Objective gameplay problem..

[drm_wayne]

Im trying to get objective based singleplayer to work, the level exit is blocked by a
func_episodewall and should go away when the player found at least 6 objectives...

but for some reasons this didnt work...
Can anybody help?

in my custom defs2 there is

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float currentobjs;


The pickup:

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void() OBJ_Pickup =
{   
   currentobjs = currentobjs + 1;  // adds one Objective
   sprint(other, "You collected ");
   sprint(other, "a Ojective!\n");
   sound(other, CHAN_AUTO, "pickup_medikit.wav", 1, ATTN_NORM);
   stuffcmd (other, "bf\n");
   remove(self);
};

void() obj_book =
{
   Precache_Set ("progs/pickups/book.mdl");
   self.netname = "OBJ_Book";
   self.touch   = player_touch;
   self.th_action = OBJ_Pickup;
   self.solid = SOLID_BBOX;
    setsize(self, '-11 -11 0', '11 11 55');
};


an the func_episodewall:

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void() func_episodewall =
{
   
   setmodel (self, self.model);
   self.angles = '0 0 0';
   self.solid = SOLID_BSP;
   self.movetype = #MOVETYPE_PUSH;

  if (currentobjs = currentobjs == 6) // if we have found 6 of them
   remove(self);                         // go away...
};


[Spike]

tbh, just have your pickups trigger some trigger_counter. and have the trigger_counter killtarget some func_wall.

conditions inside spawnfunctions other than to check the fields the mapper specified are generally pointless. anything that checks other entities inside the spawn function itself is stupid, as the entities that it refers to are not always going to have been spawned yet.
what your code is trying to do is check to see if the player has grabbed any items before any players are even on the map. and ONLY before there are players on the map. you'd need a think function... or you can just use the trigger mechanism that I already mentioned.

[frag.machine]

+1 to the trigger_count approach.

[drm_wayne]

im adding a thinkfunction...

I dont have triggers in the game (only a trigger_command for fog) because everything is coded from scratch, the qc doesnt have anything from the old quake qc

[gnounc]

I dont have triggers in the game

I believe Spike meant this:

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       currentobjs = currentobjs + 1;  // adds one Objective


which you were doing already.

and he suggested you move

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  if (currentobjs = currentobjs == 6) // if we have found 6 of them
   remove(self);   


from func_episodewall's spawning function

to void() OBJ_Pickup()

changing where it says self of course, to accurately point to the func_wall.




though I WOULD like to ask about:

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  if (currentobjs = currentobjs == 6) // if we have found 6 of them


is that assignment intentional?
I'm doubting it is.

-best of luck.

[ceriux]

i dont think you could do it that way anyways could you? wouldnt it be if (currentobj == x) ?

[Ghost_Fang]

Your func_episodewall is only checking to see if currentobjs is 6 upon spawning.
Give it a think:

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void() CheckObjectives =
{
  if (currentobjs = currentobjs == 6)
   remove(self);                       
  self.think = CheckObjectives;
  self.nextthink = time + 0.1;          //Check once a frame
};

void() func_episodewall =
{
   
   setmodel (self, self.model);
   self.angles = '0 0 0';
   self.solid = SOLID_BSP;
   self.movetype = #MOVETYPE_PUSH;
   self.think = CheckObjecttives;
   self.nextthink = time + 0.1;

};