multiple start positions

[stumpy]

is it possible to detect in the script what difficulty the player has picked at the start of the map, I was thinking I could use my hub script to make the player start in a different location on the map depending on what difficulty they've choosen.

[Fidcal]

Don't know. Probably. But you might be able to spawn the player separately. Try making three info player starts and give them the appropriate difficulty.

 

http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Difficulty_Levels

[STiFU]

If that doesn't work, maybe a teleporter could be used right in the playerstart. Maybe the target location or different teleporters could be toggled depending on the difficulty.

[etdarkb]

Yep, put the player starting point in a blue room with a teleporter under his feet.

[stumpy]

cant have more than one info_playerstart per map, the editor wont let you add more even if you add the difficulty option to the entity, its not like hammer where you can add loads of player starts, can't place the teleport entity beneath the player as the player goes to the teleport entity when the teleport entity is triggered, this is the same as hammer.

 

Although it doesn't really answer the question of can the difficulty settings be detected in script for the <nameofmap>.script file.

 

psuedo script

void Main()

{

call things you want to happen right at the start of the map, go here.

check difficulty

player starts at info_playerstart if difficulty is 0

send player to start2 if difficulty is 1

send player to start3 if difficulty is 2

}

[Crispy]

Wouldn't this work?

 

* Place info_playerstart in blue room

* Place three trigger_multiple entities underneath the info_playerstart; each trigger_multiple is only present on one specified difficulty level (using the diff_X_nospawn spawnargs).

* Place three info_player_teleport entities; one at each desired starting location

* Each trigger_multiple targets the appropriate teleport entity

[greebo]

In TDM 1.00 there is no script interface for the difficulty settings yet. The difficulty is selected in the menu GUIs and then stored internally in the DifficultyManager (in the C++ code).

 

I can see the need for such a script function, so feel free to file this request on our bugtracker, it might get looked into.

 

For now, you'll need to settle on the method using difficulty-specific origins:

 

"diff_0_change0" "origin"

"diff_0_arg0" "20 30 0"

etc.

[stumpy]

I'll have to go with Crispy's solution. thx.

 

I looked through all the doom3 and tdm script definitions and nothing references the difficulty settings although you can trigger objectives via scripts.

[Crispy]

Really? I thought greebo's solution was cleaner. I guess the disadvantage is that you can't directly visualise and modify the locations of the player starts.

[Fidcal]

Definitely use greebo's fix. But it's not so self-evident to the novice:

 

Move the player start to position Easy.

Property: diff_0_change0

Value: origin

Property: diff_0_arg0

Value: <copy and paste the values from the origin property>

 

Move the player start to position Hard.

Property: diff_1_change0

Value: origin

Property: diff_1_arg0

Value: <copy and paste the values from the origin property>

 

Move the player start to position Expert.

Property: diff_2_change0

Value: origin

Property: diff_2_arg0

Value: <copy and paste the values from the origin property>

 

It is likely you will want to rotate the player differently at each location. I'm not at my main PC at the moment so have to guess but I think you need to repeat the above with the angle property. If angle doesn't show then use rotation. So at each of the above steps you would also turn the player start and add (this example is for Easy. Substitute diff_1 for diff_0 for Hard and diff_2 for Expert.)

 

Property: diff_0_change1

Value: angle

Property: diff_0_arg1

Value: <copy and paste the value from the angle property>

 

There is a console command to change the difficulty level but I haven't got it at hand on this PC.

[stumpy]

I'll give both ways a try to see which is easy to understand.