Ok, so I have added a life counting system to my map, much like the one in solitude-firefight, but better. After doing this, my map starts up the first time without loading the life system properly, and it sets my lives to 1 for some reason (so, when I die, the out-of-lives cutscene begins).
The second time (and times after that) I load the map, the lives system loads properly, but then parts of my map startup script don't run. WTF is going on???

Here's a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25O1V7A27qg

Thanks guys.


EDIT: If anyone wants to see the scripts, PM or Xfire me.
Edited by MoooseGuy on Oct 20, 2010 at 03:11 PM

Send me the script. Just the portion for the lives, don't need to see all the rest.

Who wrote these? The formatting is making me sad :[

One thing. If the player has deathless player on, then it would be easy for you to just use:

(sleep_until (= (unit_get_health player) 0) 15)

rather than doing <= 0.01 as you are now.

Second, the death cutscene is extremely inefficient. For every second, you're continuously invoking the death cutscene command, which wouldn't play until lives = 0. What's an O(1) exercise suddenly becomes an O(n) exercise. Just make it a dormant, and use the (wake death_cutscene) command when you want to play it, when lives = 0. Speaking of which...

Your title display script is also extremely inefficient. It's a continuous which plays everything in order. What you have right now, is:

if lives = 5, then display the title, and sleep until lives = 4. Then check again, and see if lives = 4. If yes, display the title. Again, an O(n) exercise becomes O(n^2), because you have to check it twice.

What you should do instead:

(script continuous lives
    (if
        (>= lives 0)
        (begin
            (if 
                (= lives 11)
                (cinematic_set_title livesmax)
            )
            (if 
                (= lives 10)
                (cinematic_set_title lives9)
            )
            (if 
                (= lives 9)
                (cinematic_set_title lives8)
            )
            (if 
                (= lives 8)
                (cinematic_set_title lives7)
            )
            (if 
                (= lives 7)
                (cinematic_set_title lives6)
            )
            (if 
                (= lives 6)
                (cinematic_set_title lives5)
            )
            (if 
                (= lives 5)
                (cinematic_set_title lives4)
            )
            (if 
                (= lives 4)
                (cinematic_set_title lives3)
            )
            (if 
                (= lives 3)
                (cinematic_set_title lives2)
            )
            (if 
                (= lives 2)
                (cinematic_set_title lives1)
            )
            (if 
                (= lives 1)
                (cinematic_set_title lives0)
            )
        )
        (wake death_cutscene)
    )
)

Once you finish adding in this optimization code, one of the prerequisites for it to run is that lives >= 0, and the first cutscene title would be displayed by lives = 11. Your old script would check that lives = 11 as well. However, a quick scroll to the top of the script reveals that lives = 10. Change that to 11, and you're set.

List of things to do:

• Use my optimization script


• At the very beginning of the script, set (cheat_deathless_player true)


• At the very top of the lives and cutscenes.hsc, set lives = 11


• Change death_cutscene to a dormant script, and remove the check for whether no_lives = true.

Edited by Gamma927 on Oct 20, 2010 at 07:25 PM

No worries. The original made my notepad freeze :|

Alright, I'll try this out when my computer starts working again.
Thanks for the help!
Oh, and btw, all the ugly code was hand-done by me, that's why it's so ugly. XD
Edited by MoooseGuy on Oct 22, 2010 at 02:11 AM