hi all

is it possible to have a 3 story building and have a lift that goes to each floor.

say ur at the bottom floor and want to go to floor 3, say ur at the middle floor and want to go to floor 1. is there away to make a trigger or more than one trigger do what i'm asking.

does this make sense?

Ghost

Yes it's possible to make a lift go to any number of floors, the more floors you have the more complicated the script of course. :)

As Grassy says easily possible.

The easiest way to do this is to have a button for each floor (with say a number on it). Instead of using trigger_use to control the lift, a trigger_damage may be better as the radii for the trigger_use's are likely to overlap. Then you can shoot the buttons to make the lift move :-)

Have a look at the elevator tutorial - it gives a simple example of how to tell where the elevator is (using a level variable).

Before you can move the lift you will need to know:

1. The current position of the lift.
2. The floor you want to go to.

Using this information, you can calculate the number of units to move the lift, so it arrives at the correct destination!

edited on Jul. 24, 2007 05:52 am by Pedro699

ok now i know it's possible, how would i go about doing it. i have some scripting knowledge but my brain has froze on this one.

would i need 6 triggers? 1-2 1-3 2-1 2-3 3-2 3-1

thanks

Ghost

i guess you can't help me then.

Yup, you will need six triggers in three pairs (as 2-1 and 1-2 can have the same targetnames, if you know where the lift is)

If you want the availability of calling the elevator to any floor and telling it to either go up or down you will need 6 triggers, 2 on each floor as Pedro said.

Grassy

*EDIT*

Doh! In fact you will only need 4 triggers.
On the ground floor you can only go up so you need just 1 trigger there. Same for the top floor, you can only go down, so 1 trigger is all thats needed up top.



edited on Aug. 3, 2007 08:01 am by WHC_Grassy

thanks for the replies....this scripting lark is hurting my head.

only 4 you say hmmm i'll see what i can come up with.

1 top 1 bottom 2 middle "i think" is what you mean, thats a laugh! me thinking.

Ghost

edited on Aug. 3, 2007 08:18 am by -Ghost-

Surely only having one at the top and bottom would mean you could only send the lift the whole way - how would it know to stop in the middle?

Yeah good point Pedro, but I was being lazy and assumed that you can only go to the middle floor by default from the top or ground floors. And then have to hit one of the triggers at the middle floor again to keep going down or up.

Grassy