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Friendly help..
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 11:07 am
by Mj
Ok, I have some friends (lol) who like to scrash my game
Here is the problematic part - (the entire script is about 950 lines long now)
They keep crashing! And if i set the barneynames when I spawn them, they do not respond to commands
Even changing them to level.friendly1 + 2 didnt help
Help!
Code: Select all
allieddude:
iprintlnbold "Gogo alliedguy1"
thread Halftracksetup
local.speaker = spawn human/1st-ranger_lieutenant.tik
local.speaker hide
local.speaker say dfr_M3L3_352c
local.speaker waittill saydone
local.speaker remove
wait .1
level.lt = spawn human/1st-ranger_lieutenant.tik
level.lt.origin = $alliedwallscale1
// level.lt.angles = $alliedwallscale1
level.lt noticescale 100
level.lt mindist 0
level.lt maxdist 1000
level.lt leash 10000
// level.lt gun "MP40"
level.lt.accuracy= 30
level.lt.health = 300
level.lt exec global/disable_ai.scr
level.lt notsolid
// level.lt say dfr_M3L3_352c
// level.lt waittill saydone
level.lt anim_noclip wallscale
level.lt waittill animdone
level.lt solid
level.lt exec global/enable_ai.scr
level.lt runto alliedguynode2
// level.lt = level.friendly2
wait .1
thread allieddude2
end
Halftracksetup:
$halftrack_gunner show
$halftrack show
$halftrack solid
$doorwalls notsolid
$dooropenl notsolid
$dooropenl show
$dooropenr notsolid
$dooropenr show
$doorclosedl notsolid
$doorclosedl hide
$doorclosedr notsolid
$doorclosedr hide
thread halftrack_ambush
iprintlnbold "HalftrackGoGo!"
end
allieddude2:
iprintlnbold "Gogo alliedguy2"
wait 1
level.sgt = spawn human/1st-ranger_sergeant.tik
level.sgt.origin = $alliedwallscale2
// level.sgt.angles = $alliedwallscale2
level.sgt noticescale 100
level.sgt mindist 0
level.sgt maxdist 1000
level.sgt leash 10000
level.sgt gun "thompson"
level.sgt.accuracy= 20
level.sgt.health = 300
// level.sgt targetname $sgt
level.sgt exec global/disable_ai.scr
level.sgt notsolid
level.sgt anim_noclip wallscale
level.sgt waittill animdone
level.sgt solid
level.sgt exec global/enable_ai.scr
level.sgt runto alliedguynode
level.sgt lookAt $player
// level.sgt = level.friendly1
wait .1
thread alliestalk
end
alliestalk:
iprintlnbold "speaking..."
level.sgt lookat $player
level.lt lookat $player
level.sgt say dfr_M3L3_356c //"Sergeant Harrison, Pathfinders, 101st."
level.sgt waittill saydone
level.sgt say dfr_m3l3_idle
wait .1
thread followtheleader
end
followtheleader:
//set barneynames and such
level.sgt.friendtype = 1
level.sgt thread global/friendly.scr::friendlythink
level.sgt.destination = $player
level.sgt.distance = 150
level.lt.friendtype = 1
level.lt thread global/friendly.scr::friendlythink
level.lt.destination = $player
level.lt.distance = 100
level.sgt = level.friendly1
level.lt = level.friendly2
end
Thanks,
Mj
Re: Friendly help..
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 11:53 am
by Rookie One.pl
Mj wrote: level.lt.origin = $alliedwallscale1
// level.lt.angles = $alliedwallscale1
Cannot cast entity to type vector.
Mj wrote: level.lt runto alliedguynode2
// level.lt = level.friendly2
Run to what?
Mj wrote: level.sgt.origin = $alliedwallscale2
// level.sgt.angles = $alliedwallscale2
Again, cannot cast entity to type vector.
Mj wrote: level.sgt runto alliedguynode
Again... Run to what?
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 12:22 pm
by Mj
The spawning and the runto's all work perfectly...
They do follow me - until they see an enemy, they they crash as the friendly.scr casts them as null... or something incomprehensible like that!
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 6:09 pm
by lizardkid
holy shit... this is why i hate that sort of spawning, spawning two htings takes 900000 lines...
half that stuff is uneeded, already defaul set. accuracy, noticescale etc.
as to the real problem, name them $friendly1 and $friendly2 etc. i believe friendly.scr requires that...
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 6:24 pm
by Mj
I tried that to no avail
I think I'll just make them run out infront of the halftrack and die
<--- n00b scripter
Almost finished, final script = about 1300 lines
Its my crappy spawning technique
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 9:42 pm
by bdbodger
If you are useing the global/friendly.scr then you need to name them all $friendly and give them a key:fnum value:1 to the number of friendlies you have . ie the first one is fnum 1 the second friendly is fnum 2 etc then exec the global/friendly.scr it will make the guy who is fnum 1 level.friendly1 etc etc
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 9:44 pm
by Mj
level.friendly = spawn human/1st-ranger_lieutenant.tik
level.friendly.origin = $alliedwallscale1
level.friendly.accuracy= 30
level.friendly.health = 300
level.friendly fnum 1
level.friendly exec global/disable_ai.scr
level.friendly notsolid
level.friendly anim_noclip wallscale
level.friendly waittill animdone
level.friendly solid
level.friendly exec global/enable_ai.scr
level.friendly runto alliedguynode2
Ye think that would work?
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 9:50 pm
by bdbodger
you posted while I was editing my post read my post again
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 10:01 am
by bdbodger
One other thing why are you spawning them is this single player or multi ?
For the global/friendly.scr to work right you need a map with pathnodes and some of them need to have the targetname friendlynode or something like that spaced through out the map every so often , ones at the beginning of the map with a low set number and ones at the end of the map with a higher set number . There is lots of info written at the top of the global/friendly.scr . Also the friendly.scr uses commands to follow the player but they won't work very well in multi .
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 11:32 am
by Mj
Its single player, and I am making them jump over some sandbags using the wallscale thing... I've fixed the problem by making them run out infront of the halftrack
Thanks for your help anyway
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 9:10 pm
by bdbodger
Ok I see well then you aren't useing the global/friendly.scr the level.friendly part made me think you where .
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 9:42 pm
by Mj
I was trying... but whatever i did to try and make them follow me made them crash
Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 10:10 am
by bdbodger
I see well it is not that hard really all you need to do is make the friendly nodes not spaced too close together and lots of regular nodes . make sure that you give the friendlynodes set numbers starting at 10 and then going up by 10 . Make your ai all with the targetname friendly and the key fnum 1 for the first ai then 2 for the second ai etc etc then
Before level waittill spawn "exec global/friendly.scr".
when you are ready for them to follow you you do like it says in the friendly.scr
// When you want to turn on the friendly AI, do "level.friendly# thread global/friendly.scr::friendlythink".
// Afterwards you can set his friendtype like this: level.friendly#.friendtype = 1.
basically that is it they should work but if you are trying to spawn them then they have to be in the map before you exec the friendly.scr . They should follow you without you haveing to do any more scripting . You might want to set thier min,max,distance and waittime (they determine how close he has to get to nodes before he goes for his next node and how long he waits at each node before following the player).
Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 10:50 am
by Mj
Wow, thats really helpful of you!
Thanks alot!
I'll see what I can do with my new knowledge
Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 7:01 pm
by Mj
Thanks alot, it worked a treat
(it was putting .waittime that fixed it)