Mortar Hit????

[Shifty]

For my Stargate im hoping to add a mortar hit before the gate opens to represent the kawoosh effect - water plume that shoots from the gate before the event horizon (puddle) forms

How would I achieve this? I imagine it would be tied into the trigger on my pedestal so i dont really need help there I just need to know how to add the effect.... cheers

[tltrude]

It is under Animate. But, I think you will not be able to make it fall back sideways.

animate > fx > mortar-water

You'll probably have to make a new tik for what you want. First try making a script_model using the "fx_mortar_water.tik" model. "grenexp_water.tik" might be a good one to modify--under fx.

[Shifty]

cheers ill try that but i still got 4 hours to go till i finish work so it wont be till later

[Shifty]

How do I get this to run do i have to add it to my script?

If so can I get it to run from a trigger use?

So...

In the map i'd add the mortar via script_model (fx_mortar_water.tik)

or could i use script_object and then add the model to it in the key/value area?

So then
have the tigger_use with k/v of targetname : waterboom
then the script_model or script_object with k/v of target : waterboom

then in the script (My Scripting knonwledge is terrible so I doubt this will be right but ill have a go)

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main: 

   // set scoreboard messages 
	setcvar "g_obj_alliedtext1" "" 
	setcvar "g_obj_alliedtext2" "" 
	setcvar "g_obj_alliedtext3" "" 
	setcvar "g_obj_axistext1" "" 
	setcvar "g_obj_axistext2" "" 
	setcvar "g_obj_axistext3" "" 

	setcvar "g_scoreboardpic" "none"

level waittill prespawn 

	exec global/DMprecache.scr 
	level.script = "maps/dm/dm_boomtest.scr"

	$waterboom nottriggerable
	thread waterboom

level waittill spawn 

end

////WATERBOOM/////
thread waterboom

	$waterboom triggerable

end

[Shifty]

Has Anyone had a chance to look at this yet???

[Shifty]

Ok i'm bumping this again anyone feel like helping cos its needed for my stargate project......

Thanks

[kai0ty]

well since i hate talking to myself as it appears ur doing, ill tell ya that i dont even know waht it is ur trying to acieve. ive never watched stargate, so i have no idea what the "puddle" effect it.

[Shifty]

Just like this

[kai0ty]

sweet jesus!
well why not just make a cylinder that progressively get bigger??
texture it with water and viola.

[wacko]

as I had the pleasure to play around with the tiki of animate/adam-pipe-steam for something i wanted to achieve, I believe that this is something u should try too. No idea though how u could realize a fall back, maybe with two tikis (one forth and one back), but altleast there's that growing and steaming look...

[tltrude]

I think you must be loosing brain cells fast. It is easy to animate an explosion entity. Don't target the trigger with the entity. Give the entity a targetname like, "waterboom" and the trigger_use a targetname like, "waterboom_trigger".

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main: 

   // set scoreboard messages 
   setcvar "g_obj_alliedtext1" "dm_boomtest" 
   setcvar "g_obj_alliedtext2" "" 
   setcvar "g_obj_alliedtext3" "" 
   setcvar "g_obj_axistext1" "" 
   setcvar "g_obj_axistext2" "" 
   setcvar "g_obj_axistext3" "" 

   setcvar "g_scoreboardpic" "none" 

level waittill prespawn 

   exec global/DMprecache.scr 
   level.script = "maps/dm/dm_boomtest.scr" 
 
   $waterboom anim idle
   thread waterboom 

level waittill spawn 

end 

////WATERBOOM/////
 
waterboom: 

   $waterboom_trigger waittill trigger
   $waterboom anim start
   wait 2  //  adjust this time for desired effect (full animation is 3.5 or more).
   $waterboom anim idle
   wait 3  // delay before trigger is reset
   goto waterboom

end

It will probably go streight up because it says "angles 0 0 crandom 360" several times in the tik file for that explosion.

[wacko]

I think you must be loosing brain cells fast

[Shifty]

I think you must be loosing brain cells fast.

Thanks for the help

[Shifty]

Well I've played around with the tiki and changing the angles doesnt effect where the beggining of the mortar hit comes from so I'm dumping that idea.

So now i really don't know what to do to get this effect in the map

[tltrude]

Find one that does explode sideways and change it into water. To save time you can spawn the explosions and test different ones by just changing the tiki in the script.

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main: 

   // set scoreboard messages 
   setcvar "g_obj_alliedtext1" "dm_boomtest" 
   setcvar "g_obj_alliedtext2" "" 
   setcvar "g_obj_alliedtext3" "" 
   setcvar "g_obj_axistext1" "" 
   setcvar "g_obj_axistext2" "" 
   setcvar "g_obj_axistext3" "" 

   setcvar "g_scoreboardpic" "none"

local.master = spawn ScriptMaster
local.master aliascache flush_gate sound/weapons/explo/exp_water_03.wav soundparms 1.0 0.2 0.8 0.4 1000 8000 weapon loaded maps "m dm obj " 

level waittill prespawn 

   exec global/DMprecache.scr 
   level.script = "maps/dm/dm_boomtest.scr" 
  
   $waterboom anim idle 
   thread waterboom 

level waittill spawn 

end 

////WATERBOOM///// 
  
waterboom: 

   $waterboom_trigger waittill trigger
 
   local.flush = spawn script_model angle "90"  // This may not be the right angle
   local.flush model models/emitters/fireball_matrix.tik 
   local.flush.origin = $waterboom.origin + (0 0 0)
   local.flush.scale = 1
   local.flush anim start
   local.flush playsound flush_gate

   wait 3  // delay before trigger is reset 
   goto waterboom 

end