Door Script idea??

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Door Script idea??

Post by Sheyjin »

I would like to see a script to put on the doors, that requires a <tag>_1a or 1b on the door tag/resref..

i.e area001 door -- UM001_1a
area002 door -- UM001_1b

now the script will send the PC from 1a to 1b or vis a versa, so all he script is actually doing is looking for the other door that has the same tag with the extention _1a or _1b..

Does this make sence? and is it workable?
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Post by Ronan »

Yes, its workable. However, the ACR doesn't use tags to store data for door settings - we just have far too many of them. We use local variables.

But my question is, why? Unless I'm missunderstanding, thats no different from defining an AT destination?
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Post by Fionn »

Well, it would make it easier as you'd only need to update the tag on each door, rather than the tag *and* AT destination. This avoids typos as well. Seems like more work than it's worth to me though. Shrugs.
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Post by ç i p h é r »

Yeah I think Fionn's right. It's just a shortcut (one less thing to do).

I think there may be a problem with hardcoding this though. Can all doors be setup to transition the same way (ie one door to another)? Will there ever be a need to transition to a waypoint for example? In NWN, waypoints were used to set the direction a character was facing when coming through the transition.
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