Well im trying to make an elevator that moves up to the 648 units automatically when someone steps in it

To do this i have made the elevator out of brushes, then on the elevator floor put a trigger/multiple

Then i have used (and slightly modified) the script off the eleavator tutorail.

main() 
{ 
level.elevatorDown = true; // elevator starts at bottom: true/false 
level.elevatorMoving = true; // elevator is not currently moving 
thread elevator_start(); 
} 

elevator_start() { 
elevator = getentarray ("elevator_trigger","targetname"); 
if ( isdefined(elevator) ) 
for (i = 0; i < elevator.size; i++) 
elevator[i] thread elevator_think(); 
} 

elevator_think() { 
while (1) { 
self waittill ("trigger"); 
if (!level.elevatorMoving) 
thread elevator_move(); 
} 
} 

elevator_move() { 
elevatormodel = getent ("elevator", "targetname"); 
level.elevatorMoving = true; 
speed = 2; 
height = 648; 
wait (1); 
if (level.elevatorDown) { // moves to top 
elevatormodel playsound (""); // sound definition for soundaliases.csv
wait (1); // wait a second to hear the motor start and then start the movement of the lift - feels more realistic
elevatormodel moveZ (height, speed); 
elevatormodel waittill ("movedone"); 
level.elevatorDown = false; 
} 
else { // moves to bottom 
elevatormodel playsound (""); // sound definition for soundaliases.csv
wait (1);  // wait a second to hear the motor start and then start the movement of the lift - feels more realistic
elevatormodel moveZ (height - (height * 2), speed); 
elevatormodel waittill ("movedone"); 
level.elevatorDown = true; 
} 
level.elevatorMoving = false; 
} 

Please can some tell me whats wrong with this?? as i always get a bad syntax eror, but i remove this script it works fine

Please help

Thanks

SpuD

main() 
{ 
level.elevatorDown = true;
level.elevatorMoving = true;
thread elevator_start(); 
} 

elevator_start() 
{ 
elevators = getentarray ("elevator_trigger","targetname"); 
if(isdefined(elevators)) 
for (i = 0; i < elevators.size; i++) elevators[i] thread elevator_think(); 
} 

elevator_think() 
{ 
while (1) 
{ 
self waittill ("trigger");
if (!level.elevatorMoving) thread elevator_move(); 
} 
} 

elevator_move() 
{ 
elevatormodel = getent ("elevator", "targetname"); 
level.elevatorMoving = true; 
speed = 2; 
height = 648; 
wait 1; 

if (level.elevatorDown)
{
//elevatormodel playsound ("");
wait 1;
elevatormodel moveZ (height, speed); 
elevatormodel waittill ("movedone"); 
level.elevatorDown = false; 
} 
else 
{ 
//elevatormodel playsound (""); 
wait 1;
elevatormodel moveZ (height - (height * 2), speed); 
elevatormodel waittill ("movedone"); 
level.elevatorDown = true; 
}
level.elevatorMoving = false; 
}

try

edited on Dec. 15, 2007 07:11 am by NovemberDobby

Well its fixed the bad syntax!

But now in the map if i stand on the elevtor nothing happens??

why is this??
is it somethig to do with the trigget??

i set mine to mulitple is tht correct??

SpuD

Edit: i think i might know what the problem what the problem is,
i have set the elevator as a script brush model and reading the Getting Started in Scripting (Moving Things) tutorial it says


so if i set it to script model would it work or do i need to draw it an orgin with the orgin texture??

if i have to draw it an origin , where would i draw it??
would it be where it starts on the ground floor??

thanks

SpuD

edited on Dec. 15, 2007 07:27 am by _SpuD_

a script_brushmodel doesn't need an origin for just movex/z/y, it does for rotation and stuff.

has the trigger got the right targetname? re-make it