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First off, I folowed Penguin's tut, or whoever originaly made it.

Second, I tryed doing a search, but the seach is kinda weird... anyway, I couldn't find any topics on this.

Ok
I made my region, its a cylinder, and I named it telre1 [aka (teleport - Region - #1)].
Then I made a new path that I named telpa1 [aka (teleport - path - #1)] and placed one node, and moved it underground. (which was hard to get in the right spot underground.)

Then comes the Lua.
Note: Parts of the lua have been renamed (mostly side unit names) for secrecy.
While I'm at it,

AddDeathRegion("dr1")

Isn't working eather.

MoveEntityToNode(character,"telpa1")
MoveEntityToNode(entIn,pathIn,nodeIn)
You should say which node you what the character to spawn at.

Also, put print("<add your own defferent, random text here>") statements (don't forget to change the text inside the qoutes for each print() ) before and after your event callback and a few other places. Then run the map and check the error log. This will let you figure out what exactly segements of you code are being run and what it is skippping.

A bunch of people have been asking me about teleporting problems, so I decided to write and easier to use teleporting script. I'll be done it by the end of this week.

Here are two of the three main teleporting topics:
http://www.gametoast.com/forums/viewtop ... 27&t=10954
http://www.gametoast.com/forums/viewtop ... =27&t=6916

not sure I got all that...

Your saying instead of refrencing the path, (telpa1) I need to use the node name itself, (node 0)

OFFTOPIC: Yeah, what's up with the search? I searched "region" and only came up with 4 results. I know that can't be right.

Don't use deathregions, use damageregions, More control on how much damage on what type of unit/vehicle and no need for LUA editing.

And to fix your tele, at the end the end script needs to be put AFTER 'end' for the camerashots not before.

should look like this

AddCameraShot(0.169759, 0.002225, -0.985398, 0.012916, 126.972809, 4.039628, -22.020613);
AddCameraShot(0.677453, -0.041535, 0.733016, 0.044942, 97.517807, 4.039628, 36.853477);
AddCameraShot(0.866029, -0.156506, 0.467299, 0.084449, 7.685640, 7.130688, -10.895234);

end

function MoveEntityToNode(entIn,pathIn,nodeIn)
if not entIn then
print("Warning!: Entity not specified for move")
return false
elseif not pathIn then
print("Warning!: Path not specified for Entity " .. entIn .. " move")
return false
end

local node
if nodeIn then
node = nodeIn
else
node = 0
end

local locDest = GetPathPoint(pathIn,node)
local charUnit = GetCharacterUnit(entIn)
if charUnit then
SetEntityMatrix(charUnit,locDest)
return true
end
return false
end

Something of note with teleporting, is that, from my Observation, its not actually a vanish and reappear thing.

The teleported object actually moves very fast to the specified path, so fast that collisions are ignored...mostly...

If you have too many objects too close (or not close enough) and the destination isn't far away enough, the destination might be offset. For my race map with its billion anti-cheat / cliff fall down teleporters, I think i'll have to rig them to move the Entity to a distant node before the destination node.

... Yep still not working.

So your saying sometimes if there are alot of objects near by, or in your path, you may not teleport?
Even so, I'm not moving really fast or anything like that.

Hey Zerted, any luck with that code so far? My map is basically hinging on it to be completed.

MetalcoreRancor wrote:Hey Zerted, any luck with that code so far? My map is basically hinging on it to be completed.

Oh sorry. My dorm doesn't have air conditioning and the rooms are around 100, so I've been trying to spend most of the time away from my computer. Its going to cool down again tonight. I have most of it written, just need to test it. Want any special features?

Right now you would use it like:

Honestly, I'll be uber uber super happy to just finally have it, and get it working, so I can finish my map on the weekend. I'm content with the basic idea, no features needed for me.

So...

local from = GetCharacterLocation( player )
local to = GetRegionDestination(telre1)
DoSingleTeleport(telre1, telpa1 )

?


EDIT
Pardon dual post, but its not working.

ScriptCB_DoFile("teleport")

--A single teleport
local from = GetCharacterLocation( player )
local to = GetRegionDestination( telre1 )
DoSingleTeleport( telre1, telpa1 )

end

Caleb1117 wrote:So...

local from = GetCharacterLocation( player )
local to = GetRegionDestination(telre1)
DoSingleTeleport(telre1, telpa1 )

?

It would bebut you don't have teleport.lua yet. I'm still making that file.

Off-Topic: when I hit preview, the forum said there were new posts in the topic and displayed them. Nice new feature.

Oh ok, there is a teleport lua that will go along with it.
In data_abc/common/scripts I assume?

Caleb1117 wrote:Oh ok, there is a teleport lua that will go along with it.
In data_abc/common/scripts I assume?

Yes. I'll do my best to have to done for tomorrow.

Hey, no big rush.
Take your time, school is important.
Or so they tell me.

Thank you so much for doing this. I can't tell you how much it means to me. My map wont be possible without teleportation... But yea, I will look forward to it =)

If anyone wants to test it out, you can download the 97% finished code here: https://www.se.rit.edu/~dpk3062/swbf2/r ... leport.lua

Edit:
The code works fine. You can also download it from here: http://zerted.getmyip.com/random/teleport.lua

Wow...thats really complicated as opposed to the custom "Moveentitytomatrix" function that Penguin released in the other teleport thread. (+ the GetCharacterVehicle stuff I added)

Excuse the criticism, but that just looks like a lot of extra custom functions and possibly redundant nil checks. The debugs are nice, but, I like simplicity.
Main Lua stuff I'm pretty sure you developed most of this, Zerted. It seems to work and I thought that 'if Variable then' checked to see if the variable was nil. I have had some mis-teleports though, it might be a mis-saved path move in the editor, or a missing path or something, but I think missing path ctds. So, if you're code will assist majorly with debugging and run more smoothly, please finish it!

Off-Topic: Zerted, do you know how or what entity matrixes are? I could never get them to print into bf2log. I wanted to be able to "dissect" them and alter say, the X value of the coordinates. I'm working on a race mode which has ~30 teleporter region-path setups, mostly for route/direction control, but a few belong to a system that will restore dead racers to a checkpoint. If there is a way to alter that to restore them to just behind where they died by grabbing and altering their orientation and location...
*Edit* Thats impossible without a taxing recursive timer store that the last location of all racers, because OnCharacterDeath...well, is flawed in one way or another. Still, editing matrix values would be extremely useful in some situation I'm sure.

I really just want to have the code finished so I can get my map done soon =|

Btw I tried that posted lua code and it still didnt work Zerted.

If I could have gotten the original code that penguin posted to work, this topic would not exist, if I knew, metal wouldn't have a problem eather.

Simple is good, but simple to use is better IMO.