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[Rory Duffy]

Heya,
Does anyone know how to make an elevator door_mid,
(the 2 part door which opens upwards and downwards)
always move without needing to nudge from the front?

I'm trying to create a two-way crusher, where the top half (ceiling) and the bottom half (floor)
of the sector meet in the middle to sandwich the player in a death-crush which keeps moving.

ie:

addon: 0////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////addon: 0-->
//////////-->addon: 0-->///////////////////////-->addon: 0-->//////////-->
//////////-->//////////-->addon: 0///addon: 0-->//////////-->//////////-->
PLAYER:-->PLAYER:-->PLAYER CRUSHED!! -->PLAYER:-->PLAYER:--> (REPEAT)
//////////-->//////////-->addon: 1///addon: 1-->//////////-->//////////-->
//////////-->addon: 1-->///////////////////////-->addon: 1-->//////////-->
addon: 1////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////addon: 1-->

So far I've only been able to make the crushers work when nudged, which is not a lot of use!!
Has anyone worked it out yet?

Rory

[DF4GL4ever]

What does your script say right now?

[Rory Duffy]

Well, at first I used the elevator door_mid script from the DF Editor's INF Guide:

class: elevator door_mid
addon: 0
speed: 5
master: on
addon: 1
speed: 5
master: on

Then, I figured that maybe it assumes event_mask 48 (nudge from front/back)
because it is a door so I added event_mask 0 (work all the time). Didn't change.

class: elevator door_mid
event_mask: 0
addon: 0
speed: 5
master: on
addon: 1
speed: 5
master: on

Perhaps the addon values work with other elevator classes???? I tried this here;

class: elevator move_fc
event_mask 0
addon: 0
speed: 5
master: on
addon: 1
speed: 5
master: on

This has an interesting effect...it makes the elevator surge infinitely downwards.
But this was not what I wanted!
I've only just learnt how to use INF from referring to the guide, so I'm not any good at making new ones.
I just thought it would be cool to have a hydro generator which the player has to crawl through to get to the lagoon.

Thanks for any help you can give me!

[Scape Goat]

I'd use a combination of 'move_floor' and 'move_ceiling'.

[Rory Duffy]

Thanks, Scape Goat...that works a treat!!!
Let it be a message to anyone who wants
to make sandwich crushers!
Hmmm....now to all those pesky altitudes.

[DF4GL4ever]

Glad to hear that works...I'll have to try it out! Btw would adding

stop: 0 0
stop: 5 0
to the bottom addon and

stop: 10 0
stop: 5 0

to the top addon in your original script for say a 10-high crusher have worked?

[Rory Duffy]

No, it didn't work - it was the problem that the crusher only opened when nudged.
It thought itself was a door! At the moment, my script says this:

class: elevator move_ceiling
event_mask: 0
speed: 5
stop: 24 2
stop: 8 2
class: elevator move_floor
event_mask: 0
speed: 5
stop: -8 2
stop: 8 2

ie, the ceiling starts at -24 and the floor starts at 8.
The ceiling falls 16 to meet the floor at -8 which has risen from 8.
It's a 16 high crusher, so yes it does work like that.
The only thing you have to watch out for, that was confusing me,
is that with all absolute stops the altitude values are the opposite.
So: + = above ground, and - = below ground. (for some reason?)

Oh and make sure the sector has the sector flag 'crushing sector.'

[DF4GL4ever]

Ah ok. I guess DF must look at that class: elevator door_mid and say "ooooohhh a door" and treat it as such.

Now back to trying and get the accelerating elevator to work efficiently...

[DF4GL4ever]

Ack stupid double post...I don't like dialup...