DarkZelot, would you like to help with the Banjo tooie mod i'm doing?

It's still not working. I tried a gear box sound, here is the exact script:

(script startup music
(begin
(sound_impulse_predict "sound\music\halodos" 1)
(sleep_until (volume_test_objects music (players)) 15)
(sound_impulse_start "sound\music\halodos" none 1)

))


I made sure the trig. vol. is big, doesn't touch anything and has a matching name to the script.

It doesn't matter if it's touching anything or what size it is.

By "not working", do you mean that the script doesn't compile, or that you don't see any results in-game?

It compiles, saves and builds the cache just fine.
I've just played with it and almost got a result. about 1 out of 9 times I restart the map it plays the middle of the song at a random time, then stops before the end.

That's probably something to do with the sound_looping tag for whatever sound you're using, not the script.

Make sure that in that tag, "not a loop" at the top is unchecked. If it starts and then stops in what seems like the "middle" of the song, then under "Tracks", you need to specify a sound tag for "start" and "end".
Edited by Me KS on Apr 14, 2008 at 05:57 PM

The script does work, I just tried it using one of my H3 sounds, and it works fine.

On a side note, how do you split up a song into multiple parts like the default ones, AKA, lp1, lp2...?

Create the sound tag before you compile the source sound file with Tool. At the top of the sound tag, check the box that says "split long sound into permutations". When you compile the tag, it will be split into multiple permutations instead of just one. If you already compiled the sound tag, then just re-compile with that checked. No values will be lost.

I'm not sure why that's needed, but I do recall that trying to use a sound tag with one long permutation, it wouldn't play through the whole sound, so it's needed.

so... I need a sound tag and a .looping tag but the .loop tag has to say "is not a loop"? they don't include that in the tutorials. thank you.

EDIT:
What? there are sepret commands for the .sound and the .looping_sound, and the .sound dosn't have a "not a loop" option.
Edited by yukonmuffin on Apr 14, 2008 at 08:24 PM

No problem, but what I said was this:



Edit: Oh wait a minute, no I'm wrong, sorry. The script refers to a sound tag, not a sound_looping tag. In that case, you don't need a sound_looping tag. So, the only thing I can think of is that something is wrong in your sound tag.
Edited by Me KS on Apr 14, 2008 at 08:26 PM

quick answer lol

Ugh, two of my sound tags are giving me an exception. :\

Did you put the scripts in the data folder?

is it a peli drop off or pick up?

i think for vehicles its always a script and for pickups it needs a script.
but for dropoffs like on b30 when ur on the peli its a recorded animation

well thats what i heard

it should be in the directory as the same as the scenario.
eg. my map is called launch directory for scenario and bsp is tags/levels/test/launch
then i should put the script in the following directory:
data/levels/test/launch/scripts.

u do the same thing if the directory isnt in the test folder.

Is it possible to end an Objective when reached a cut scene or killed a certain encounter?

How do I make a certain character talk? I do (sound_impulse_start sound\dialog\marines\fitzgerald\conditional\combat2\groupcomm\alertfriend none 1). But if the certain character is dead, the sound will come from nowhere. How do I make a character talk and move their lips?

Use a script like this:
sound_impulse_start sound\dialog\marines\fitzgerald\conditional\combat2\groupcomm\alertfriend (unit (list_get (players) #)) 1

It would make the character move their lips, or mouths, if they have a talking animation.

mega bump...

is there a function that controls a biped's invisibility?

OK I have made a small programme that will make the scripts for you to do this like the pelicains in coldsnap.

If you need a tut on how to set them up I will make one for you.

You cvan download the programme at http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=2889

take a ground vehicle to the lading pad and move it right under the back of pelican.
get into the pilots seat of the pelicain and as soon as you do that press q

you should have that vehicle attached to the pelicain

(cheat_active_camouflage)
It doesn't turn off.

I need a script for a map Im working on.

Ok basically, I have a motorbike with folded up wings on its sides, and a motorbike with its wings unfolded and spread like a plane's.

Now, I wanted to know if I could get a script so that the driver of the first can press a bound key, and by doing so, his vehicle changes to the second vehicle, while an animation is played so it doesnt look like the wings fold out of nowhere.

Assuming the first vehicle is called bike1 and the second is plane1, while the animation is just called animation1, how could I go about making this?

Thanks in advance.


Works with warthogs,scorpions and ghosts - so yes.
Edited by k9colin on Jun 29, 2008 at 01:33 PM

Im working on a Single Player map

Does anyone know a script or something like this:

Once you reach a trigger volume, you will have and objective to do
the objective will be complete once you killed a certain encounter, or reached a cutscene
Edited by megahalofan12 on Jun 29, 2008 at 05:34 PM

Great to know?

What does the ai_follow_target_players do? I use (ai_follow_target_players spartans) to try to make Spartan AI follow me around, but they don't move. How do I get it to work?

That command doesn't work.

Hm. I noticed that it was used a lot in the campaign scripts, and usually as a static script. Are you sure that it doesn't need to be... phrased a certain way (I'm not sure how to put that) so that it does work?

How do you make a static script? And what's it look like when used in the campaign?

Most of the time, I use a static script to set it so that I can refer to the player as a unit (like if I want to start off in a vehicle, for instance). It would look like this:

(script static "unit" player0
(unit (list_get (players) 0))
)

Some of the battle scenes in the campaign were static scripts as well, as well as most of the cutscenes. Here's one, from b40:


(script static "void" pelican
(object_create insertion_pelican )
(object_teleport insertion_pelican insertion_pelican_1 )
(recording_play insertion_pelican insertion_pelican_in )
(sleep (recording_time insertion_pelican ))
(unit_enter_vehicle (player0 )insertion_pelican "p-riderlf" )
(unit_enter_vehicle (player1 )insertion_pelican "p-riderrf" )
(vehicle_hover insertion_pelican true )
(unit_exit_vehicle (player0 ))
(unit_exit_vehicle (player1 ))
(cinematic_stop )
(show_hud true )
(sleep 30 )
(vehicle_unload insertion_pelican "rider" )
(sleep 120 )
(vehicle_hover insertion_pelican false )(recording_play_and_delete insertion_pelican insertion_pelican_out ))

That one is part of the first cutscene. The speech and crap is in another static script.

Is there a script that would allow me to open the longsword hatch with Q, along with some other vehicles...

(script continuous longsword_hatch
	(if
		(= (unit_get_current_flashlight_state "longsword name") 1)
		(unit_open "longsword name")
		(unit_close "longsword name")
	)
)

There you go. Right now it constantly hammers the opening and closing commands into the game because I didn't bother with a variable, but it would work right anyways since I think vehicle flashlight states sync properly.

So does that make it open if a player is in the vehicle? Or if you press flashlight anywhere, it opens up? Also the longsword would then need opening and closing animations

The longsword already has those animations.

And yeah, I'm not sure how that would have worked out, so I revised it to make sure it only checks the flashlight if someone's in the driver's seat:

(global boolean driver_in 0)

(script continuous longsword_hatch
	(if
		(= (vehicle_test_seat_list "longsword name" "W-driver" (players)) 1)
		(begin
			(if
				(= (unit_get_current_flashlight_state "longsword name") 1)
				(unit_open "longsword name")
				(unit_close "longsword name")
			)
			(set driver_in 1)
		)
		(if
			(= driver_in 1)
			(begin
				(unit_set_desired_flashlight_state "longsword name" 0)
				(set driver_in 0)
			)
		)
	)
)

weird i thot u could do that with kornman and tag it to that but its not an option... btw DarkZealot, if u'd like u can join my xfire clan, MTA5, I'm a pretty good scripter but uv go better skils than me, u could be head scripter xD

Well, you could just make a function in the longsword's vehicle tag that reads its flashlight state, and then have animation objects play the open and close animations based on that function in the animations tag. I think that's a better option, but he asked for a script.
Edited by Me KS on Nov 7, 2008 at 09:05 PM