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714 · Post by **714** » Sat May 22, 2004 10:06 pm

how can i make it where an object harms a player without shooting him/her/it?

My Liver Hurtz · Post by **My Liver Hurtz** » Sat May 22, 2004 10:14 pm

Use "#take health 10" whenever you want your object to hurt the player. Obviously, 10 can be replaced with any integer you want (though I'm not sure about negative?)

714 · Post by **714** » Sat May 22, 2004 10:23 pm

i was about to post nevermind....because i just now remembered that! i have another question though: i want to create an explosion effect similar to the bomb one, but if i change the object into a bomb, it wont look like the object im trying to blow up(which i will tell you is part of a spaceship in a secret part of my Alcatraz game). so do you know another way to make it have a similar but instant effect, or make the bomb not look like a bomb(hidden?)?

superbowl shuffle · Post by **superbowl shuffle** » Sat May 22, 2004 11:09 pm

It would be easier if the player cannot go near the object that explodes. Can it?

My Liver Hurtz · Post by **My Liver Hurtz** » Sun May 23, 2004 1:36 am

Wexenhex wrote:i was about to post nevermind....because i just now remembered that! i have another question though: i want to create an explosion effect similar to the bomb one, but if i change the object into a bomb, it wont look like the object im trying to blow up(which i will tell you is part of a spaceship in a secret part of my Alcatraz game). so do you know another way to make it have a similar but instant effect, or make the bomb not look like a bomb(hidden?)?

Go to STK bombs, get a black one. You can change it's cycle to make it explode faster or slower. If you use an external editor, you can also change how many seconds are left before it explodes. However, This is pinned to a speicifc time for explosion. To my knowledge there is no way for an object to just explode like a bomb upon a command without extensive duplicator/clone stuff like in the encyclopedia.

The most common effect for an object exploding would be #putting a red slime. It is your best bet for, say, when an object dies.

Commodore · Post by **Commodore** » Sun May 23, 2004 10:35 am

also if you want an object to hurt the player when they are next to each other use something like this:

:loop
#if contact #take health 10 #endgame
/i
#loop

as for explosions, slimes or black on black bombs. Kevedit can help you customise a bomb's cycle and wait time but using ctrl-t (i think)

Ryan Ferneau · Post by **Ryan Ferneau** » Sun May 23, 2004 2:03 pm

You could use #take health 10, but it won't put "Ouch!" on the bottom of the screen, play the hurt noise, or make the player's background flash. I suppose you could simulate the first two, but I don't think there's any way for an object to make the player flash without actually zapping the player with a bullet or something. That's why whenever I have an object that can only hurt the player on contact, I'll just use #shoot seek to make it more "realistic", since you never see the bullet anyway!

My Liver Hurtz wrote:Go to STK bombs, get a black one. You can change it's cycle to make it explode faster or slower. If you use an external editor, you can also change how many seconds are left before it explodes.

Wait, I thought it was the other way around. Like, you could easily get a bomb ticking at any number in an STK board, but you would want an external editor to tamper with its cycle. (I've seen STK boards with various cycle objects, but there's not enough room to fit 255 versions of all the colors of one thing in there.)

My Liver Hurtz · Post by **My Liver Hurtz** » Wed May 26, 2004 8:04 pm

By Joe, you're right...

519 · Post by **519** » Thu May 27, 2004 2:49 pm

"I'll just use #shoot seek to make it more "realistic", since you never see the bullet anyway! "

Why the hell didn't I think of this in the beginning?

718 · Post by **718** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 6:53 am

i used to use #put rnd boulder and loop it like five times and then change the boulders into something colourful and boom

exokostion

718 · Post by **718** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 6:57 am

i used to use #put rnd boulder and loop it like five times and then change the boulders into something colourful and boom

exokostion :fsfunky:

Ryan Ferneau · Post by **Ryan Ferneau** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 5:08 am

Extokostopostitoshtion... with an emoticon!

Mooseka · Post by **Mooseka** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 5:28 am

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