Quicksand?

[Clue]

 Could this be possible? An area of ground where the player would be slowly dragged down to his death while his comrades watched helplessly! A minefield to the north... patches of quicksand to the south... which way do you go???

[Torak]

Well, how about using something based on the Hide Body script?

[General Barron]

It could be done in a script using a looping "setpos" command to slowly lower the unit below the ground. After he is far enough under ground, you could deletevehicle him or kill him.

[Roni]

Piece of cake !

I've written a short script that allows players to "dig in".  The script simply plays an animation and a sound then progressively lowers the player until he is .35m below ground.  When it's finished only your head and rifle stick out above ground - very handy for snipers !   ;D :gunman:

I'll be posting the script soon as part of a packet of new scripts - feel free to take it and modify to your heart's content.



Roni

[Clue]

Scripting is not one of my strong points... but it's good to see that it may be possible.
Looking forward to that script pack Roni, the only way to learn is to look at someone else's work!

[Roni]

I'm no gun scripter myself  :-\   Like lots of things it looks like all you need is practice, practice and practice . . .

I first learned to prgramme back on my old Commodore 64 (and before that - my brother's Trash 80 !).  I've picked up some VB since then but the hardest thing about scripting is just learning what does what.  

I'll put together a quicksand script tonight (Aussie time) and post it here.  Watch this space !



Roni

[Roni]

Hi Clue

Here you go - quicker than I expected !

The attached script should work a charm.  If you want to give the poor suckers a chance to get out then you will have to modify it a bit.

On the plus side - this is my first script post !


Roni

[Clue]

Cheers Roni,

 I'll check it out this weekend (British time). Looking forward to seeing them sink! ;D

[wired]

er, no offence or out but......

IT DOESNT WORK!
 :-\ :-\ :-\

[Clue]

I can't get it to work either...

 I make my trigger and send one of my men forward into the danger zone. When he reaches the trigger a message comes up: error setpos :type Bool, expected object

and then after a few seconds the message:
error getdammage type Bool, expected object
appears!

Any ideas?

[wired]

same happens wid me! all that happens apart from that is a hint saying "Quicksand!" and "YOUR DROWNING!"..........
Yer Right!

Perhaps sum1 can edit it an make it work?

nice try roni but there's one massiv bug in it....u dont sink!

  :noo: :noo: :noo:
    NO!   NO!   NO!

[Blanco]

Didn't try it yet, but

_victim =_this select 1

is it not

_victim = _this select 0

??

and then the unitname as a parameter,

[unitname] exec "quicksand.sqs"