move_gate() {
level.gatemoving = true;
level.gate1 rotateto ((0,-90,0),2); //the bottom left door opens
level.gate2 rotateto ((0,90,0),2); //the bottom right door opens
wait (10); //this is the time to get in lift at top
level.gate1 rotateto ((0,0,0),2); //the bottom left door closes
level.gate1 rotateto ((0,0,0),2); //the bottom right door closes
wait (4);
level.gate5 movez (608,8,0,0,6); //the lift moves up

//this dosnt make sense, you are telling the gates to rotate
//but then waiting on movedone?? the other gates below
//move rather than rotate, so which is it? rotate or move?
//I have remmed out the wait lines as you already have a
//wait 4 line above
//level.gate1 waittill ("movedone");
//level.gate2 waittill ("movedone");

//now you need a wait on the gate5 move
level.gate5 waittill ("movedone");

//ok gate5 has stopped, now open upper doors
level.gate3 movez (-59,2,0.5,0.5); //top door lower opens
level.gate4 movez (83,2,0.5,0.5); //top door upper opens
wait (10);
level.gate3 movez (59,2,0.5,0.5); //top door lower closes
level.gate3 movez (-83,2,0.5,0.5); //top door upper closes
wait (4);
level.gate5 movez (-608,8,0,0,6); //the lift goes back down

//now you need to wait on the gate5 move again
level.gate5 waittill ("movedone");

//not sure why you have these wait commands here again
//so I remmed them out
//level.gate1 waittill ("movedone");
//level.gate2 waittill ("movedone");

level.gate1 rotateto ((0,-90,0),2); //the bottom left door opens
level.gate2 rotateto ((0,90,0),2); //the bottom right door opens
wait (10);
level.gate1 rotateto ((0,0,0),2); //the bottom left door closes
level.gate1 rotateto ((0,0,0),2); //the bottom right door closes
//wait (3);

level.gatemoving=false;
}

Does that make sense? Double check your move - rotate commands as well.
Grassy

someone let me look at their example script from heavy water plant and ive been editing it.

That seem to work now thanks....ive just got to fix the doors

ok ive had to have two scripts for each lift but they work fine heres theye are for anyone else whos stuck...

main()
{
thread gate_init();

}
gate_init(){
level.gatemoving=false;
level.gate1 = getent("lift1DL","targetname");
level.gate2 = getent("lift1DR","targetname");
level.gate3 = getent("lift2bottom","targetname");
level.gate4 = getent("lift2top","targetname");
level.gate5 = getent("elevatormodel_2","targetname");
level.trig = getentarray ("elevatorswitchleft_2","targetname");

if (isdefined(level.trig))
for (i=0;i level.trigthread gate_handler();
}

gate_handler() {
while (1) {
self waittill ("trigger");
if (!level.gatemoving)
thread move_gate();
wait(1);
}
}
move_gate() {
level.gatemoving = true;
level.gate5 movez (608,8,0,0,6); //the lift moves up
//now you need a wait on the gate5 move
level.gate5 waittill ("movedone");
level.gate3 movez (-59,2,0.5,0.5); //the top lower door opens
level.gate4 movez (83,2,0.5,0.5); //the top upper door opens
wait (6); //this is the time to get in lift at top
level.gate3 movez (59,2,0.5,0.5); //the door closes
level.gate4 movez (-83,2,0.5,0.5); //the door closes
wait (3);
level.gate5 movez (-608,8,0,0,6); //the lift moves down
//now you need a wait on the gate5 move
level.gate5 waittill ("movedone");

level.gate1 rotateto ((0,-90,0),2); //the bottom left door opens
level.gate2 rotateto ((0,90,0),2); //the bottom right door opens
wait (6);
level.gate1 rotateto ((0,00,0),2); //the bottom left door closes
level.gate2 rotateto ((0,00,0),2); //the bottom right door closes
//wait (3);

level.gatemoving=false;
}


Script 2:



main()
{
thread gate_init();

}
gate_init(){
level.gatemoving=false;
level.gate1 = getent("lift2DL","targetname");
level.gate2 = getent("lift2DR","targetname");
level.gate3 = getent("lift1bottom","targetname");
level.gate4 = getent("lift1top","targetname");
level.gate5 = getent("elevatormodel_2","targetname");
level.trig = getentarray ("elevatorswitchleft_1","targetname");

if (isdefined(level.trig))
for (i=0;i level.trigthread gate_handler();
}

gate_handler() {
while (1) {
self waittill ("trigger");
if (!level.gatemoving)
thread move_gate();
wait(1);
}
}
move_gate() {
level.gatemoving = true;
level.gate1 rotateto ((0,-90,0),2); //the bottom left door opens
level.gate2 rotateto ((0,90,0),2); //the bottom right door opens
wait (6); //this is the time to get in lift at top
level.gate1 rotateto ((0,0,0),2); //the bottom left door closes
level.gate2 rotateto ((0,0,0),2); //the bottom right door closes
wait (3);
level.gate5 movez (608,8,0,0,6); //the lift moves up


//now you need a wait on the gate5 move
level.gate5 waittill ("movedone");

//ok gate5 has stopped, now open upper doors
level.gate3 movez (-59,2,0.5,0.5); //top door lower opens
level.gate4 movez (83,2,0.5,0.5); //top door upper opens
wait (6);
level.gate3 movez (59,2,0.5,0.5); //top door lower closes
level.gate4 movez (-83,2,0.5,0.5); //top door upper closes
wait (4);
level.gate5 movez (-608,8,0,0,6); //the lift goes back down

//now you need to wait on the gate5 move again
level.gate5 waittill ("movedone");




level.gate1 rotateto ((0,-90,0),2); //the bottom left door opens
level.gate2 rotateto ((0,90,0),2); //the bottom right door opens
wait (6);
level.gate1 rotateto ((0,0,0),2); //the bottom left door closes
level.gate2 rotateto ((0,0,0),2); //the bottom right door closes
//wait (3);

level.gatemoving=false;
}