scripting help?

Dragonwraith · **scripting help? -** 08-24-2003, 07:37 PM

I can spawn weapons into stock and custom maps BUT i wanna make the respawn time longer but can't find out how. Also i wanna know if you can script in explosions into dest. vill like the ones in omaha?

bluebrooks · 08-25-2003, 01:11 PM

i never figured out how to change the respawn time, but i would think that there has to be a setting somewhere.

as for the explosions, yes you do this fairly easily with a little scripting.
a) get the coordinates of where you want the explosions to be.
b) write a little thread into destroyed village that spawns them every random amount of seconds.

it would something like...

//(put this part at the main script section
thread crazy_explosions

//(put this part after the main section and before the very bottom
crazy_explosions:
local.waittime = randomint(45) + 15 // gets random # between 15 & 60
wait local.waittime
spawn fx/explosion/mine.tik "origin" "x y z" //where x,y,&z are the coords
// (i just guessed on the tiki file name above)
goto crazy_exlosions

bluebrooks · 08-25-2003, 01:12 PM

of, don't forget an "end" line after the goto to end the thread

Dragonwraith · 08-25-2003, 02:22 PM

thanx,
I'll give it a run and tell ya how it came out

Dragonwraith · 08-25-2003, 02:29 PM

here's the tik you guessed on "emmiters/fx_explosion_mine.tik" but i'v enever been able to get ANY of the emmiter tiks to work. Some one said it was a typo and use "emiters/fx_explosion_mine.tik" (one M) and that still didn't work. Any other ideas?

bluebrooks · 08-26-2003, 11:06 AM

i tried to get emmiters to work and couldn't either.
but that's not how i got my mines to work.

i am at work and don't have the game or pak files in front of me. (not sure if they are still at home either)
but i am almost positive that i didn't use emmitters.
There is an explosion model for mines, and i think that's what i used.
try looking in models/fx/ or something like that. (if have all the game pak files unzipped, do a search through for any file that has mine in it)

what i was doing was creating a minefield. i spawned triggers at certain locations. when the triggers were tripped, the result was a spawn of a mine explosion.
you are basically trying to do the same thing, but spawning the mine explosions on a schedule instead of through a trigger.

Dragonwraith · 08-26-2003, 03:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bluebrooks

//(put this part at the main script section
thread crazy_explosions

//(put this part after the main section and before the very bottom
crazy_explosions:
local.waittime = randomint(45) + 15 // gets random # between 15 & 60
wait local.waittime
spawn fx/explosion/mine.tik "origin" "x y z" //where x,y,&z are the coords
// (i just guessed on the tiki file name above)
goto crazy_exlosions

to make them work you use "emitters" ONE M ans TWO T's... i got smoke sparks and all that stuff to work but i have a question about the script you sent. Do the coors go where "origin" or where "x y & z" go?