Our forum was rather player-directed so we barely needed such thread until now. However I noticed single-question threads are recently breeding like rabbits, starting to get out of control (if they ever were under any). In this situation, let's bring in the habit from the blue forum to gather all those issues in a single spot.
1. How do You disable pushable function when the object is on its target already? I saw such feature in the first Curse of Winter and it would be useful for me to replicate it.
2. How to disable opening the KICK_DOOR or PUSHPULL_DOOR with Action but maintain possibility to open it with a trigger? I mean the way You do it using a SPRINKLER from tulun.wad (and I've seen this in several custom levels as well).
3. Finally, are there any remote ways to set big fires like BURNING_FLOOR or FIREROPE? So Lara wouldn't need to get a torch for this, but the fire could spread itself like it naturally does?
1. Not sure if I co0mpletely understand this question, but... I'm guessing.... use of GT/TG pushable reaches a certain spot?
2. You can transfer the KICK_DOOR/PUSHPULL_DOOR into a regular DOOR_TYPE slot. not sure if you physically disable it. On the tulun.wad file, that door is IN the DOOR_TYPE4 slot, not in the KICK_DOOR/or the PUSHPULL_DOOR slot.
Well... the easy way would be to change the OCB of the pushable with the trigger for that.
Unfortunately that trick is not savegameproof, as I have found out in one of my own levels.
As a workaround I've used the Action>Move triggers to move the actual pushable instantly out of the way, and at the same time instantly move another pushable (with an non-pushable/non-pulleable OCB) in its place. All triggered, with a TriggerGroup from teh script if you want, on the tile where you have to place the pushable.
Pushable 1 - can be pushed and pulled.
Pushable 2 - is placed somewhere in the same room and is then moved away, either into a wall or floor or ceiling, the moment the level starts.
Place a heavy-actiontrigger for moving pushable1 away (either into wall, floor or ceiling).
Place a regluar trigger for action>move triggers to move pushable2 to the triggertile.
Pushable2 is ofcourse an exact copy of pushable1, unless you want it to "change" because it was pushed onto the correct tile.
Other workaroudns might be possible but in some more complicated setup I found this moving of objects to work best.
Lara won't be pushaed around with the instant moving actions so no problems there.
The only thing that might happen is a very slight shift in lighting of the object.
Dwight is right in saying that the tulun door that is opened when the sprinkler is activated is a regular door, not a push-pull door.
@Dj_Full: i like your idea about general questions thread.
I'm being away from LE for a while and cannot check some things myself. However i try to make a gameplay schema as detailed as possible. My question is about train level. I'd like to know if we can have more than four baddies riding on the enemy_jeep. And is it possible to have semi-transparent textures which scrolling correctly in train level?
1. Make a room for scrolling textures and apply a set with semi-transparence set (aside from the usual opaque set) on the floor.
2. Make a room below height zero and add some lighting there (possible also some textures). Because as long as the game engine automatically places the textures in that arrangement that looks like a railroad-track against a pitch-black void, the textures will look opaque. So you have to give your semi-transparent textures some kind of background to make them show their semi-transparence.
@Fluen: thank you, I'll try to add light in that separate room. The problem is a bit different though. When those textures applied to room in opaque mode they scroll as they should. But in transparent mode they scroll always perpendicular to railroad, no matter how they turned in room.
Have you made sure the textures have the correct orientation in the tga-file itself?
You have to be aware that the game engine inserts the scrolling textures by itself to look like a railroad - have you for some reason built your rooms 90 degrees rotated to that railroad?
Sometimes when shatterable object has heavytrigger under it, and when Lara shoots it it doesn`t trigger the heavytrigger thats because sometimes object doesn`t shatter but "dissapear".... my question is why is this happening? what causes this bug? and how to avoid it?
Anybody know how to create a light that flickers, sort of like the submarine level in Tomb Raider Chronicles when Lara finds a battery pack? I know it'll involve some sort of flip map or something.
OverRaider wrote: Sometimes when shatterable object has heavytrigger under it, and when Lara shoots it it doesn`t trigger the heavytrigger thats because sometimes object doesn`t shatter but "dissapear"
That happened in my Trash game where I had really a LOT of shatters (about 50 of them) and most of them were high-polygon, high-resolution crates (Nadine's REALLY detailed stuff ). So my guess is in some of such cases the explosion mask doesn't appear because of the data overload - and the engine likely doesn't know the object was shattered. Use simplier shatters in complex locations and whenever a lot of sprites work in the background (fires burning, rain falling, waterfalls flowing and so on are all very memory-eating). If You have just the architecture and little amount of effects, You can go with the HQ destruction. See if that helps.
larabiker301 wrote: Anybody know how to create a light that flickers, sort of like the submarine level in Tomb Raider Chronicles when Lara finds a battery pack? I know it'll involve some sort of flip map or something.
Organizer= script command with FO_TICK_TIME flag for better realism, and + FO_LOOP flag to work endlessly. Activating several flipmap/flipoff triggergroups in random time intervals (e.g. 12 frames, 2 frames, 5 frames, 20 and so on).
Here's a little of my contribution to this thread.
Does anyone remember how to change the title screen's logo? I've tried Skribblerz's site but they didn't have any tutorial. I completely forgot how, then again, I've never tried.
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