I've heard of ppl using death planes to kill someone when they hit a falling distance or water.
How do i do this, because i haven't seen any shader symbols for it.

I think you put a trigger volume and script it to kill a player who enters.

how?

(global short plyrnum 0)
(script continuous deathbox
(begin
	(if (= (volume_test_object deathbox (list_get (players) plyrnum)) true)
		(begin
		(unit_kill (unit (list_get (players) plyrnum)))
		)
	)
)
)

(script continuous increase_plyrnum
	(begin
		(set plyrnum (+ plyrnum 1))
	)
)

(script continuous reset_plyrnum
	(if
		(= (> plyrnum 15) true)
			(begin
				(set plyrnum 0)
			)
	)
)

this basically does what the above script does, except its condensed

wat is plyrnum?

Well, that works too, but that one could have up to a half-second delay before killing a player since it counts through all the players in 16 ticks (30 ticks in a second). Even though it's not a big deal, it might be in certain cases where you really need the player to die immediately, i.e.: The kill trigger volume is just above the floor and the map has no falling damage, so if a player delays in getting killed, he'll land on the floor and then drop dead randomly soon after.

I don't know much about scripting, but shouldn't there be a way to do it in a loop, not a timer? Though it's not called a "loop", it a "script continuous " but it does the same thing.

Wait, that's what that guy did. Why would there be a delay again?
Edited by Vick Jr on Aug 20, 2008 at 03:12 PM

Because when a player gets into the trigger volume, the plyrnum (current player number being tested for) will most likely be set to a number different than the player in the trigger volume, so the plyrnum will have to be counted up until it reaches that player's number before he gets killed.
Edited by Me KS on Aug 20, 2008 at 03:19 PM

just clarifying, what exactly IS a trigger volume?
thanks guys for the help btw :)

its a trigger, when activated, it does wat ever its supposed to do

like a plane created in 3ds max that u script later?

no, a trigger point is made in sapien