How do I escort someone/something important?

mohaa_rox · Post by **mohaa_rox** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 5:37 am

How do I script up something that wants you to escort someone/something important, like protecting Major Grillo? Then how do I script up something that will fail the mission once he/it is killed/destroyed?

Post by **jv_map** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 7:54 am

Ok, that's one of the most complicated things that are possible with the scripting language. It's very difficult to make a friendly lead the way. Bear in mind he has to follow a certain path and meanwhile has to attack enemies. If you really want to try, take a look at global/friendly.scr.

Making a mission fail as soon as the person is dead, is easy. You just have to start a thread (a separate scripting process) that waits till the character is killed. Then that thread will execute the lose code.

mohaa_rox · Post by **mohaa_rox** » Fri Nov 15, 2002 3:27 am

Thanks a lot. I'll try it.

mohaa_rox · Post by **mohaa_rox** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 4:20 am

So does it also mean like this script?

Let's say my VIP is called Grillo.:

If(IsAlive $Grillo)
$Grillo waittill death
thread missionfail
///////////////
missionfail:
iprintIn "Mission failed. Grillo has been killed."
wait 1
exec global/klled.scr (can't find right texture

)
end

Post by **jv_map** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 6:57 am

I personally thought of something like this:

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main:
	// setup code here
	
	level waittill spawn
	
	// any code here
	
	if(isAlive $grillo)
		$grillo thread grillo_killed
	
	// any more code here
end

grillo_killed:
	$grillo waittill death
	iprintlnbold_noloc "Mission failed. Grillo has been killed."
	wait 3 
	missionfailed
end