Interesting adventures in scripting

[mortis]

My bugfix script for snatch2 has taken script mangling to a whole new level. I had delete a bad Team Wolf Objective and and 12 bad spawns, then spawn in a new TWO and new spawns, give them an on/off routine, adjust the autospawns and fix other bugs while I was at it. Full script is found here if you'd like to read along at home.

To remove entities, your must know their x y z coordinates. The script routine to remove them is very simple:

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		delete
		{

			origin "-864 -1966 318"	
	
		}

Then rinse and repeat for until all offending entities are removed, in the case of snatch2, that meant removing 13 entities. Any references to removed entities must be commented out! If you do not do so, Wolfy may completely freak out when those entities are called on!

New entities are added normally:

For the TWO

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		create
		{
			scriptName "snatchhq_obj"
			classname "team_WOLF_objective"
			targetname "snatchhq_obj"
			origin "-824 -1966 318"	// z = CC_FILTER_ALLIES(2) | CC_FILTER_SPAWNS(4)
			spawnflags 2	// TEAM_ALLIES(2)
		}

and for the spawns

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		create
		{
			scriptName "snatchhq_spawn1"
			classname "team_CTF_bluespawn"
			targetname "snatchhq_spawn"
			origin "-896 -1792 198"
			spawnflags 2	// TEAM_ALLIES
		}

I thieved bani's fueldump on/off/spawn routines...adjusted for my TWO and spawns, of course.

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snatchhq_obj
{
	spawn
	{
		set
		{
			//these have to be set inside the spawn{} function, not create{}
			description "Forest House Spawn"
			message "Forest House Spawn"
		}
		wait 50
		setstate snatchhq_obj invisible
		setstate snatchhq_spawn invisible

	}

	trigger on
	{               
		setstate snatchhq_obj default
		setstate snatchhq_spawn default
	}

	trigger off
	{
		setstate snatchhq_obj invisible
		setstate snatchhq_spawn invisible
	}
}

Activated / disabled it at CP features routines ( trigger disable_allied_features and trigger enable_allied_features):

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	// mortis
	wait 50
	trigger snatchhq_obj on
	wm_announce "The Allied Forest House Spawn has been enabled!"

and

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	wait 50
	trigger snatchhq_obj off
	wm_announce "The Allied Forest House Spawn has been disabled!"

And that's all folks. 22 mangled entities right before your very eyes.

[deej]

Dumb question probably but what is TWO?

[=FF=im2good4u]

nice job btw he means a Team_WOLF_Objective (its kinda a selecable spawn point)

[ReyalP]

FWIW, delete should work on the following keys:

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scriptname
classname
targetname
origin

You should even be able to combine them e.g.

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delete 
{
 classname "team_CTF_bluespawn"
 targetname "foobarspawns"
}

That means delete all the team_CTF_bluespawn entities with targetname "foobarspawns"

[mortis]

I tried using multiple keys, but I got a bunch of errors.

[mortis]

deleting by targetname seems to work okay:

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		//mortis delete health ammo toi
		delete
		{

			targetname "south_hacabinet_toi"	
	
		}

		delete
		{

			targetname "north_hacabinet_toi"	
	
		}

It removed those TOIs flawlessly.

[nUllSkillZ]

Nice find.

If there's a scriptname entities can be "removed".
Example from "goldrush_lms.script":

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tankdepot_axis_spawns
{
	spawn
	{
		remove
	}
}

Not sure about the following:

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kill            <targetname> 

[nUllSkillZ]

Entities can not only be created in the game_manager/spawn-event but also in an entity_scriptname/spawn-event.

[edit]
Seems not to work with all entites.

Tested so far:
Not working with "info_train_spline_main".
Working with "team_WOLF_checkpoint".
[/edit]

[nUllSkillZ]

Is there a possibility to set scriptnames for entites without one?
If not it seems to be the only missing feature.

[ReyalP]

Is there a possibility to set scriptnames for entites without one?
If not it seems to be the only missing feature.

You may be able to remove the entity (as described above) and create a new one. Otherwise, you cannot, AFAIK.