Touch-triggers?

Sir Tobbii · **Joined:** Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:15 pm **Posts:** 9

Hey there, I've been trying to get the camera thing I wrote about in my previous thread. I've managed to make alot of progress thanks to XPac_27's camera mod (viewtopic.php?f=56&t=19050&hilit=camera).

However, to make it all working I need to fix my triggers correctly. As of now, the view changes as it should, but it changes between the normal and my fixed view constantly. (because of me using a trigger_multiple)

To fix this I tried to use a Trigger_touch, but then it did nothing. Can anyone possibily help me?

Jack Rammsdell · **Posted:** Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:44 pm

Use a trigger_once instead of touch or you can add a value to to the trigger_multi that limits to how many times it can be activated, or at least the time between the next available retrigger could be infinite. I do not have doom 3 readily available for me to look and see.

Sir Tobbii · **Joined:** Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:15 pm **Posts:** 9

Doesn't really help, the problem right now is that if I do that then I can't go back to the same place I was before, since the camera can only be set once (if I use a trigger_once). And if I put a timer on it, it just keeps on going back and forth between Third-person and the Camera view.

6th Venom · **Posted:** Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:06 pm

set a key/val to the player, something like "cam" "1", and make your trigger_multiple run a script that just check if "cam" different than "1", set the camera and "cam" to "1", else do nothing.
Each trigger will set a different value to "cam" for a different camera. This should work.

Sir Tobbii · **Joined:** Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:15 pm **Posts:** 9

Right. I'll try, just hope that I understood exactly what you meant.

info_player_start now got a Key called "Cam" with Value "1"
same thing with Camera_view_1
Camera_view_2 got Value 2
and trigger got a key called "Call" with Value "Cam"
Have I done something right. (sorry, I know I'm not that good as this techincal stuff, I've only done maps and textures before.)

6th Venom · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:59 am

Sir Tobbii wrote:

info_player_start now got a Key called "Cam" with Value "1"
same thing with Camera_view_1
Camera_view_2 got Value 2
and trigger got a key called "Call" with Value "Cam"

Not really that.

but i'll try to explain a similar method i'm thinking about:
- Make a Key "on" with a "0" value on all your cameras.
- Make a Key "call" with a "set_camera1" value on your camera1, a "set_camera2" value on your camera2, etc.
- Create a txt file next to your custom map, and rename it to mycustommapname.script (where mycustommapname is your map's name of course)
- Edit it with notepad and paste this:

Code:

//   Set camera 1 on
void set_camera1()
{
   if ( $Camera_view_1.getFloatKey ("on") == 0) { // check if the camera1 is not already "on", if not, proceed.
          sys.trigger ($Camera_view_1); // trigger your camera1
          $Camera_view_1.setKey("on", "1"); // set it "on"
          $Camera_view_2.setKey("on", "0"); // set camera2 not "on"
          $Camera_view_3.setKey("on", "0"); // set camera3 not "on"
          // etc, for all your cameras
   }
}

//   Set camera 2 on
void set_camera2()
{
   if ( $Camera_view_2.getFloatKey ("on") == 0) { // check if the camera2 is not already "on", if not, proceed.
          sys.trigger ($Camera_view_2); // trigger your camera2
          $Camera_view_2.setKey("on", "1"); // set it "on"
          $Camera_view_1.setKey("on", "0"); // set camera1 not "on"
          $Camera_view_3.setKey("on", "0"); // set camera3 not "on"
          // etc, for all your cameras
   }
}

//   Set camera 3 on
void set_camera3()
{
   if ( $Camera_view_3.getFloatKey ("on") == 0) { // check if the camera3 is not already "on", if not, proceed.
          sys.trigger ($Camera_view_3); // trigger your camera3
          $Camera_view_3.setKey("on", "1"); // set it "on"
          $Camera_view_1.setKey("on", "0"); // set camera1 not "on"
          $Camera_view_2.setKey("on", "0"); // set camera2 not "on"
          // etc, for all your cameras
   }
}

//   Main is the script executed when your map start.
void main()
{
}

This should do the job. maybe there are some more complex methods to only write 1 thread for every cameras, but i'm a beginner scripter.

Sir Tobbii · **Joined:** Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:15 pm **Posts:** 9

It works perfect! Thank you so much!

I'll be sure to give you special thanks when we show our mod (should be soon enough) the first time.

6th Venom · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:07 pm

Sir Tobbii wrote:

It works perfect! Thank you so much!

Glad it worked! good luck! :wink:

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