkw

i coded this elevator, i can send you the code if you want

I would love to have it

@ kusi:
i guess u linked your elev doors to your elevator, right?
this causes this jiggle of your doors
instead of linkto() you should try tomove the doors in the same way and same time like your elevator, maybe looks cleaner

and how did you do this with the menu?