conveyor belt help

[Nekoneko]

Hey, I need help on a conveyor belt type script.
I have script_brushmodels in my map named stream_0 .... stream_12, since i was going to put it in water, making it a stream.

the code:

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main{
streament=[];
	while(isdefined(getent("stream_"+streament.size,"targetname")))
	{
		streament[streament.size]=getent("stream_"+streament.size,"targetname");
	}
	for(i=0;i<streament.size-1;i++){streament[i] thread stream(streament[i+1],streament[0].origin,streament[streament.size-1].origin);}
	streament[streament.size-1] thread stream(streament[0],streament[0].origin,streament[streament.size-1].origin);
}

stream(nextent,start,end)
{
while(1){
while(self.origin!=end){self moveto(nextent.origin,0.5);wait 0.5;iprintln("move");}
wait 0.5;
self.origin=start;
}
}

I know it sounds hard to understand, but it basically calls for every stream ent the stream function, with its next entity to go after, the start point of stream_0 and the end point of stream_12

It works, but they somehow randomly move around and the distance between them gets always bigger, until they disappear from the map

[Drofder2004]

Over complicating things.
Get a single part of the stream working to go the correct route. Then set the steps to go off at an interval.

Look around the maping section, somebody has devoted his life to making things similar to this in the form of escalators

[IzNoGoD]

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main
{
	streament=[];
	while(isdefined(getent("stream_"+streament.size,"targetname")))
	{
		streament[streament.size]=getent("stream_"+streament.size,"targetname");
	}

	start=streament[0].origin;
	end=streament[streament.size-1].origin;
	speed=300;

	for(i=0;i<streament.size-1;i++)
	{
		streament[i] thread stream(start,end,speed);
	}
}
stream(start,end,speed)
{
	while(true)
	{
		self moveto(end, distance(self.origin,end)/speed);
		wait distance(self.origin,end)/speed;
		self.origin=start;
	}
}

Edit: you set your start/end positions to be dynamic AKA using an entity's origin as start/end, but when you try to "get" that origin in a thread, it checks where said entity is NOW, and cause that entity is moving on its own too, all gets fucked up. xD

[Nekoneko]

ah lol. ye i saw him (had like 10 different escalators)
But most ones i saw were hardcoded, like they manually put in the start and the endorigin + this one should go over curves.
Ill still go check them out tho.

Edit: well it should check where the next entity is now, so they all follow each other.

[IzNoGoD]

Well, try this:

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main
{
        streament=[];
        origins=[];
        while(isdefined(getent("stream_"+streament.size,"targetname")))
        {
                streament[streament.size]=getent("stream_"+streament.size,"targetname");
                origins[streament.size-1]=spawnstruct();
                origins[streament.size-1].origin=streament[streament.size-1].origin;
        }
 
        speed=300;
 
        for(i=0;i<streament.size-1;i++)
        {
                streament[i] thread stream(origins,i,speed);
        }
}
stream(origins,current,speed)
{
        while(true)
        {
                while(current<origins.size)
                {
                        self moveto(origins[current+1].origin,distance(self.origin,origins[current+1].origin)/speed);
                        self waittill("movedone");
                        current++;
                }
                current=0;
                self.origin=origins[current].origin;
        }
}

should follow the line.

[Nekoneko]

Sounds good.
Ill try it out, but what is spawnstruct() ?
is it just some placeholder to get the origins ?

[IzNoGoD]

spawnstruct() spawns a structure.

Example:

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thisisnotanentity=something;

Will not produce any errors

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thisisnotanentity.somesubvar=something;

Will produce errors, as the thisisnotanentity var is, well, not an entity. This can be solved by making the var into a structure, by using

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thisisnotanentity=spawnstruct();

Now, the var is a structure, and you can define 1 (one) more level of vars.

Take a look at this:

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player.primaryweapon="kar98k_mp";

This will not produce any errors, but

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player.primaryweapon.name="kar98k_mp";
player.primaryweapon.ammo=90;
player.primaryweapon.clip=5;

Will produce an error, but if you add the spawnstruct(); on top of it, it wont:

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player.primaryweapon=spawnsctruct();
player.primaryweapon.name="kar98k_mp";
player.primaryweapon.ammo=90;
player.primaryweapon.clip=5;

Adding one more level requires you to spawn another struct:

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player.weapon=spawnstruct();

player.weapon.primary=spawnstruct();
player.weapon.primary.name="thompson_mp";
player.weapon.primary.ammo=200;
player.weapon.primary.clip=20;

player.weapon.secondary=spawnstruct();
player.weapon.secondary.name="mp44_mp";
player.weapon.secondary.ammo=180;
player.weapon.secondary.clip=30;

You can add any number of layers there.
Good luck with it

[Nekoneko]

Hm. Interesting.
Nice to know, thanks.

[Drofder2004]

spawnstruct really seems to be useful function. i think, there will be no problem now in conveyor belt problem.
cheers,

is this a bot?

[Moustache]

@IzNoGoD:
Thanks for the great explanation, I didn't knew that.

And your script should give an error, you have main it should be main() of course