Scripting: Nade triggering Light

[Cheetohs]

Here is what i want to do (its a small screw around map that i made for a friend..), i made a soccer net and i want it so that when a nade is thrown into the net, a goal-light will flash.

How might i rig this up? Thanks.

[Rookie One.pl]

FFS!!! Read the entity descriptions! Make a trigger_multiple, hit N and read what's there first (hint: a grenade is a projectile) instead of spamming the forum!!!

[Cheetohs]

Look, I'm not very good (AT ALL) at scripting. I know nothing more than how to script a rotatingdoor, and even that i screw up on half the time! , I'm sorry if you consider this 'spamming' but what you said did not help me much. But thanks anyway for the impatient, somewhat-rude.. reply.

[Rookie One.pl]

Geez... It has very little to do with scripting! Go to the entity properties, set the right spawnflags, in the script put a $grenade_trigger waittill trigger and then the light stuff! As for the light, don't tell me you don't know how to do it and where to look - it has been mentioned a thousand times! See any switchable light tutorial and you're going to know the drill...

And FFS PLEASE - develop a skill of finding a solution on your own...

<EDIT>Sorry for rudeness, but it's really annoying when someone asks a question without even trying to find a solution in all available sources... I think I've picked this up at Linux forums, where you get flamed and RTFM-ed everytime you ask about something which is very obvious to the others. I learnt that asking the other people for help and spamming the forums should be the last resort thing. I know I tend to break this rule, too, but I really try to improve on that point.

And remember: Use Google, Luke! Google is your friend...</EDIT>

[lizardkid]

it's brning in here...

ok Cheetohs, you have your net, make the light, just use a regular light entity for the light, give it a $targetname of goalLight1. now make a triger_multiple inside it, and hit "N" (for eNtities), now tick the checkbox marked PROJECTILES. now put in the key/value box $targetname - goalTrig

got it so far? yay!

and put this thread in the script.

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goalLight:

level.doTheLight = 1

while(level.doTheLight == 1)
{
$goalLight1 hide
$goalTrig waittil trigger
$goalLight show
wait 5
$goalLight hide
}

end

oh, and in your main: thread. put in the line

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thread goalLight

just before the "end"

[Green Beret]

i feel the love in here

[Cheetohs]

<3

Arg, It didn't work.. the light is on to begin with and nothing happens when i throw a nade in the net.

[lizardkid]

hmmm... you ticked projectiles right? on the trigger...

lets see the script just to make sure you've got threads in the right places

[jv_map]

Cool down Rookie One. I mean it.

[Green Beret]

yea,i seen the threads were called in the wrong place

[Master-Of-Fungus-Foo-D]

you cannot trigger a light entity(from my knowledge). The light is COMPILED into the map so therefore you cant do that. I think you have to use an fx/dummy.tik and do some trick with it.... mayb you need to pay it a dollar (lame joke)

(im searching for that old topic i asked.. or was it in the mapping forum )

[wacko]

Krane and I did an easy way for kind of triggering a light in containerz: we did show/hide brushes with a custom texture:

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textures/mgturret/leucht_blue
{
	qer_editorimage textures/mgturret/leucht_blue.tga
	surfaceparm nomarks
	q3map_surfacelight 10000
	{
		map $lightmap
		rgbGen identity
	}
	{
		map textures/mgturret/leucht_blue.tga
		blendFunc GL_DST_COLOR GL_ZERO
		rgbGen identity
	}
	{
		map textures/mgturret/leucht_blue.tga
		blendfunc GL_ONE GL_ONE
	}
}

this might be fine for u too?! It isn't really 'shining' but looks burning atleast.

too bad, the mapping forum is absent (still thinking positive). there was a thread of mine called flickeing torch or dunno, where we (jv mostly) did a flickering light. This would be exactly what u need! Maybe i'll find something on my hdd...

[wacko]

eureka! I found jv's demo map!

The light there is flickering and would be easy to switch on and off! bad thing was that this light shines through walls (there's a bright circle on the back of the wall where the light is), because the light doesn't recognize the wall and the compiler doesn't know the light But this is prob no prob for u, is it?

here u are: jv's light.pk3. It got map, bsp (SP) and script. all u need!

Or:
Here's the script

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main:
	level waittill spawn
	
	// run thread for all lights
	for(local.i = 1; local.i <= $light.size; local.i++)
		$light[local.i] thread flicker
end

flicker:
	self light 1 0.8 1 128
	while(1)
	{
		wait (randomfloat 0.5)
		self lightRadius (randomfloat 128)
		waitframe // don't change the light within one frame
	}
end

The light itself is a script_model with targetname 'light' and a model 'lights/lightbulb_caged.tik'

[Cheetohs]

sounds great wacko.. thanks a lot.. ill put it to use as soon as i can.

[HDL_CinC_Dragon]

wow, can cut the love in here with a butter knife. Rookie one, this is actually a moderate to expert script... if im not mistaking...