Hey guys.

Im currently working on a multiplayer map and i was thinking that it would mainly be a CTF Map, two seaparate islands with one team on each and a headquarter with the flag and some trenches and stuff to defend it. Anyway, to get between those islands i i want there to be a small dock or something on each island, containing a boat to load an small "invasion force" on and sail to the opponents island.

Anyway, thats a hard thing to do for me as a beginner. Ive made one boat to start with and made it a script_brushmodel. Ive created one origin where the boat is supposed to land and the soldiers should be jumping out and a trigger_use on the boat to start moving the boat.

Now the problems is how to make it work, and thats what i would like help with.

Boat targername is simply boat, origins targetname is Origin and the trigger is boattrigger. Could you help me with a script?

Your script_brushmodel and origin brush needs the same targetname. Then you need to get your entity so you can use it in the script with:

invasion = getentarray ( "boat ", "targetname”);

You also need to get your trigger:

trig = getent ("boat_trigger ", "targetname”);

Now you want to tell the script to wait untill the trigger is hit and do a selected movement, you could use movez, movey or movex to move along what ever axis you want, so movez would move along the Z axis.

All of those commands use the following args: (< units >, < time >, < accel >, < decel >)

So your script would looks something like:

invasion_force()  // name of function
{
invasion = getent (" boat ", "targetname”);  // targetname of boat
trig = getent ("boat_trigger ", "targetname”);  // trigger
while (1)
{
trig waittill ("trigger");  // wait for trigger
invasion movex (80, 2, 0, 0.5);  // move on x axis 80 units
invasion waittill ("movedone”);  // wait till move has finished
wait (4);  // wait 4 seconds
invasion movex (-80, 2, 0, 0.5);  // move back 80 units
invasion waittill ("movedone”);  // wait till move has finished
}

}

That would move your boat 80 units on the x axis, wait 4 second then move it back to where it started.

Forgot you can also use movetoif you want to specify an exact location rather than x amount of units.

moveto (< vector >, < time >, < accel >, < decel >)

boat moveto (( X, Y, Z ), < TIME>); 

All you need to do is specify the coordinates and the time to complete the move.

Should i have 2 script_origins, one with the same name as the boat and one at the destination where i want it to arrive?

This is how my script looks like now.

main()
{
maps\mp\_load::main();

setExpFog(0.0001, 0.55, 0.6, 0.55, 0);
// setCullFog(0, 16500, 0.55, 0.6, 0.55, 0);
ambientPlay("ambient_france");

game["allies"] = "american";
game["axis"] = "german";
game["attackers"] = "allies";
game["defenders"] = "axis";
game["american_soldiertype"] = "normandy";
game["german_soldiertype"] = "normandy";

setCvar("r_glowbloomintensity0", ".25");
setCvar("r_glowbloomintensity1", ".25");
setcvar("r_glowskybleedintensity0",".3");

}

invasion_force()
{
invasion = getent (" boat ", "targetname”);
trig = getent ("boat_trigger ", "targetname”);
while (1)
{
trig waittill ("trigger");
invasion movex (80, 2, 0, 0.5);
invasion waittill ("movedone”);
wait (20);
invasion movex (-80, 2, 0, 0.5);
invasion waittill ("movedone”);
}

Im sure ive done something wrong here, and i get a error message about line 24 (invasion = getent (" boat ", "targetname”);) what's wrong?

"an error message" is not very precise... what is the exact error message you're getting?

My guess would be a syntax error, as the last " after targetname is a different ". (The same goes for the next line with the trigger.

invasion = getent (" boat ", "targetname”);
trig = getent ("boat_trigger ", "targetname”);

See?


A few other things about your script:

you don't call the invasion_force() function in your main script. so the boat will never move.
You're missing a } at the end of your invasion_force() function.