Hi there,

Not been on these formus for a while, but they are stil lthe best place for good advice as far as I am concerned.

I have a problem with a damage trigger. It's a question that HAS been asked before, but I can't find an answer to it.

When I set up a damage trigger with a threshold OR and accumulate key, nothing seems to trigger it except grenades. ALL the damage types are enabled, and the threshold is set quite low. So why doesn't the trigger work? Values as below:

classname: trigger_damage
accumulate: 100
threshold: 30
spawnflags: 0
script_exploder: 20
targetname: trig_20

The target name is only really there for debugging purposes - I monitor the damage by using trig_entity waittill("damage") and then get the damage from the entity to see what is going on. As far as I can see, it should trigger the appropriate exploder, but it only works when a grenade goes off next to it.

Any ideas? All help greatly appreciated.

A.

Try using

trig_entity waittill("trigger");

instead of the trig_entity waittill("damage");

Sorry, should have explained better - i am using the waittill construct as follows:

trigwatch()
{
wait(30);
iprintln("Getting trigger ...");
a=getent("wintrig","targetname");
if (isdefined(a))
{
iprintln("Found trigger");
iprintln("Starting tigger loop ...");
totaldamage = 0;
while(1)
{
a waittill ("damage",amount);
totaldamage += amount;
iprintln(amount);
iprintln(totaldamage);
}
}
iprintln("Trigger not found");
}

This is ONLY for debugging as the exploder works fine, but ONLY when a grenade goes off.

I have just tried switching OFF splash damage, and now even a grenade doesn't work. So I set the accumulate key down to a value of 2 just to see what happens, and it now needs over 900 damage to trigger the exploder. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? ARRRRRHHHGGGHHGHGHGHHGG!

A.

Oh, also, some figures from the damage debug loop:

Damage / Weapon / Total accumulated damage



113 / Grenade / 2687
113 / Grenade / 2800
113 / Grenade / 2913
70 / BAR / 2983 BOOOOOOM - trigger activated

This was with the accumulate key set to 0.5 (trying everything now).

A.

Hello? Anyone out there? (LOL)

Still experimenting with the above. I can't seem to get the different damage levels to work at all. Is this a known problem, as I haven't found it anywhere else in the forums? (Yes, I have searched. Thoroughly).

A.

hi mental,

i experienced the same here. it seems, the trigger_damage features in entity editor doesn't work correctly. i noticed more probs with multiplayer than with singleplayer. i help myself by setting threshholds completely scripted:

main()
{
	//"Basics"
	maps\mp\_load::main();
	game["allies"] = "american";
	game["axis"] = "german";

	trig01 = getent ("trigger01", "targetname");
	trig01 thread trigger_dmg();
}

trigger_dmg()
{
	dmg = 0; //reset my values
	hitpoints = 150; //define your desired threshhold here
	wait 30;
	while (dmg < hitpoints)
	{
		self waittill ("damage", amount);
		dmg += amount; // add my damage to VAR dmg
		if (dmg >= hitpoints)
		{
			iprintln("Gotcha!");
			self thread trigger_dmg();
			return;
		}
	}
}

hope this helps you a bit further.
cheers

Ah Ha!

Thank you very much for that. It looks just like the monitoring loop I've been using for debugging. Thought there was something fishy about the way that was working.

I'll have to write a couple of functions to handle all the damage triggers I am using so that I can make them work correctly (ouch!).

Incidentally, does anyone know how to extract entity keys from an entity? In other words, get a list of the keys defined in an entity and the values associated with them?

Thanks again.

A.

if you've added them yourself in your .map file.. you know them already, don't you?

If not... you can open your .bsp file in notepad and chekc out the entities. It's a bit of digging around but they're in there..