Security Camera

[Drofder2004]

EDIT: I loaded the map in CoD and the camera appeared, but it didnt move and didn't have any textures.

It doesnt move because you need to script it

Textures are missing because you havent extracted the files correctly (skins?)

[Pedsdude]

Ah I think I know what I've done wrong... will report back soon

EDIT:
It now works fine, moves etc with textures on, although whenever I go in the trigger area it comes up with the message saying I've been spotted, rather than when I'm actually in the line of sight of the camera. Also, how would I make it so that it slowly hurts you when you are in the line of sight of the camera?

[Drofder2004]

triggers cannot be moved, but there are easy ways of detection (im guessing the trigger multiple doe the detection?

Anyway. This is my way of doing it...

Make the trigger multiple fill the entire area where the camera can see.
Then make a box out of texture "no_draw_non_solid" (found in common).
Then make the box a script_brushmodel.
Now use that brush as the detector.

Now in the scripting do...

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if(self isTouching(trigger) && self isTouching(brush))
self iprintln("you were spotted by camera");

That will make the camera detect you.



(Nice work btw)

Peds ^^

[Nightmare]

Cameras that can hurt? That would be crazy

[Drofder2004]

Cameras that can hurt? That would be crazy

Lasers!!!

[Pedsdude]

triggers cannot be moved, but there are easy ways of detection (im guessing the trigger multiple doe the detection?

Anyway. This is my way of doing it...

Make the trigger multiple fill the entire area where the camera can see.
Then make a box out of texture "no_draw_non_solid" (found in common).
Then make the box a script_brushmodel.
Now use that brush as the detector.

Now in the scripting do...

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if(self isTouching(trigger) && self isTouching(brush))
self iprintln("you were spotted by camera");

That will make the camera detect you.



(Nice work btw)

Peds ^^

Aha, should have looked What about making it hurt you slowly?

[Drofder2004]

Aha, should have looked What about making it hurt you slowly?

Just testing my code... if it works, then i'll post it.

[Drofder2004]

Ok, you need to make a trigger. The trigger, needs to be somewhere where it is guarenteed to be touched (doorway/spawn/etc).

Give that a targetname of start.

Now, you need to make a brushmodel that is going to act as the camera spotter. The brush only need to be 1 unit high, but it must touch the floor. You are going to be moving the brush around the floor as the camera moves (imagine this as a spotlight, that only detects people feet )
Give the entire brush the texture called (nodraw_notsolid).

Now for the script.

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main()
{
thread start();
}

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start()
{
start = getent("start","targetname");
brush = getent("brush","targetname");
brush thread move();

start waittill("trigger",user);
user thread hurt();
}

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hurt()
{
brush = getent("brush","targetname");

while(1)
{
if(self.health > 0 && self isTouching(brush))
{	
	if(self.health > 0)
		self.health--;
		
	wait 0.05;
}
else if(self.health < 1)
{
	self suicide();
	break;
}
else
	break;	
}
wait 0.1;
}

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move()
{
//Movements
}

in the move() thread, you do not need getent or "brush", use the word "self" when referring to the brush.

Tell me of any problems... (this is only partially tested and may be faulty )

[Pedsdude]

OK, so what's the point of the nodraw brush coming from the camera then?

[Drofder2004]

OK, so what's the point of the nodraw brush coming from the camera then?

scrap it.

[Pedsdude]

So I should delete the current nodraw and trigger covering the whole area, then add a brushmodel with nodraw and a trigger which starts when they enter?

[Drofder2004]

So I should delete the current nodraw and trigger covering the whole area, then add a brushmodel with nodraw and a trigger which starts when they enter?

You only need the 2 things I said...

1 trigger_multiple. This is used for grabbing a single player and running the camera thread on that player.
1 script_brushmodel. This is used as the spotlight area for the camera.

Nothing else is needed.

[Pedsdude]

Hmm sorry to be so much hassle, but I'm confused. I have the following code:

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main()
{
	ambientPlay("ambient_mp_harbor");

	maps\mp\_load::main();
	
	game["allies"] = "american";
	game["axis"] = "german";

	game["american_soldiertype"] = "airborne";
	game["american_soldiervariation"] = "normal";
	game["german_soldiertype"] = "fallschirmjagergrey";
	game["german_soldiervariation"] = "normal";

	game["attackers"] = "allies";
	game["defenders"] = "axis";
	
	thread Camera();	
	thread Camera_scope();
	thread cam_trigger();
}





Camera()
{
	move_camera_01 = getentarray("camera_01","targetname");

	if(isdefined(move_camera_01))
		{
		for(i=0;i<move_camera_01.size;i++)
			{
			move_camera_01[i] thread do_move_camera_01();
			}
		}
}

Camera_scope()
{
	move_camera__scope_01 = getentarray("camera_trigger_01","targetname");

	if(isdefined(move_camera__scope_01))
		{
		for(i=0;i<move_camera__scope_01.size;i++)
			{
			move_camera__scope_01[i] thread do_move_camera_01();
			}
		}
}

do_move_camera_01()
{
	while(true)
		{
		self rotateyaw (25, 5);		//Rotate the camera to the left, with a speed of 5
		self waittill ("rotatedone");	//wait untill the rotate is done, els it doesn't work
		self rotateyaw (-25, 5);		//Rotate the camera to the right
		self waittill ("rotatedone");
		self rotateyaw (-25, 5);		//Rotate the camera to the right
		self waittill ("rotatedone");
		self rotateyaw (25, 5);		//Rotate the camera to the start position
		self waittill ("rotatedone");
		}
}

cam_trigger()
{
	cam_trig_area_01 = getent ("camera_trigger_area_01","targetname");
	move_camera__scope_01 = getent("camera_trigger_01","targetname");
	
	while(1)
		{
			cam_trig_area_01 waittill ("trigger",user);

			if (user istouching(move_camera__scope_01))
				{	
				user thread Camera_action();
				}
	wait .5;
		}
}

Camera_action()
{
			self iprintlnbold (self.name + " ^1the camera has spotted you!");				
}

Seeing you asked me to delete the brushes and triggers that I didn't need in the .map file, I'm not sure which ones of those to keep and which to get rid of.

I have created a trigger_multiple with targetname 'start', and a brushmodel with nodraw texture and targetname 'spotter'. What should the .gsc look like?

[Drofder2004]

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main()
{
   ambientPlay("ambient_mp_harbor");

   maps\mp\_load::main();
   
   game["allies"] = "american";
   game["axis"] = "german";

   game["american_soldiertype"] = "airborne";
   game["american_soldiervariation"] = "normal";
   game["german_soldiertype"] = "fallschirmjagergrey";
   game["german_soldiervariation"] = "normal";

   game["attackers"] = "allies";
   game["defenders"] = "axis";
   
   thread camera_think();
   thread spotter_think();
   thread start();
}

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camera_think()
{
   move_camera = getentarray("camera","targetname");

   if(isdefined(move_camera))
      {
      for(i=0;i<move_camera.size;i++)
         {
         move_camera[i] thread do_move_camera();
         }
      }
}

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do_move_camera();
{
while(1)
      {
      self rotateyaw (25, 5);
      self waittill ("rotatedone");
      self rotateyaw (-25, 5);
      self waittill ("rotatedone");
      self rotateyaw (-25, 5);
      self waittill ("rotatedone");
      self rotateyaw (25, 5);
      self waittill ("rotatedone");
      }
}

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spotter_think();
{
   spotter = getentarray("spotter","targetname");

   if(isdefined(spotter))
      {
      for(i=0;i<spottera.size;i++)
         {
         spotter[i] thread do_move_spotter();
         }
      }
}

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do_move_spotter()
{
while(1)
{
//Move Spotter (You will have to work this out)
}
}

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start()
{
start = getent("start","targetname");
while(1)
{
start waittill ("trigger",user);
user spotter(); //May or may not need to be threaded
}
}

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spotter()
{
spotter = getent("spotter","targetname");

while(1)
{

/*********************
if(self.health > 0 && self isTouching(spotter))
{   
   if(self.health > 0)
      self.health--;
      
   wait 0.05;
}
else if(self.health < 1)
{
   self suicide();
   break;
}
else
   break;
*********************/

self iprintlnbold("Spotted"); // for testing purposes...
}
wait 0.1;
}

Ok, a few problems that maybe leveller can help with...
I am unsure of using an array (getentarray) for the last thread because of the "self isTouching(spotter)".
So the above code, is only currently available for one single spotter.

Other things to point out are the change of entity names...

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move_camera = getentarray("camera","targetname");

Name all of your cameras, "camera".

The last thread has been mostly edited out, because you need to test to see if the threads work properly. Once you know the thread works, you can remove the comments ("/*" and "*/") to test the hurt code.

Try that... (its untested and mostly written off the top of my head)

[leveller]

I'm a bit confused why you want to rewrite the whole script again, its working good as it is.
the only thing that deeds to be edited = the last thread, "Camera_action()".

anyway, this is what i think you want(need).

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spotter_think();
{
   spotter = getentarray("spotter","targetname");

   if(isdefined(spotter))
      {
      for(i=0;i<spottera.size;i++)
         {
         spotter[i] thread do_move_camera();
         }
      }
}

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start()
{
start = getent("start","targetname");
spotter = getent("spotter","targetname");
while(1)
{
start waittill ("trigger",user);
if (user istouching(spotter))
user thread spotter();
}
}

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spotter()
{
while(1)
{
   if(self.health > 0)
      self.health--;
      
   wait 0.05;
}

else if(self.health < 1)
{
   self suicide();
   break;
}
// else  //<---Why is that?
// break; //<--And thins one.

self iprintlnbold("Spotted"); // for testing purposes...
}
wait 0.1;
}

Ok, a few problems that maybe leveller can help with...
I am unsure of using an array (getentarray) for the last thread because of the "self isTouching(spotter)".
So the above code, is only currently available for one single spotter.

cant remember exactly but i believe a getentarray didn't work or only partial worked.