Newbie DarkRadiant Questions

[Jesps]

With my simpleton brain hurting so. Help will be appreciated

 

Obsttorte suggested a script:

 

void checkForScepter()

{

if ($player1.heldEntity() == $scepter)

{

sys.trigger($teleporter);

}

}

 

You could try adding

print("some message")

and see, in the console, if the function is even called correctly

 

void checkForScepter(){
 print("checkForScepter running");
 if ($player1.heldEntity() == $scepter){
print("player is holding scepter");
sys.trigger($teleporter);
 }
}

[Tr00pertj]

I receive an error message from line 2:

[grayman]

sys.println("your message here");

 

The Devil is always in the details.

[Obsttorte]

@tr00pertj: How did you set it up?

[Goldwell]

How do you increase the range an AI will see the player and then attack them? my AI is an archer btw

[grayman]

The simplest thing to do is to increase his visual acuity, "acuity_vis". This will improve his low-light acuity, but might not provide much improvement over the default acuity when the player is well-lit.

 

There are distance limits built into the code, and they can't be changed for one AI. How far away did you want him to spot the player? And will the player be well lit, or not, and what is the "_color" setting of your ambient_world?

[Obsttorte]

You can increase the lightgem value with "lightgem_offset" or so set on worldspawn. This will cause the lightgem to be more lit and therefore cause the ai to spot the player more easely.

 

Are you actually just aiming for the ai to spot the player a bit more easely, or is this something you need in a specific situation that only applies to one ai?

 

Making the ai spot the player a bit worse one far distances was included in 1.08 IIRC, as it was quite a bit unrealistic and annoying before. You should have a good reason if you want to change that dramatically.

[grayman]

You can increase the lightgem value with "lightgem_offset" or so set on worldspawn. This will cause the lightgem to be more lit and therefore cause the ai to spot the player more easely.

 

That will work, but it will affect all AI, not just one. It depends on what effect you're trying to create.

[Moonbo]

I would suggest having the sceptre act as a key so that you need to use it to "unlock" the teleportation effect. Either that or you could use stim response and have the player rub the sceptre against some object to trigger the teleport

 

You can use the "wait" spawnarg on a trigger relay to delay the teleport while the sound plays. Let me know if that makes sense :-).

[Obsttorte]

The delay can also be put into the script.

 

I'm a bit curious that the script don't seem to work for you. I guess you've set up something wrong in DR, as you don't have to know anything about scripting to use it.

 

You can also pm me if you don't get this to work.

[Goldwell]

Basically it's a courtyard with archers and because they have a better vantage point I want them to see further. But I guess for now I will just leave it as it is and worry about tweaking that later.

[Kvorning]

Sorry to ask the same question twice, but was there anyone who could shed some light on the missing water properties?

 

Brush selected+create entity>atdm:liquid_water = no water physics.

 

Surface textures working just fine and looks lovely, but when you stick your head under, the illusion breaks.

[Fidcal]

Since you don't say if you tried the answers given, here they are again...

 

dmap after changing the entity to water.

 

Check there is no worldspawn within (origin?) the water entity.

[Kvorning]

I suppose my answer back then was a bit vague, but I've tried removing all brushes and entities, even put the water inside an empty box and remade it. No luck.

 

Dmapped about 25 times to do other work on the map as well.

[Tr00pertj]

Is there a simple script I could put in before the if ($player1.heldEntity() == $scepter) entry that would first check to see if objectives 1 AND 6 AND (2 OR 3 OR 4) are complete.

 

I thought of attaching the trigger_entityname_1 to a mover that would be an objective and only slide down into position if objectives 1 AND 6 AND (2 OR 3 OR 4) are complete.

 

But also thought a script would do the job better as the trigger_entityname_1 would still be in the map just out of the way. How can I turn the trigger_entityname_1 ( it`s a trigger_touch) off and on? At the moment it starts on but if I turn it off the teleport doesn't happen.

[Fidcal]

Kvorning:

 

1. Is the water entity origin within the water brush(es)? For instance, you might have made a square donut shape of sewer tunnels consisting of 4 brushes then made it a water entity but the origin by default will be in the centre of the donut hole not within water.

 

2. Create a simple brush elsewhere in the map within a big clear area not overlapping any other brushes, patches, visportals, etc. and convert it to water and dmap. Does it work? If so, find out what is different between that situation and the situation where your other one doesn't. If nothing obvious then backup your map and start with a new copy. Reduce your troublesome water to a minimum so it's just one brush. Dmap. Does it work? Keep testing parts of it like that until you isolate what works and what doesn't. Ultimately you should discover the problem and can then fix it. You may be able to go to earlier backup and make one simple change or you might have to rebuild the water.

[Kvorning]

Yeah I'm afraid the entity is inside the brush, it's a simple cube shape for each volume. Weird thing is, I've made a testmap that's just 1 room, player start and world light. Made a water volume in the buttom, that does not intersect with anything what so ever.

 

At first it didn't work, but after changing the volume about 6-7 times and dmapping, it became a swimmable liquid with fog. Then it just stopped after another dmap. Tried another 10 times, and it worked, and then stopped.

 

Something fishy is going on.

 

By the way my map is done, just wanted to say This is one of a few bugs I want fixed before releasing it.

[Fidcal]

it's a simple cube shape for each volume. ... after changing the volume about 6-7 times

 

It's not at all clear what you are doing here. It sounds like the water entity is not one simple block. Try a single, simple brush not several and get that working as water first.

 

What I'm saying is, you may need to make several different water entities, not just one that covers several brushes. It depends on the layout.

 

If you create a single brush water entity and dmap and it's deep enough to wade or swim in and its properties fail then it sounds like a serious bug. But I'm not convinced that's what you are doing.

[Springheel]

When odd things happen with dmap, I recommend deleting the .cm and . Proc files in the map folder. Sometimes dmap doesn't overwrite them properly.

[grayman]

Is there a simple script I could put in before the if ($player1.heldEntity() == $scepter) entry that would first check to see if objectives 1 AND 6 AND (2 OR 3 OR 4) are complete.

 

if ( $player1.getObjectiveState( <your objective number here> ) == 1 )
{
 // the objective has been met
}
else
{
 // the objective hasn't been met
}

[Kvorning]

@Fidcal

 

Well the last thing is exactly much what I'm doing.

 

I found the problem though, as per the guide (http://wiki.thedarkm...php?title=Water) I was using, I had a volume with nodraw on the sides to prevent z-fighting. So I tried changing all sides to caulk and only putting nodraw on the sides that connect to another volume.

 

Now it works!

 

Edit: All sides except for obviously the surface

Edited July 30, 2013 by Kvorning

[Obsttorte]

[grayman]

Something fishy is going on.

 

Sure is.

 

Here's another way of approaching the problem: copy a working body of water from another map and see how it behaves in your map. Adjust the sides to make it the size you need.

 

This is a test map I'm using to debug water splash sound propagation. It's worked every time.

 

bug3413.map.txt

[Kvorning]

Cool, thanks Grayman, I'm still gonna take a look at that out of curiosity

[grayman]

if ( $player1.getObjectiveState( <your objective number here> ) == 1 )
{
 // the objective has been met
}
else
{
 // the objective hasn't been met
}

 

To specifically fit your situation ...

 

if ( ( $player1.getObjectiveState(1) == 1 ) && ( $player1.getObjectiveState(6) == 1 ) &&
( ( $player1.getObjectiveState(2) == 1 ) || ( $player1.getObjectiveState(3) == 1 ) || ( $player1.getObjectiveState(4) == 1 ) ) )
{
 // the objectives have been met
}
else
{
 // the objectives haven't been met
}