in a few maps, you know how people have a mortar model and a trigger to use the mortar right? is it possible to make a button in a map and fire a mortar barrage that damages and kills people as you see in the Dawnville SP map?

if so, that would be cool... but is it possible?

Yes, very possible.. though not aimed, the location is preset, though you can "randomize" it.. It's all done through scripting

ok... now the problem is that i dont know the scripting but, i could do some research and stuff...

There are tutorials on this site and check out mods like AWE. They've done some great scripting in those mods.

Learn, as this is not an easy thing to make if you don't know anything about scripting.

edit: also check out the .gsc scripts from the maps in which you found those mortar barrages to get you started.

edited on Mar. 18, 2006 12:46 pm by The_Caretaker

thanks for the tips

ok, i looked in GSC files and stuff and it only gave me the scripting for a mortar model and how to use it in a game but, i was thinking along the lines of a DoD map, where if you press a button, a mortar barrage comes out of nowhere and lands on the enemy, not the player pressing the USE button on the mortar model

is there a way to do that?

like in DoD? o yea-

ok first put in a script_model. call it w/e u want, for this ill call it "mort". make another script_model, name it "mort2". and so on and so forth. place these where you want the mortar to come down. now: put in a misc_model of the mortar model. then- make a brush that fits around it. cover it in the trigger texture, then right click>trigger>use. call this w/e u want. for this ill call it "fire".


now for the script:

put the following script into the same folder as thmapwiththemortarthingy.bsp



i dunno if it would work, but iim 95% sure it would, so try it out and come back and tell me wat happened.




EDIT: i forgot to mention- the red text can be changed in the script to watever sounds u want. incomingsound is the incoming sound, and explosion sound is the explosion sound. theexplosion is the "boom" effect that plays, also theexplosion2...if u dot know how to add fx and sounds, you can find out how on this site!

edited on Mar. 18, 2006 10:19 pm by MasterChief6

edited on Mar. 18, 2006 10:20 pm by MasterChief6

hm... if i cover the model with a wood or concrete brush, i can cover it up and people wont see it.... also, i can probably put a no-usable button model just to make it look good...

thanks a lot guys... time to see what happens when i have the time

you don't need to put in the misc_models of the mortars, because the script will work just as well without it. A model doesn't do anything.. it's the trigger which does it.

well, i knew that because models are for show and the script is found in GSC files so im supposed to put the scripting of the trigger and mortar in there