Under my bullet templete I have a cog assigned to my bullet. And in this cog I have a touched message and under it I have:

victim = GetSourceRef;

PrintInt(victim);

When I shoot another person jk prints some weird number like 6667553 or something similar to that... and its really disturbing me. What am I doing wrong?

I don't know, but couldn't this be the unique thing identifier number?

what are the results you expect from PrintInt(victim);? because ints are only numbers *not 100% sure so dont pounce on me if im wrong*

if you have declared your victim as a thing, you could also use GetThingPos(victim) to get the victim's coordinates (a vector where x, y, z are distances from the origin). I don't know what you want to do exactly, so please tell us...

[This message has been edited by zagibu (edited February 16, 2002).]

Erm, it's GetSourceRef() and not GetSourceRef. The perens indicate that it's a function. The way you wrote it, the engine thinks it's a variable, and is probably printing garbage.

BUT if you actually did include the perens in the cog and this is just a typo, then I believe touched: message is only called when one of the colliding things is the player.

And Bath Wader: there are only three numerical variable types in CogScript: int, flex and vector. Thing, sector and surface are all aliases for ints - they were included just to make cogs more legible.

FarDreamer... you legend. Thankyou very much!

(I missed the brackets)

Whoops!

You're welcome

But I'm curious: does it work now?

Yup, works now.

I think that if mask flags are not used, only actors and players can trigger the touched message. But if mask flags are used, the masked things - and not just actors and players - will trigger the touched message.

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