Force powers other than push/pull trigger scripts.

riceplant · 07-28-2005, 08:42 PM

Can it be done? I want to have some shallow water, and when the player uses lightning on it, it kills everything in it. Or possibly having the player use lightning to start a machine that's out of power. As it is, I can only have events triggered by push/pull, and mind trick on NPCs.

EDIT: I just realised, this is the 7th thread in a row that I've started. Is that OK? It says in the rules you shouldn't be able to look at a page and see you started most of the threads.

yangyan · 07-29-2005, 03:04 AM

posting new topics ownzors. besides, hardly anyone starts new topics now. Like if there was a cake and noone was eating the cake, they cant blame you for being the only one.

For the lightning, use scripting?

riceplant · 07-29-2005, 05:30 AM

You are officially Champion of stating the bleedin' obvious. But seriously, how? Scripts have to be run from a scriptrunner, which in turn must be triggered by a trigger (Big surprise there). I can't find a trigger that is triggered by force powers (Other than func_static for push/pull). However, not all entities are in the menus (misc_camera, for example), and I hope that someone knows a way it can be done.

riceplant · 08-05-2005, 02:03 PM

Anyone?

(Is a week a short enough time before bumping? Or should I just assume that no-one knows, if no-one answers)

lassev · 08-05-2005, 03:48 PM

Well, there is the boolean data type command SET_LIGHTNING among the set_x script commands, so I suppose you could try to check whether it's true with an if statement, possibly launching the check script when a func_usable is being damaged, so that there would be a reasonable chance the force lightning was the reason for the func_usable taking damage.

Obviously, I have no idea if you actually can check the set_lightning like that, but you never know until you try. I'm 87% certain nobody has ever tried it before. You could be the first one. Be sure to report here what happened.