Newbie DarkRadiant Questions

[SteveL]

p.s. Tip for debugging scripts: console command "com_noprint 0" will let you see console messages without having to open the console. It'll print 3 lines of console text at the top of your screen while playing, so you can see the output of your "sys.println()" messages easily. "com_noprint 1" will turn it off again.

[grayman]

While the above script provides detail, the answer to "is John alert?" can be determined using

 

ai john = $John;

if (john.AI_AlertIndex > 0)

{

// john's alert

}

[Deshtat]

Too bad, I was hesitating between the two of them, since I didn't understand why it was talking about an "other" AI x)

 

I'm having a small problem right now... I'm trying to explain to the player how to pick a lock with popup messages. The problem is that this is quite long to explain, and my messages can't hold more than six lines.

Therefore, I tried to trigger two different messages :

 

- The first has a "show" of 7 seconds, and a "wait" of 14000 milliseconds.

- The second one as a "delay" of 7 seconds, a "show" of 7 seconds, and a "wait" of 14000 milliseconds

- Both of them are targeted by a trigger_multiple. The first is on "target0", and the second is on "target1".

 

I thought that, by doing so, I could get the two messages to appear one after the other, and to repeat themselves. The "delay" and the "show" seem to work fine, but they don't seem to follow my "wait" instructions, and they keep appearing on top of each other after one or two seconds.

Edited March 1, 2015 by Deshtat

[Obsttorte]

Why not triggering them after each other by using a trigger_relay?

[Deshtat]

I don't really know how it works yet ^^

 

So should I create a trigger_multiple, that targets a trigger_relay, that targets the two messages?

[SteveL]

The trigger multi will always trigger all its targets at the same time. So you need a separate trigger for each message.

 

I think the right setup is: trigger_multi targets msg1 AND trigger_relay. triger_relay has a delay and targets msg2.

[Obsttorte]

Yep, that's what I've meant

[Deshtat]

Well, I just tried this, but it doesn't seem to work either. Oh well, I'll check this later ^^ Thanks guys!

 

I have another issue though : there is a moment when the player has to knock a guard unconscious. If the player fails by alerting the guard (for instance, if he hits his back instead of his head), he gets teleported back, and the guard gets back to his first position with an alert lvl of 0.

 

The problem is the following : even if the guard's alert lvl is set to 0 again, he still "remembers" being alerted at some point, and he keeps his weapon out. In this state, he can't be knocked out.

 

Is there a way to prevent him from remembering previous alerts? Or at least, to make him act natural again?

Edited March 1, 2015 by Deshtat

[SteveL]

I guess you could destroy and recreate him, but maybe grayman knows a more humane method

[grayman]

Do you just want his weapon sheathed, or do you want him to forget everything that he was aware of?

[Deshtat]

I think I would like him to forget everything, just like he was at his appearance in the map. Maybe it would solve the problem, because it seems that, once he spotted the player once, he cannot be knocked out.

 

But, yeah, if he could sheath his blade as well, that would be nice too.

 

It wasn't really a problem before, because the player had no way to alert the guards past lvl 1 or 2 before they were reset, but in this case he can set his alert lvl from 4 to 5 in a single mistake.

Edited March 1, 2015 by Deshtat

[Moonbo]

IMHO, just removing the AI and respawning an identical one (giving it the same name etc via the respawn script) is going to be the cleanest way to do what you're going for. Otherwise you're likely to run into all kinds of strange circumstances that will disrupt what you're trying to do.

 

If you check out the map script for Lich Queens Demise it has a very good example of setting up this kind of respawning.

Edited March 1, 2015 by Moonbo

[Deshtat]

Well it was still a little complicated for me to understand, but I found another way to solve the problem ^^ I gave the AI the spawnarg "draws_weapon 0", this way he never actually draws it. Apparently, having a weapon in its hands prevents an AI from being knocked out, whatever the alert level.

[grayman]

It's easy to get him to re-sheathe his weapon, but there's no way to have him forget what he's seen and experienced short of killing him off and respawning him.

[grayman]

Apparently, having a weapon in its hands prevents an AI from being knocked out, whatever the alert level.

 

That's not entirely the case, but if you've found something that works for you, that's good.

[Deshtat]

there's no way to have him forget what he's seen and experienced short of killing him

 

Man, mapping sounds like mafia business sometimes x)

 

What is the command to make an AI re-sheathe, by the way? ^^

[Obsttorte]

void emptyHand(string hand) maybe.

[grayman]

What is the command to make an AI re-sheathe, by the way? ^^

 

To have an AI re-sheathe a weapon when he falls back to the lowest Alert Index, give him this spawnarg:

 

"disable_alert_idle" "1"

[Deshtat]

Thanks a lot!

[Destined]

I have a short question, that might already have been asked here (but 226 pages with over 5600 posts is too much for me to look through and a quick search did not help): How can I display a message in the game. Just as a comment for the player (e.g. "You are now in pagan territory" or something like that). I did not find it in the script event list, but maybe I just overlooked it. And another thing: How can I make in-game menus for decisions (e.g. "Which direction do you want to push the lever?" with the options "left" and "right")? Thanks in advance for any help given!

Edited March 2, 2015 by Destined

[Obsttorte]

In game messages can be done via atdm:gui_message. You can find it under targets.

 

The latter is a bit more difficult and requires scripting. Some buttons (including the movement ones) can be retrieved via $player1.getButtons(). You'll have to check which number corresponds to which button.

[Destined]

Ok, I will try that. I will write again, if it worked (and also if it did not...). Thank you!

[Tr00pertj]

Hay, Obbs & Geyman,

 

Easy on the information right?

 

I can't help but think some one here is not sharing their knowledge with the forum.

[Obsttorte]

What do you mean, exactly?

[Moonbo]

I'm using a script to repeatedly spawn and then remove a torchlight (just the light entity, not a full torch). The problem I'm running into is that when I remove the light entity the torch burning sound still plays (so maybe the bound speaker isn't being removed?). Because this particular script is running in a loop, this results in a new crackling fire sound every time I spawn/remove a light which soon makes my map sound like a raging inferno. I guess my questions are:

 

1) Is this a bug? Is there any way to get rid of the torch sound when removing the torch light entity?

 

2) A workaround that I found is to extinguish the torch, wait a second, and then remove it. I'd rather not do this because it diminishes the effect I'm trying to go for, and I'm also worried that even though the sound is gone the sound entity hasn't been removed and that with enough time I'm going to end up spawning tons of speaker entities without my knowing it. Is there any way for me to be sure that I'm not creating "garbage" entities with this script (like a console command listing the number of entities in a map)?

Edited March 4, 2015 by Moonbo