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Topic Author King of Space 
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23 years 1 month agoOriginally posted by GrandpaTrout
Some #2 items. I have not been able to get deathscripts to work with PBC bolt objects. They do work with REM missiles, but sometimes the player gets trapped with the dead sim. Cargo pods become targetable subsims when you child attach them to a ship. Countermeasure flares do not become targetable. Some can be fixed immobile. Some cannot. I will dig up a list of Object types. We can try to fill in the behavior. (like a group crossword!)
-Gtrout
Were you actually trying to get a bolt to go through a deathscript??
why would one want that?
Here is the way I handle Deathscripts for example:
Code:
//when I create the sim I add the function I want called
Object.SetStringProperty( guard_bot, "death_script", "<my package>.ObjectDeath" );
// then I do the function like this for example
task ObjectDeath( hsim sim )
{
hship last_attacker;
string message, object_name;
htask delay;
int frag_value;
int dropit;
hfaction aggressor_faction, object_faction;
hship player=iShip.FindPlayerShip();
hsim bomb;
atomic
{
object_faction = iSim.Faction( iSim.Cast(sim) );
last_attacker = iShip.Cast( iSim.LastAttacker(iSim.Cast(sim)) );
aggressor_faction = iSim.Faction( last_attacker );
object_name= Object.StringProperty( sim, "name" );
// update the score of out attacker ( increment by frag_value )
if ( iSim.Type(sim) == T_CargoPod )
{
// play around with different results of killing a pod
dropit = Math.RandomInt(1, 5);
if ( aggressor_faction != object_faction )
{
roMPUtils.increment_frags ( last_attacker, roMPUtils.get_frag_value(sim) );
}
else roMPUtils.decrement_frags ( last_attacker, roMPUtils.get_frag_value(sim) );
// give the lucky player a health power up
if (dropit <= 3 ) roMPUtils.SpawnKilledPodPowerUps (sim);
else //blow him up with AM
{
message = iMPUtils.MakeDeathMessage( last_attacker, sim );
//delay = start roMPUtils.delay_broadcast_message( sim, message, BMT_Event, 2.0 );
bomb = Sim.Create ( "ini:/sims/8km_am_explosion_wr", "big Big" );
Sim.PlaceAt ( bomb, sim );
start iDeathScript.Explosives( iSim.Cast(sim) );
Sim.Destroy( iSim.Cast(sim) );
//Task.Detach( delay );
return;
}
}
else
{
if (aggressor_faction == iFaction.Find(Text.Field("mp_flag_team_a", FT_Text)))
{
if (String.Left(object_name ,4) == "Beta" || object_faction == iFaction.Find(Text.Field("mp_flag_team_b", FT_Text)))
{
roMPUtils.increment_frags ( last_attacker, roMPUtils.get_frag_value(sim) );
}
else roMPUtils.decrement_frags ( last_attacker, roMPUtils.get_frag_value(sim) );
}
if (aggressor_faction == iFaction.Find(Text.Field("mp_flag_team_b", FT_Text)))
{
if (String.Left(object_name ,5) == "Alpha" || object_faction == iFaction.Find(Text.Field("mp_flag_team_b", FT_Text)))
{
roMPUtils.increment_frags ( last_attacker, roMPUtils.get_frag_value(sim) );
}
else roMPUtils.decrement_frags ( last_attacker, roMPUtils.get_frag_value(sim) );
}
}
// tell everyone about it
message = iMPUtils.MakeDeathMessage( last_attacker, sim );
delay = start roMPUtils.delay_broadcast_message( sim, message, BMT_Event, 2.0 );
if ( object_name == "Gunstar 8ty8" )
{
if (object_faction == iFaction.Find(Text.Field("mp_flag_team_b", FT_Text)))
//send a message that one can be re-deployed
ServerOnUserMessage( 154, last_attacker, none, " Beta Gunstar destroyed" );
else ServerOnUserMessage( 156, last_attacker, none, "Alpha Gunstar destroyed" );
bomb = Sim.Create ( "ini:/sims/1_5km_am_explosion_wr", "Lil Bigi" );
Sim.PlaceAt ( bomb, sim );
start iDeathScript.Explosives( iSim.Cast(sim) );
Sim.Destroy( iSim.Cast(sim) );
//Task.Detach( delay );
return;
}
start iDeathScript.Explosives( iSim.Cast(sim) );
Sim.Destroy( iSim.Cast(sim) );
Task.Detach( delay );
}
} //ObjectDeath
as you see I have different sim types going through the function and do all kinds of different stuff with em.
Edit: sorry the script got hard to read, I forget to close my code entry with /code
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Topic Author King of Space
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Re:
23 years 1 month ago
This is tough question week for you! 
I have never used locks. I just use global booleans inside atomic statements. They are fast and tested. You may have already seen this, but just in case:
// Grab lock
atomic {
if (false == Global.Bool("myLock")){
// lock is clear, so grab it.
Global.SetBool("myLock",true);
}else {
// lock is held, so return.
return;
}
}// end atomic.
// Release Lock at end of use.
atomic {
Global.SetBool("myLock", false);
}
-Gtrout
I have never used locks. I just use global booleans inside atomic statements. They are fast and tested. You may have already seen this, but just in case:
// Grab lock
atomic {
if (false == Global.Bool("myLock")){
// lock is clear, so grab it.
Global.SetBool("myLock",true);
}else {
// lock is held, so return.
return;
}
}// end atomic.
// Release Lock at end of use.
atomic {
Global.SetBool("myLock", false);
}
-Gtrout
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