HI guys,
first piccy of my "LOLinating" working train map set in the weardale valley.



BTW, thats my stupid dad at the front of the train!

L0L looking good Azz looks cartoony...well the train
and as my mate Tom would say
'Its Fandabbydoesy'
pronoseation is FAN-DAB-BEE-DOE-ZEE
lol

Hi, guess what guys, ive got a railway crossing with working barriers! It took alot of doing (getting the barriers syncronized with the train) but it finally paid off.

Here's the barriers down with the train going past...



and heres the barriers up when the train is far away.



Hope ya's like the map when its finnished!

Azz

lol nice work man

Can the train drive into curves?
This would be amazing maybe you can make a tutorial for it (If it is for mp)

Cya

No, unfotunatley, with this type of scripting you are unable to make things turn corners.
the tutorials have already been done m8, its called Scripting:moving thingfs or sumet.


Azz

Damn it I think so :D

You was my last hope *g*

Cause in a old map I never finished I had a train as Spawn Point (The Allied has to Press F so the train drive forward)

I never understand why the Radiant don't have the genius functions of the RTCW / ET Radiant but in Worldspawn you can allready check Wolf SW :D

Cya

I have been working on a way to make things go around curves and came up with something that works pretty well. I'm working on some instructions for it. How do you take a screenshot of windows? I need to take some pics of radiant.

thx

press the print scrn button on thr right of the f12 key, then go into a photo editing program such as paint shop pro and go to edit then press paste (ctrl+v).
Adjust the brightness and contrast till u get it right. then it needs to be hosted (we use www.imageshack.us)

Thts it!

Azz

Cool! thanks

Here's what I came up with.

First, make whatever you want your thing to be that will move. Put an origin brush that is 16 by 16 by 16 units in the center and make the whole thing a script_brushmodel. Give it a targetname of train.
Also key in: "angles" "0 270 0" (for this one thats what the starting angle is, it will probably be different for yours. To find it put a script_origin right on the origin brush of your brushmodel and rotate it until the arrow is facing the direction you want the train to move first. While it is still selected, bring up the entity window. Find the key "angles" (it will automatically be there when you rotate it) and remember the numbers. Delete the script_origin and key in the angle values for your brushmodel)

Make a trigger_use with a targetname of "traintrigger". This will be used to start the train for testing purposes.



Next, create a patch mesh and bend it. This will be a guide for placing the script_origins. Place a script_origin at the start of the patch. Make sure it has the same z axis position as the brushmodel's origin brush. Rotate it around until the arrow faces the direction of the way you want the train to move. Give this one only the targetname of "path".



Continue placing script_origins around the patch and rotate each one so that it points to the next one. The more origins you have along the curve and the closer they are together will make the curve smoother.



Now for the important part.
Do this for each origin: select it, bring up the entity window, and find the key "angles". Make a new key: "script_noteworthy" and make the value the same as they value you saw for "angles". Then select that origin and the next one and press ctrl + k. (connect them).



When you're finished delete the patch. It should look like this.



Now for the script.

Open up a new text file and put this in:

main()

{

level thread train();

}


train()

{

trigger = getent("traintrigger", "targetname");

train = getent("train", "targetname");

path = getent("path", "targetname");

trigger waittill ("trigger", other);

train moveto (path.origin, 1);
wait 1;

while (isdefined(path.target))

{

path = getent(path.target, "targetname");
train moveto (path.origin, .2);
wait .2;
angle = path.script_noteworthy;
train rotateto((0, angle, 0), .1);
wait .1;

}

}

Hope that was clear enough!

Cheers