Hi, I've got a normal mortar to explode and create a crater in the ground, but how to i make it so a player hits F, than it explodes. And how can i make it so the player can hit F again, and it will explode again and so on, but the crater will stay after the first boom?

And also, what line do I put in my script to stop and effect, because i want a mortar to explode, than the crater is on fire for a minute, than the fire goes out.

nullEdit: I mean "to stop an effect" in my first sentance.

edited on Jun. 19, 2008 11:03 pm by Blimp01

Have you read the "Moving things" tutorial in the CoD section? A great getting started with scripting tutorial

It deals with triggers and stuff like that. Read it carefully and the, step by step, try to make a script which does what you want.

First make it so when you press "F" the mortar explodes.. then make it so it makes the crater, then make it so the fire starts.. then so the fire stops after a minute.. etc etc..

edit: The key to scripting is taking small steps. Make one thing work, then go on to the next. Do NOT try and make the whole script work at the first time, because you'll only be chasing bugs you can't find because you lost what happens.

edited on Jun. 20, 2008 03:49 pm by The_Caretaker

Oh ok thanks now it explodes and leaves fire, and the fire goes away after a few seconds

Good..

now, if you add a while loop around it all, it will go on every time you press the trigger

It should look something like this:

function()
{
trigger =getent...
while(1)
{
trigger waittill("trigger");
explode
fire
etc
}
}


Everything

I need some more help with making a looping mortar that a player hits a trigger for, and it will explode everytime the palayer hits F. I use this script, but I don't know what to add and where to add it to make it a loop.

main()
{
level._effect["mortexplosion01"] = loadfx("fx/explosions/artilleryExp_dirt_brown.efx");
thread mortar1();
}
mortar1()
{
action = getent ("action","targetname");
botground = getent ("botlayer","targetname");
topground = getent ("toplayer","targetname");
trigger = getent ("morttrig","targetname");

botground hide();
trigger waittill ("trigger");
origin = action getorigin();
action playsound("incoming_mortar");
wait (1);
action playsound("explosion_ground");
playfx(level._effect["mortexplosion01"], origin);
botground show();
topground delete();
}

I think you need to place the function line in the message above around your script. In this way you will assign the script to the action.
In Radiant you need to make a trigger_use around where you want it to appear in your map. Lets give it a targetname: mortar
You need to define this trigger in the getent.... Now when you press the trigger it allows your script to be executed. So it would look something like this if we combine the 2.

main()
{
level._effect["mortexplosion01"] = loadfx("fx/explosions/artilleryExp_dirt_brown.efx");
}

function()
{
trigger =getent("mortar","targetname");
while(1)
{
trigger waittill("trigger");
thread mortar1();
}
mortar1()
{
action = getent ("action","targetname");
botground = getent ("botlayer","targetname");
topground = getent ("toplayer","targetname");
trigger = getent ("morttrig","targetname");

botground hide();
trigger waittill ("trigger");
origin = action getorigin();
action playsound("incoming_mortar");
wait (1);
action playsound("explosion_ground");
playfx(level._effect["mortexplosion01"], origin);
botground show();
topground delete();
}
}

I am not 100% sure if it will work like this but its a start.
Good luck

No need to do it like that, if fact.. it's very bad to do it like that, because the function mortar1() will be called over and over and over again like that, most likely causing memory errors.

Read my post above.. everything you post between a while(1) loop ill keep on repeating.

Now, because you have your ground disappearing, you don't want that to happen every time.. So after it disappears., add a while loop with the trigger, explosion and everything in it... like so


main()
{
level._effect["mortexplosion01"] = loadfx("fx/explosions/artilleryExp_dirt_brown.efx");
thread mortar1();
}

mortar1()
{
action = getent ("action","targetname");
botground = getent ("botlayer","targetname");
topground = getent ("toplayer","targetname");
trigger = getent ("morttrig","targetname");

botground hide();
trigger waittill ("trigger");
origin = action getorigin();
action playsound("incoming_mortar");
wait (1);
action playsound("explosion_ground");
playfx(level._effect["mortexplosion01"], origin);
botground show();
topground delete();

while(1)
{
trigger waittill ("trigger");
origin = action getorigin();
action playsound("incoming_mortar");
wait (1);
action playsound("explosion_ground");
playfx(level._effect["mortexplosion01"], origin)
}

}

This way, the first time you press the trigger, the mortar blasts the hole in the ground, then the script enters the while loop, and keeps on firing the mortar every time the trigger is pressed.

Just an idea but you could just make a trigger_damage over the mortar hole, make the ground as a script exploder, tie it to the trigger and then just worry about the mortar explosion in the .gsc.

Thanks, The_Caretaker that script worked perfect