Quick Teleporter

First of all there is a resource that has been around for some time click here. I have never used it, so I do not know how it works.

Also I have been working on a generic trigger call teleporter, it should be a cheap way to achieve similar results. This will not show fancy particle emitter or lights. You can add it on top of this later

This particular trigger assumes that you will have a single dynamic field that will contain the coordinates.

First of all go to your server directory server/scripts/triggers.cs and add this code at the end of the file:

datablock TriggerData(Teleporter)
{
   tickPeriodMS = 100; 
};

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
function Teleporter::onEnterTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj)
{
   echo("Teleporter::onEnterTrigger --IN");
   Parent::onEnterTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj);
   
   // Print out some debug info ;)
   // Get the number of dynamic field in the trigger
   echo("# Of Indx : " @ %trigger.getDynamicFieldCount());
   // in my case I just have one so I use the first index
   echo("Index 0   : " @ %trigger.getDynamicField(0));
   
   // here is where we do the real work
   %str = %trigger.getDynamicField(0);
   // it should remove the name of the dynamic field and leave the coordinates
   %coords = removeField(%str, 0);
   
   // for educational purposes print out the string and the coordinates
   echo("The String   : " @ %str);
   echo("Coordinates  : " @ %coords);
   
   // this transform will take you to the place that you want!!
   %obj.setTransform(%coords);
}
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

function Teleporter::onLeaveTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj)
{
   Parent::onLeaveTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj);
}

function Teleporter::onTickTrigger(%this,%trigger)
{
   
   Parent::onTickTrigger(%this,%trigger);
}

The trigger should look like this on your *.mis file where coord is the dynamic data field

new Trigger(TestTrigger) {
      canSaveDynamicFields = "1";
      position = "647.288 -1344.81 112.729";
      rotation = "1 0 0 0";
      scale = "1 1 1";
      dataBlock = "Teleporter";
      polyhedron = "0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 -1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000";
         coord = "-9 -1414 50 0 0 1 0";
   };

Hope it helps

Juanma

Edited on Aug 30, 2007 11:30

Terrain Problem

I have been working on a project where our main level is an island, I had problems before with the water block: when I looked beyond (-1024, -1024, 0, 0) the water block would disappear. I solved this by translating all my mission objects (4096 4096 0 0) this means I put all my objects on the terrain kitty-corner from the original one.

I am almost done with the map, but I want to use the terrain editor or texture painter and it would not do anything because the terrain editable area is still where my initial mission was. I only get a blue brush and can't edit the terrain :(

How do I move the Green box to my side of the map?