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Category:	CoD 2 Level Design CoD 2 mapping and level design.
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Topic: Multiple Floor Elevator Script

(VM)Monkey

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Category: CoD 2 Level Design Posted: Monday, Aug. 20, 2007 03:21 am
I had a request for how I did my elevator, so I thought I would post it on here in case it could help anybody else. I have a tower in my map, with 11 floors accessible by elevators. Simply shoot the button that corresponds to the floor you want to go to, the door will close, and take you to your intended destination. This is the radiant view: There are a few major components: The large group of brushes that make up the main part of the cab (walls, floor, ceiling), which I named "acab" The doors that are attached to the cab. There are four independent sliding panels, similar to a modern elevator. They are named aclo, acli, acri, acro (basically, elevator a, cab door, left outside, etc) The doors that are at the individual floors. This was the pain in the but part, there may be an easier way, but they're named similar to the cab doors, a1lo, a2lo, etc. Instead of "c" for cab, they have the floor number. The group of button triggers to tell the elevator where to go. These are all named buttonatrig. The way the script knows which floor they point to is they are given a script_noteworthy of the floor number. For example, the one that will take the elevator to the third floor has a script_noteworthy of "3" These triggers are linked to the actual button brushes, which don't need to be named, in this script. Now for the fun part, the scripting. Code: main() { maps\mp\_load::main(); // setExpFog(0.0001, 0.55, 0.6, 0.55, 0); setCullFog(0, 10000, 0.55, 0.6, 0.55, 0); ambientPlay("ambient_mp_vmtower"); game["allies"] = "american"; game["axis"] = "german"; game["attackers"] = "allies"; game["defenders"] = "axis"; game["american_soldiertype"] = "airborne"; game["german_soldiertype"] = "coats"; // Set some cvars setcvar("r_glowbloomintensity0","1"); setcvar("r_glowbloomintensity1","1"); setcvar("r_glowskybleedintensity0",".5"); thread towerInit(); } towerInit() { eleva = spawnstruct(); eleva.cab = spawnstruct(); for(i=0; i<11; i++) { eleva.floor[i] = spawnstruct(); } eleva.floor[0].ri = getent("a0ri", "targetname"); eleva.floor[0].ro = getent("a0ro", "targetname"); eleva.floor[0].li = getent("a0li", "targetname"); eleva.floor[0].lo = getent("a0lo", "targetname"); eleva.floor[1].ri = getent("a1ri", "targetname"); eleva.floor[1].ro = getent("a1ro", "targetname"); eleva.floor[1].li = getent("a1li", "targetname"); eleva.floor[1].lo = getent("a1lo", "targetname"); eleva.floor[2].ri = getent("a2ri", "targetname"); eleva.floor[2].ro = getent("a2ro", "targetname"); eleva.floor[2].li = getent("a2li", "targetname"); eleva.floor[2].lo = getent("a2lo", "targetname"); eleva.floor[3].ri = getent("a3ri", "targetname"); eleva.floor[3].ro = getent("a3ro", "targetname"); eleva.floor[3].li = getent("a3li", "targetname"); eleva.floor[3].lo = getent("a3lo", "targetname"); eleva.floor[4].ri = getent("a4ri", "targetname"); eleva.floor[4].ro = getent("a4ro", "targetname"); eleva.floor[4].li = getent("a4li", "targetname"); eleva.floor[4].lo = getent("a4lo", "targetname"); eleva.floor[5].ri = getent("a5ri", "targetname"); eleva.floor[5].ro = getent("a5ro", "targetname"); eleva.floor[5].li = getent("a5li", "targetname"); eleva.floor[5].lo = getent("a5lo", "targetname"); eleva.floor[6].ri = getent("a6ri", "targetname"); eleva.floor[6].ro = getent("a6ro", "targetname"); eleva.floor[6].li = getent("a6li", "targetname"); eleva.floor[6].lo = getent("a6lo", "targetname"); eleva.floor[7].ri = getent("a7ri", "targetname"); eleva.floor[7].ro = getent("a7ro", "targetname"); eleva.floor[7].li = getent("a7li", "targetname"); eleva.floor[7].lo = getent("a7lo", "targetname"); eleva.floor[8].ri = getent("a8ri", "targetname"); eleva.floor[8].ro = getent("a8ro", "targetname"); eleva.floor[8].li = getent("a8li", "targetname"); eleva.floor[8].lo = getent("a8lo", "targetname"); eleva.floor[9].ri = getent("a9ri", "targetname"); eleva.floor[9].ro = getent("a9ro", "targetname"); eleva.floor[9].li = getent("a9li", "targetname"); eleva.floor[9].lo = getent("a9lo", "targetname"); eleva.floor[10].ri = getent("a10ri", "targetname"); eleva.floor[10].ro = getent("a10ro", "targetname"); eleva.floor[10].li = getent("a10li", "targetname"); eleva.floor[10].lo = getent("a10lo", "targetname"); eleva.cab.ri = getent("acri", "targetname"); eleva.cab.ro = getent("acro", "targetname"); eleva.cab.li = getent("acli", "targetname"); eleva.cab.lo = getent("aclo", "targetname"); eleva.cab.cab = getent("acab", "targetname"); eleva.atfloor = 1; //elevator starts at first floor eleva.moving = false; //elevator not moving eleva.buttons = getentarray("buttonatrig", "targetname"); openDoor(eleva); /* opens doors, since they were mapped closed / / this is the script to turn the script_noteworthy on the buttons from the string values to their respective number values. There is probably a better way to do this / for(i=0; i < eleva.buttons.size; i++) { ent = getent(eleva.buttons[i].target, "targetname"); eleva.buttons[i] enablelinkto(); eleva.buttons[i] linkto(ent); switch (eleva.buttons[i].script_noteworthy) { case "1": eleva.buttons[i].script_noteworthy = 1; break; case "2": eleva.buttons[i].script_noteworthy = 2; break; case "3": eleva.buttons[i].script_noteworthy = 3; break; case "4": eleva.buttons[i].script_noteworthy = 4; break; case "5": eleva.buttons[i].script_noteworthy = 5; break; case "6": eleva.buttons[i].script_noteworthy = 6; break; case "7": eleva.buttons[i].script_noteworthy = 7; break; case "8": eleva.buttons[i].script_noteworthy = 8; break; case "9": eleva.buttons[i].script_noteworthy = 9; break; case "10": eleva.buttons[i].script_noteworthy = 10; break; default: eleva.buttons[i].script_noteworthy = 0; break; } eleva.buttons[i] thread buttonThink(eleva); / elevator buttons are always thinking, preparing to move the elevator. / } } buttonThink(elevator) { while(1) { self waittill("trigger"); / if elevator is not moving, at is not at the floor you're selecting then move the elevator to the selected floor. This is done by subtracting the current floor from the selected floor. For example, if you are on the first floor, and you want to go to the 4th floor, 4-1 = 3, the script knows it has to move up three floors. If you then want to go to the second floor, 2-4 = -2, it has to move down two / if ((elevator.atfloor != self.script_noteworthy) && (!elevator.moving)) { elevator.moving = true; closeDoor(elevator); direction = self.script_noteworthy - elevator.atfloor; moveCab(elevator, direction); elevator.atfloor = elevator.atfloor + direction; openDoor(elevator); elevator.moving = false; } else wait .1; } } openDoor(elevator) { elevator.floor[elevator.atfloor].ri movex(62, 1); elevator.floor[elevator.atfloor].ro movex(31, 1); elevator.floor[elevator.atfloor].li movex(-62, 1); elevator.floor[elevator.atfloor].lo movex(-31, 1); elevator.cab.ri movex(62, 1); elevator.cab.ro movex(31, 1); elevator.cab.li movex(-62, 1); elevator.cab.lo movex(-31, 1); elevator.cab.li waittill("movedone"); } closeDoor(elevator) { elevator.floor[elevator.atfloor].ri movex(-62, 1); elevator.floor[elevator.atfloor].ro movex(-31, 1); elevator.floor[elevator.atfloor].li movex(62, 1); elevator.floor[elevator.atfloor].lo movex(31, 1); elevator.cab.ri movex(-62, 1); elevator.cab.ro movex(-31, 1); elevator.cab.li movex(62, 1); elevator.cab.lo movex(31, 1); elevator.cab.li waittill("movedone"); } moveCab(elevator, direction) { if (direction < 0) { speed = direction -2; } else { speed = direction * 2; } elevator.cab.cab movez((136direction), speed, 1, 1); elevator.cab.ri movez((136direction), speed, 1, 1); elevator.cab.ro movez((136direction), speed, 1, 1); elevator.cab.li movez((136direction), speed, 1, 1); elevator.cab.lo movez((136direction), speed, 1, 1); for(i=0; i < elevator.buttons.size; i++) { ent = getent(elevator.buttons[i].target, "targetname"); ent movez((136direction), speed, 1, 1); } elevator.cab.cab waittill("movedone"); } Everything related to the elevator is all stored in the structure eleva. This makes it easier to pass the information along to the individual scripts that operate the elevator, and allow for increased flexibility with both adding new floors and adding new elevators. One important thing to notice is that this is hard coded to the size of my floors. Each one is 136 units high. The script takes the "direction" variable, which again is the intended floor minus the current floor, and multiplies that by 136 to figure the amount it will have to move. Hopefully this helps some people out. I tried to clean it up and make it as clear as possible, but I know it's some confusing code. EDIT: I just realized I posted this in the level design, not the scripting forum. It's a little of both I guess, mod's choice. Sorry. edited on Aug. 20, 2007 03:24 am by (VM)Monkey

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Category: CoD 2 Level Design Posted: Monday, Aug. 20, 2007 12:44 pm
I couldn't help but notice this command in your script eleva.buttons = getentarray("buttonatrig", "targetname"); but yet you said nothing about adding a targetname to the triggers. Am i missing something that i didn't see somewere or...?
Few tips for coding. 1. Keep the script as short as possable. 2. Don't use comments unless you HAVE to point something out. 3. Don't over complicate the script, keep it orgainized and easy to read. These help you find simple errors and makes it easy to make changes.

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Category: CoD 2 Level Design Posted: Monday, Aug. 20, 2007 12:54 pm
playername writes... Quote: I couldn't help Maybe thats not a helping request, it's a tutorial

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Category: CoD 2 Level Design Posted: Monday, Aug. 20, 2007 12:59 pm
dang you got me there
Few tips for coding. 1. Keep the script as short as possable. 2. Don't use comments unless you HAVE to point something out. 3. Don't over complicate the script, keep it orgainized and easy to read. These help you find simple errors and makes it easy to make changes.

(VM)Monkey

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Category: CoD 2 Level Design Posted: Monday, Aug. 20, 2007 03:24 pm
playername writes... Quote: I couldn't help but notice this command in your script eleva.buttons = getentarray("buttonatrig", "targetname"); but yet you said nothing about adding a targetname to the triggers. Am i missing something that i didn't see somewere or...? Sorry, I'm not a very eloquent writer at 2am, I guess. Quote: The group of button triggers to tell the elevator where to go. These are all named buttonatrig. The button triggers are all named buttonatrig. Their targets (the actual button brushes) are the ones that don't need to be named. If you look in the screenshot, you can barely see the targetname "buttonatrig", and the target of "auto10", as well as the script_noteworthy of "1".

(VM)Monkey

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Category: CoD 2 Level Design Posted: Friday, Nov. 23, 2007 03:01 pm
Sorry for digging up this old thread, but I noticed somebody else linked to it, so I needed to post an update. This script may work best for SP only (I can't verify that though). With the three elevators I had running, and an otherwise average scripted map, once more than a few people logged on in MP, the game became basically unplayable due to the amount of scripting, models, and triggers for this elevator. Anybody interested in modifying this code to work for their map is more than welcome, just be warned that it is flawed. Caveat Emptor and all that jazz.