Could someone please tell me what is wrong with this? What's supposed to happen is that when you shoot at something (item), its flags change so that it becomes magsealed. In effect "activating shields". Please help!

This is what I wrote:
symbols

message damaged

thing item

end
#==========================================
code

damaged:

SetThingFlags(item,0x4);
return;

end

You'll have to use something like

item = GetSenderRef();

I don't think an item gets damaged , so the message never gets called .... try another message type ...

Damaged message may work. The JK specs states: "Damaged : Sent by a surface or thing when hit by a weapon." How else do you blow up those barrels?

But add the thing Boba Rhett gave. Put it as the first line after Damaged:



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Barrels are collide 3 , in other words they are shootable , the bullet will hit it , while a item , the bullet would go straight through it .... also a item doesn't have a health status.

Ok I see some confusion. I didn't know that there was something actually called an item in JK. This was just a word to illustrate the point. The "item in question is a "thing", even an actor.