Earthquake machine >:)
Posted: September 16th, 2010, 8:14 pm
earthquake machine 
its pretty simple but im sure some less advanced mappers / scripters will like it 
firstly, to make it look good put a model in your map such as icbm_electronic_cabinet7, where you
want the earthquake machine to go and put a "clip" brush around it to make it solid.
then you need to creat a trigger around it. so create a trigger brush and then with the trigger selected
right click on your 2d grid >>> trigger >>> use_touch
then with the trigger brush still selected, press N to bring up the following values and enter these:
key: Targetname
value: earthquake
key: hintstring
value: ^2Press ^3&&1 ^2to cause an earthquake
like this
now you just need to place 2 origins in your map, one is going to be for the sound, and one is going to
be for where the earthquake is actually gonna come from
so right click on your 2d grid >>> script >>> origin and place it roughly in the center of your map
and enter this value:
key: targetname
value: quake
and now create another origin and place it next to the previous one and enter these values:
key: targetname
value: sound
should look like this:
Ok thats the mapping side of it done now for the scripting >:)
the scripting for this if im honest is pretty easy. here is an example gsc with the scriptin it, i will
also explain the script and what vairables you can change
compile, buildd fast files and earthquake away!!
here is a quick video of the finished product (from an old testmap)
http://www.xfire.com/video/2c2cb5/
its pretty simple but im sure some less advanced mappers / scripters will like it firstly, to make it look good put a model in your map such as icbm_electronic_cabinet7, where you
want the earthquake machine to go and put a "clip" brush around it to make it solid.
then you need to creat a trigger around it. so create a trigger brush and then with the trigger selected
right click on your 2d grid >>> trigger >>> use_touch
then with the trigger brush still selected, press N to bring up the following values and enter these:
key: Targetname
value: earthquake
key: hintstring
value: ^2Press ^3&&1 ^2to cause an earthquake
like this
now you just need to place 2 origins in your map, one is going to be for the sound, and one is going to
be for where the earthquake is actually gonna come from
so right click on your 2d grid >>> script >>> origin and place it roughly in the center of your map
and enter this value:
key: targetname
value: quake
and now create another origin and place it next to the previous one and enter these values:
key: targetname
value: sound
should look like this:
Ok thats the mapping side of it done
now for the scripting >:)the scripting for this if im honest is pretty easy. here is an example gsc with the scriptin it, i will
also explain the script and what vairables you can change
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main()
{
maps\mp\_load::main();
ambientPlay("ambient_backlot_ext");
game["allies"] = "sas";
game["axis"] = "opfor";
game["attackers"] = "axis";
game["defenders"] = "allies";
game["allies_soldiertype"] = "woodland";
game["axis_soldiertype"] = "woodland";
setdvar( "r_specularcolorscale", "1" );
setdvar("r_glowbloomintensity0",".25");
setdvar("r_glowbloomintensity1",".25");
setdvar("r_glowskybleedintensity0",".3");
setdvar("compassmaxrange","1800");
thread quake();
}
quake()
{
trigger = getent("earthquake","targetname"); // this finds the entity you created (the trigger)
quake = getent("quake","targetname"); // this finds the entity you created (the origin named quke)
sound = getent("sound","targetname"); // this finds the entity you created (the origin named sound)
while (1)
{
trigger waittill ("trigger",user);
wait 1;
iprintlnbold( "EAARRTHHHQUUAAKKE!!!"); //prints inbold "EAARRTHHHQUUAAKKE!!!" to all the users on the map, feel free to change the text :)
sound PlaySound( "elm_quake_sub_rumble"); //plays the sound of an earthquake at the origin "sound"
Earthquake( 0.7, 8, quake.origin, 10000 ); // (magnitude of the earthquake, length, at what origin, and the radius) these values can be changed apart from the origin
wait 2;
}
}compile, buildd fast files and earthquake away!!
here is a quick video of the finished product (from an old testmap)
http://www.xfire.com/video/2c2cb5/
is it possable for that to be edited?