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Title: Quicksand?
Post by: Clue on 19 Oct 2003, 21:40:20

 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???

Title: Re:Quicksand?
Post by: Torak on 19 Oct 2003, 22:53:21

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

Title: Re:Quicksand?
Post by: General Barron on 20 Oct 2003, 01:35:55

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.

Title: Re:Quicksand?
Post by: Roni on 20 Oct 2003, 02:11:50

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

Title: Re:Quicksand?
Post by: Clue on 20 Oct 2003, 19:05:12

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!

Title: Re:Quicksand?
Post by: Roni on 21 Oct 2003, 01:53:08

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

Title: Re:Quicksand?
Post by: Roni on 21 Oct 2003, 04:06:49

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

Title: Re:Quicksand?
Post by: Clue on 23 Oct 2003, 21:14:48

Cheers Roni,

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

Title: Re:Quicksand?
Post by: wired on 26 Oct 2003, 13:57:22

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

IT DOESNT WORK!
 :-\ :-[ :-\ :-[ :-\ :-[

Title: Re:Quicksand?
Post by: Clue on 26 Oct 2003, 16:13:13

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?

Title: Re:Quicksand?
Post by: wired on 27 Oct 2003, 15:43:39

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!

Title: Re:Quicksand?
Post by: Blanco on 28 Oct 2003, 01:19:49

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"