Following the cod1 scripting tutorial (moving things) I've managed to
make airplanes fly, land, stop, rotate, jump, whatever (In cod1).

But that's more then a year ago now, and I simply forgot everything.

My goal is to make rotating doors, so I started with the tutorial, following its every way. However, when I put it to the test, the door
simply stays closed. I don't think the problem is in my gsc file:

main()
{
maps\mp\_load::main();

game["allies"] = "american";
game["axis"] = "german";
game["attackers"] = "allies";
game["defenders"] = "axis";
game["american_soldiertype"] = "normandy";
game["german_soldiertype"] = "normandy";

thread controlroom_main();
}

controlroom_main()
{
controlroom_main = getent ("controlroom_main", "targetname");
controlroom_main rotateto ( (0, 0, 90), 1); 
}

I haven't equipped it with a trigger and all that, simply because I
want to have a simple version working first.

As this code is pretty straight forward, I think it's the mapping where it went wrong.

I've made 1 brush for a door,
inside an origin brush (dead center, and completely inside of the doorbrush)
Selected both, and made the classname script_brushmodel, and the targetname controlroom_main.

Am I doing something wrong?

edited on Apr. 26, 2006 09:55 am by notelvis

Most like the the "0,0,90" is closed... try making it 0,0,180 or something.

Nope, I've even tried simple moving instead of rotating, and it still didnt work.

(just to be clear, I also tried a non-normal angle like 139 degrees, just to be sure it wasnt turning so fast i couldnt see it.)

In the moving tutorial, it says that every brushmodel needs to have an origin, do I need to specify this origin, or is it enough to let it simply sit inside of the door with the same targetname?

Could a moderator perhaps move this post to "CoD 2 Level Design" ?
I think it has more potential there :)

eeuhh.. no.. it's a scripting problem.. it's right in it's place here.


Go over the CoD1 tutorial again and use a trigger this time.

you'll have to make an origin and a bruish, select BOTH and make them a script_brushmodel together.

I did every step exactly like it was written, at least I think so.
Does cod1 scripting even work in cod2? Could you, or someone else
that has been able to make a rotating door send me the .map file?

Would be greatly appreciated!

ps: I wouldn't ask this if I didn't think i'd tried everything, I spend about 5 hours on this pisshole now :)

Just saw your thread after posting a simmilar thread in the level design department.
However, my brush does rotate when hard-coded.
I included an iwd and a map file so you can check those out.

The triggering however does not work in my file, that's what I'm having trouble with...

Already answered in your other thread, Hightree.

As for notelvis:

rotatedoor = getent ("door", "targetname");
rotatedoor rotateto ((0,-90,0), 3, 1, 1);

This works. I just checked it.

I finally got it to work in a seperate map, as for the mistake, somehow another entity named the same as my door was in the map. (Dont ask me how it got there).

anyway, I thought the cleanest way of getting the doors in my map (mp_pipeline, rebuilding it from the most popular americas army map) was by making a little operating panel for the player to touch, and make the door go open with a heavy mechanical sound ;)

For the people that look for a door with a button:

thread controlroom_down();

controlroom_down()
{
	controlroom_down = getent ("controlroom_down", "targetname");
	controlroom_down_trigger = getent ("controlroom_down_trigger", "targetname");
		while(1)
		{
			controlroom_down_trigger waittill ("trigger");
			controlroom_down rotateto ((0,90,0), 2, 0, 0.5);
			controlroom_down playsound("mp_pipeline_door");
			controlroom_down_trigger waittill ("trigger");
			controlroom_down rotateto ((0,0,0), 2, 0, 0.5);
			controlroom_down playsound("mp_pipeline_door");
		}
}

Anyway, thanks for your help dudes.