Blocking frobs

[Springheel]

I want to make sure a player can't frob something through jail bars. Is there a particular texture that blocks frobs but is otherwise invisible?

[grayman]

Not that I know of.

 

If this item is something he can frob from the other side of the bars, then you could wrap it in an atdm:target_set_frobable brush, initialize the brush to "start_frobable" "0", then trigger the brush at the point where the player is on the other side of the bars.

 

Or you could set the frobbox_size on the item small enough that he can't frob it through the bars.

[ungoliant]

small frobbox sizes tend to incite player aggravation, however. I've swung swords at things i couldn't frob easily before . even increasing frob distance won't help if you're aiming at a pinhead size frobbox without a crosshair.

[Springheel]

If this item is something he can frob from the other side of the bars, then you could wrap it in an atdm:target_set_frobable brush, initialize the brush to "start_frobable" "0", then trigger the brush at the point where the player is on the other side of the bars.

 

This is for a body that the player has to drop in a particular place. I don't want them to be able to frob it again after that. I'll look into that brush, thanks.

[Melan]

Don't locked chests work like that? I can't remember what texture, specifically, they are using, but...

Edited March 23, 2011 by Melan

[Sotha]

This is for a body that the player has to drop in a particular place. I don't want them to be able to frob it again after that. I'll look into that brush, thanks.

 

You could make an objective for the player to drop the body to a location. When the objective gets fulfilled, completion target could target a trigger_once, which targets a S&R func_static, which sets the body frobability..

[Bikerdude]

you make a brush with the clip texture, then change into a "atdm:target_set_frobable" entity. This is whats used inside a foot locker btw.

[Tels]

You could make an objective for the player to drop the body to a location. When the objective gets fulfilled, completion target could target a trigger_once, which targets a S&R func_static, which sets the body frobability..

 

You mean "When the objective gets fulfilled, completion target could target a trigger_once, which targets a atdm:call_function, which calls a function which simply sets the body frobability" No S&R needed.

[grayman]

This is for a body that the player has to drop in a particular place. I don't want them to be able to frob it again after that. I'll look into that brush, thanks.

 

Drop it down a deeeep dark hole, and they'll never see it again. No stims, no scripts, nothing but net.

[DeTeEff]

Fidcal's Beginners tutorial uses a note that shall be placed inside a chest and he uses S&R to make it unfrobable afterwards...

[demagogue]

The set_frobable entity is really the simplest way to go. Drop something that touches it (or is inside of it?) and it's unfrobable. Easy.

 

I think you want to make sure the objective still checks off, so maybe the set_frobable should start off "start_frobable" "1" (in case you miss the objective space a little), then the objective completion target can target the set_frobable to turn it to unfrobable, to make sure it's really the objective fulfilling that makes it unfrobable, not being inside the brush itself -- in the unlikely case the objective didn't check for some reason and you need to nudge the AI a little. (Even if the boundaries of the set_frobable and objective clip brushes are exactly the same, the algorithm may work differently; you never know. Worth testing first anyway).

[stumpy]

if you want to do it via a script then its

 

$<nameofbody>.setFrobable( 0 );