okay here's my dilema...i got this bridge that is over a canal (moat) around a castle, and i want to be able to hit a switch and make it retract so the bridge don't cross the canal anymore. I've tried everything and can't get it to work. In the map "amusement park" you can hit a switch and a train moves to the end of the tracks and then moves back...looked at the .gsc file for the scripts, found em, modified em, but to no luck...won't move an inch. Could someone with more knowledge on scripting help me out!!! This is one of the main focal points to my map, and it's killing it! HELP!!!!

Hi GMF,, Amuzement Park is my Sons map,, he only 13 but a devil at this scripting lark.
Will your bridge lift like a drawbridge or do you want it to slide back from the moat?

Take a look at the "getting started in scripting(movingthings) tutorial. This tells you hove to rotate and move on the x y and z axis

Yes as Adwam says thats the tut.. i was trying to remember what it was called and have just found my printout of it.
That should do the trick.
Good luck A

azz it will move along the y axis...i've read the tut and still no go...wondering if I got something mixed up...

here's a screeny of the bridge and the dir. of movement and what i have the targetnames and target of...





here's the .gsc file of the bridge script anyone see a problem? I don't but it wont work!

Code:

main() { level.elevatorDown = true; // elevator starts at bottom: true/false level.elevatorMoving = false; // elevator is not currently moving thread elevator_start(); } elevator_start() { elevator = getentarray ("bridgemove","targetname"); if ( isdefined(elevator) ) for (i = 0; i < elevator.size; i++) elevator thread elevator_think(); } elevator_think() { while (1) { self waittill ("bridgemove"); if (!level.elevatorMoving) thread elevator_move(); } } elevator_move() { elevatormodel = getent ("bridge", "targetname"); level.elevatorMoving = true; speed = 5; height = 400; wait (1); if (level.elevatorDown) { // moves to top elevatormodel movey (height, speed); elevatormodel waittill ("movedone"); level.elevatorDown = false; } else { // moves to bottom elevatormodel movey (height - (height * 2), speed); elevatormodel waittill ("movedone"); level.elevatorDown = true; } level.elevatorMoving = false; }

Please help!!!!

Arrrr.. I see your using elevator script.
I would have to wait till Son gets here to check that out and that wont be till Fri. m8

Sorry to be a pain but is that last pic looking from above does the player get on then trigger it to move?

If so all you need is the "moveto" script
You say you have looked at the script my Son used to move the little train in Amuzement park, can you not copy that and just change the trigger and brushmodel names to match yours? You have included the origin in the script_model havnt you?
Would you like me to mail you another .gsc with a moveto script?

the object of this bridge is this...allies start out in a town..and move forward through a town to reach a castle...where the main objectives are. There will be like 4 ways in...1 will include this bridge that the you can "pull back" across the pond by push a switch in the guard house next to the bridge.

I am using the elevator script seeing how is was the only one that i could find...i'm gonna try to use the train script from the amusementpark pk3. Hopefully this can get working.

ps. Those pics are from above

i have a couple of questions...then ill start with the suggestions

why are you targeting your brushmodels with your trigger (you dont need to...but it can be done either way)?

why do i see script_brushmodel represented twice on your map...the entity you move must be 1 script_brushmodel, therefore it would only show once?

why are you using an origin if you are scripting a sliding movement? (your bridge will retract on the y axis, as the origin of your bridge itself will be 0,0,0)...ummm.....this goes back to the entity "self" and self.origin is relevent to self...not the map....so an entities self.origin is going to be 0,0,0 where on the map it could be completely different....i hope i explained that so you could understand it

suggestions:

remake your script_brushmodel....simply select all then ungroup...then select them all again and make into a script_brushmodel

in your gsc....an array calls on MULTIPLE objects with the same targetname
from the look of your pic there is only one trigger....so use getent instead of getentarray...(you dont have to build the table then either

in your gsc you call on your trigger like this

Code:

self waittill ("bridgemove");

a trigger has to wait for "triggered" it is the only thing it will respond to

it looks like the map i was going to do for the suppliments will HAVE to get done now lol

to styder...thanks for the suggestions. I have three "script_brushmodels" these are: 1) the bridge floor 2) the left railing, and 3) the right railing. So what i'm getting is to make em so they are 1 "script_brushmodel". I didn't know that! Also about putting an origin, thought you needed one by the tut. but it didn't mention about slidding something like this so i thought i was right, guess not. I had no idea about triggering, this is first time doing anything like this, so I'll take your suggestion and try it. I'll go and make these implements and get back to ya! But yup...i think i'll need a good working .gsc file to find out my mistakes. Thanks for the help!

you are trying and that is great!

your basic idea was right...only needs a little tweaking

let me know what happens