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2004-04-22, 8:16 PM #1

yodason45

Native American

Posts: 240

I want to make a thing appear when a switch is pressed.And I want to make walls to close in on the player(like the garbage masher) automacticly.Need help.

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2004-04-22, 11:40 PM #2

lucky_jackpot

Emoticon seizure in progress

Posts: 788

Hi there

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Just so as you know, you can't physically "move" the walls - only simulate it by moving wall-shaped 3DOs [http://forums.massassi.net/html/redface.gif]

That is - unless you're willing to cut up *a lot* of sectors and gradually make all the adjoins visible - think of sectors outwards coming in (similar to how you get "rising" water in some of the JK & MotS puzzles...

Those are my suggestions - personally, to improve framerate, I wouldn't advise the latter method - moving 2 wall 3DOs would probably be th best idea...

As for the thing appearing when a switch is pressed - there's something similar in the Massassi public COG archives - something like "AI_behind_you" or something similar - that only requires a quick, marginal re-write for different template support, and an "activated" message... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

I'm at work right now, so I can't drum up and test both cogs for you *now*, but I should be able to once I get home - that is unless Slaw beats me to it [http://forums.massassi.net/html/rolleyes.gif]

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- *throws it in Slaw's direction* - t'is all yours if you want it, Slaw [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

-Jackpot

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2004-04-23, 3:35 AM #3

GBK

Posts: 10,562

Code:

# Simple cog to create an object 
# at a specified postion, 
# at the flick of a switch
#
# 04/2004 gbk
Symbols
	Message Activated
	Surface Switch
	Thing Ghost
	Template Type
	Int I=0		Local
End
Code
	Activated:
		If(!I) //Comment out this line to create multiples
		CreateThing(Type, Ghost);
	Stop;
End

The whole wall smashing thing aint as easy. It can be done, itjust requires alot of non-cog work. 3d0s and whatnot. Its very scary.

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