npc_barnacle

[fug4life]

I have made use of the banacle so that you have to use it to get to a higher place. Ive made the banacle so that you are not able to kill it, The problem is after I have used the barnacle and shot at it to release me, the tongue dosen't drop back to the set rest distance from ground. It just drops the tongue a few feet from it's body. I see the barnacle has an outputo f drop tongue, any ideas on how to trigger it once I've stopped riding it? I've tried Ondamage or OnDamaged by playersquad and
On Lostenemy but dosent seem to work...I'm gonna play around a bit more makesure it's not me. The rest distance is from the ground not the banacle itself?

[skidz]

Perhaps have a trigger for the players at the bottom that makes it drop its tongue.

[fug4life]

at work at the moment, still having a little trouble although gonna try a couple of other methods. on the floor din't seem to work, I take it It's correct to use a multi trigger rather than a trigger once. I'm testing having the player who is riding the tongue resets the tongue after he passes up through the trigger. after a short delay and then have the multi trigger reset it's self after that. I think in the end they will have to be killable and have infinte children, so the player just shoots from below until a fresh barnacle spawns and drops its tongue? I'll let you guys know if i get it working!

[fug4life]

hmm, Can't get them to drop their tongues back to set rest distance Haven't tried having them respawn yet.

[fug4life]

Ok, here's how to do it! (thanks to Mr Happy on interlopers forums)


For anyone wanting to kinda create an obstacle where you must use barnacles to get to a higher place this is what I did... I made a sort of lift shaft and I made a room half way up the shaft (this will be the level I want to reach/access). I placed the barnacles higher up the shaft. one in each corner of the ceiling, I named them each differently and then gave them each a template maker (also each named differently)

I added this output to each of the barnacles changing names where appropriate.

On Death / "barnacle1" / Kill
On Death / "barnaclemaker1" / Spawn / Delay 4 sec

And just had the template maker have a frequency of
= -1 and max alive at any one time = 1 and checked flag spawn infinite children, don't drop and fade corpse (which Is not nessercary).

So basically you ride the barnacle, shoot it to drop you down to the ledge you just went past and the tongue drops for the next players.

I'm happy again.

[DaMaN]

I'm happy again.

Yay!

[fug4life]

just been checking out your site thier are some nice tutorials of interest