Detecting if entity has hit a wall or roof!?

[Elgan]

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hello. is it possible to detect if a moving entity hits a wall or roof of a house or something?


if(istouching$bomb==1){
iprintln "touching house"
}

[lizardkid]

try putting a trigger_multiple around the area you want to test and use istouching.

[Elgan]

ok, wont that only detect people?

[Bjarne BZR]

Only people will trigger it, but you can still use it as an entity to test if it is touching something.

[tltrude]

Might help, if you tell us what you are trying to do.

[Elgan]

well i have a bomb that falls to the floor but if it is over a roof it goes through the roof..

i want to make it detect if it hits the roof and stop mooving.

[lizardkid]

so, you want a bomb to fall through the roof, into the floor?

[Elgan]

i wnat it not to go throuh the roof...so if it hits a roof it stops. but if their is no roof it hits the floor

[bdbodger]

What I do is do a trace from the bomb down like this

local.bottom_spot = ($airraid_speaker.origin + ( 0 0 -2048))
local.spot = trace $airraid_speaker.origin local.bottom_spot 0
local.bomb= spawn script_model "targetname" "bomb"
$bomb model "ammo/us_bomb.tik"
$bomb.origin = $airraid_speaker.origin
$bomb.angles= ( 90 0 0 )
$bomb notsolid
$bomb playsound drop_bomb
$bomb speed 800
$bomb moveto local.spot
$bomb waitmove
$bomb immediateremove


The trace gives you a spot where it hit something .

[Elgan]

yay i love u.lol. ok...

it works great.ty:P

ok. when i try to spawn fire...it always spawns at 0 0 0. but if i change the model wiht the same code. it spawns at the origin i gave it.. is it different for fire?

[lizardkid]

spawning should be universal for the whole game, just put in
thing.origin x y z like,

$fire.origin 1 1 1

[Elgan]

the fire just will not spawn ina coord:@

[lizardkid]

are you using

spawn models/fx/fire.tik "origin" "x y z"

???

if that's not the path then just right click for the big popup window and find the fire you want and replace fx/fire.tik with the modelname that appears in the entity properties window.

[Elgan]

ok.grr. i just used a different fire model and it worked fine...ty anyways:P

[lizardkid]

what fire model are you trying for? i'd like to try it out. if i get it to work ill let you know.