Make Sure The Sprite Is Off! Created 18 years ago2005-05-21 12:29:48 UTC by Zat_AJ

Hi. I have a button that turns a flame sprite, 3 orange lights and a trigger hurt for 10 secconds. The mod I'm making the map in has "rounds". If the flame sprite is on when the round ends, it says on for the next round, but when you press the button it turns off, but the lights and trigger hurt turn on. How can I make sure, that the sprite will be off before the end of the round?

Depends on the mod.

Well lets pretend it's counter-strike. What could I do?

Trigger relays can set things only on or only off not only toggle them.

Well, for CS, there's a tutorial near the bottom on this page.

Hmm... can't find it... Can you give a direct link?

You posted that five and a half hours ago. You could have read through that entire listing in ten minutes. Do.

I found it in 10 seconds. It's called "Resetting entities at the start of every round". I'm not going to direct link it either. Otherwise you'll never learn to use your mouse.

Well no wonder I couldn't find it. I didn't know what it was called. Thanks. I'll read it now and get back to ya.

Ok wait. I don't understand. What does that do? When you use the door it triggers the entity (in my case sprite) until it closes? Or it only turns it off when it is on? Or what?

I just want to make sure it's off when the round starts.

It'll just trigger the entity. Use an env_render to make it invisible, and another completely seperate one to make it visible again. env_render's aren't togglable, they just take effect whenever fired.

Ok, ok... wait a seccond. I am very confused. Could you dumb it down for me?

I have a door in my map. When someone opens it, it triggers the Multimanager which triggers the sprite to turn off? Do I have that right? And what is this about env_render? I use that in place of what?

It seems to me that this door thing is used to start the entity like that in the first place. The problem is, there is nothing I can use to trigger something, only if it's on. This is triggering it at the begining of the map, but I don't always want it triggered, I want it only if it is on.
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Is there not someway other than useing multimanagers to make a sprite turn off in 5 secconds?

Thanks again for the help.

The multi manager should target a trigger relay(with trigger state set to off) that targets the sprite!!!

OH! I get it!

So now I have a door that at the beginning of the round targets a multimanager that targets a relay (set to off) that triggers the sprite?

Or do I have to open the door for it to work every round?

Well I just compiled it and it doesn't work. Can I not just make a trigger multiple at the exit to the spawn that triggers the relay which turns off the sprite?

I mean... trigger_once? trigger_once 's re-initialize after each round right?

I think so.

Ok, well I'm not having much luck with that either. It seems to not trigger it all the time and it sort of messes up.

Jeeze... how hard is it to trigger something at the begging of a map! Grr...

You'd think someone's had this problem before.

To trigger something when the level is loaded just use trigger auto!!!

Trigger_auto eh? Can this thing be set to trigger something at intervals (ex. Every 60 secconds?)

No!

You will need it to target a multi_manager that targets the thing you want to trigger and after 60 seconds it targets itself!!!

I just realized something. What if someone clicks the button to turn the flame on, during the time that the trigger_auto turns it off? Grrr!! I need something that triggers at the begging of every round. Not at the begging of the server. Thanks anyway, but this won't work.

Cound I do this?:

button triggers multimanager
multimanager triggers trigger_relay
multimanager also triggers the flame sprite on after a seccond is left to make sure that the flame is off.
trigger_relay triggers flame sprite off one seccond before the flame sprite is turned on.

That would make sure that the flame sprite and the trigger_hurt, arn't on at the same time. Would it not?

Multi_manager only toggles from on to off and the oppisite. If I understood then you can do it!

Well it seems simple now that I think of it.

When the sprite is on when everyone dies, it stays on during the next round, but it's switched with the trigger_hurt and the lights. So when you press the button the sprite turns off and the trigger_hurt turns on. So, but triggering the sprite to always be off everytime you press the button before it turns on, they won't be switched.

Thanks again for all of your guyses help.