This cog makes it so that when the player enters a sector, all three walls and a fake door explode in a hallway, and rock is revealed.

I got this to work w/o a timer, but it crashed the game. I'm positive everything else works, as before the game crashed I saw and heard explosions and the walls disappeared.

I looked at the XTANK cog, and saw they had the same bug and fixed it with the TimerEx command, but I really can't figure that command out, and am thus requesting help.

Previously, the Create Explosions, and DestroyThings were right under the If statement in the entered message.



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[This message has been edited by Lord_Grismath (edited October 27, 2001).]

I see your problem. Your symbols only list 4 objects, but you adress 5 in the code. Try adding 'thing wall4' to your symbols...

 

Simple enough...



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Yeah, destroying a thing that isn't there = bad.

Bye bye player

Nope.

The game crashes, and I don't even get a chance to see the explosions.

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Lord Tiberius Grismath
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Whoops. I forgot to delete the fourth wall in teh DestroyThings. It works now. Thank you so much!

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[edit] I am amazed that it worked because there's a lot more wrong with that cog:

1) Delete that slash after the template declaration.

2) The SetTimerEx() command should be: SetTimerEx(delay, timerID, flex param0, flex param1);

3) You don't need to kill that timer. It only runs once unlike a pulse.

4) You don't need to be checking the senderref of the sector since you only define one sector.

5) You don't even need to use a timer. I don't see why it would make any difference.

I'm pretty sure there is no bug with xtank's cog. They used a timer so the player could run away before it blew.

7) Once your cog runs, the player might reenter the sector and that would of course be a fiery crash :-) Do something like:

entered:
if(hasrun) Return;
hasrun=1;

8) If you don't define the fourth wall, then you can't create anything at it's position.

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Fix those errors and your cog will run a lot better.

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[This message has been edited by SaberMaster (edited October 29, 2001).]

heres the best and simplest way, and guaranteed to work

symbols
message entered
sector trigga
thing wall1
thing wall2
thing wall3
thing wall4
thing extra
flex delay
template explosion=+xtank1_exp local
end
code
entered:
if(getsenderref() != trigga) return;
if(p == 1) return;
p = 1;
sleep(delay);
CreateThing(explosion, wall1);
CreateThing(explosion, wall2);
CreateThing(explosion, wall3);
CreateThing(explosion, wall4);
CreateThing(explosion, extra);
DestroyThing(wall1);
DestroyThing(wall2);
DestroyThing(wall3);
DestroyThing(wall4);
DestroyThing(extra);
return;
end

[This message has been edited by Strike1337 (edited October 29, 2001).]

Why are you still typing all that , he's fixed the problem.

oh, didnt see that message where he said it works, hehe. i was bored anyway, gives me something to do

Yeah, he "fixed" it, but that cog needed some work.

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[This message has been edited by Hideki (edited October 31, 2001).]