Deathregion help (FAQ)

[Maveritchell]

Err... why don't you make it simple and just add the region in ZE? And besides, I'm pretty sure your AddDeathRegion needs to be in ScriptInit.

[Snork]

I did add the deathregion in ZE. the RGN file is the file that ZE writes when you add a region.

All the files in your World1 folder can be edited except for WLD and TER using notepad.

But thanks, I hope your right.

EDIT: I put it under ScriptInit and it didn't work.

[Maveritchell]

Huh. Don't know what to say. Here's an excerpt from my .lua in which the deathregion works. Only difference is that mine's at the end of ScriptInit.

-- Camera Stats
SetAttackingTeam(IMP)
-- Internal Alliance hangar
-- this shot is bad, needs to be fixed
AddCameraShot(-0.049495, 0.003922, -0.995646, -0.078892, 24.992880, -22.995819, -1025.940186);
--Flag shot
AddCameraShot(0.546201, 0.047743, 0.833116, -0.072822, 402.610260, -105.474068, -55.044727);
--Internal Imperial hangar
AddCameraShot(0.988295, -0.091070, 0.121873, 0.011230, 33.932011, 10.868500, 1567.624146);
-- Imperial ship overall
AddCameraShot(-0.380690, 0.021761, -0.922940, -0.052756, 1351.167236, 188.651230, -10.971837);
-- Alliance ship overall
AddCameraShot(0.941014, -0.051715, 0.333887, 0.018349, 1053.546143, 188.651230, -51.276745);

AddDeathRegion("deathregion2")
AddLandingRegion("imp-CP1Con")
AddLandingRegion("plt1con1")
AddLandingRegion("plt1con2")
AddLandingRegion("plt1con3")

end

[[RDH]Zerted]

For some reason, people seem to have problems with death regions. Most people don't have those problems when using damage regions. A high-damage rate damage region works the same as a death region.

[AceMastermind]

Deathregions aren't difficult to get working, you just have to load it from the LUA with the correct name.


In ZE go into Region Edit Mode and click on "New Region".

Then place it and scale it to the size you want.

Then click on "Select Region" and click on the region you just placed.

You can leave the "Region ID" name the default name if you want.

The "Class Properties" name is the one that gets loaded from the LUA, you can use whatever name you want, i'll just use "ace" for this example.
Save your wld file and close ZE.

Open your LUA, e.g. ABCc_con.lua and add this line:

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AddDeathRegion("ace")

then save, close, munge and play!



Notes:
In the LUA I always load them from the bottom of function ScriptPostLoad() right before "end" and they always worked, like this:

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    conquest:Start()
    
    EnableSPHeroRules()
    
    AddDeathRegion("ace")
        
 end

but you could load them under function ScriptInit() if you want, i've seen a couple of shipped lua scripts with them added that way too, for example kam1c_con.lua.


You can add as many deathregions as you want and place them in any layer. The important thing is the name that you gave your region in the "Class Properties" input field. You'll need an AddDeathRegion line in your LUA for each deathregion you place in ZE.
Death regions are very efficient, they will kill you instantly when you enter them, even if you drive or fly a vehicle into them.

[Snork]

Yayyy!!

*Gives Ace a very large donut*

[anakinfang]

How do you scale a region.

[lucasfart]

Have you even tried scaling the region yourself before posting this question? You scale a region exactly the same way you scale anything else in ZE.

[Marth8880]

You change the X, Y, and Z height settings with the region selected.



Lucasfart: What else, other than sectors and boundaries, does one even scale in Zero Editor?

[lucasfart]

Sorry. I remember it being decidedly easy when I had a working copy of ZE (which was a long time ago ). If it's not as easy as i remember it being, I apologise for being so abrupt with you. Now that I think about it, there's not much else you scale in ZE, but I just remember doing it so often I assumed there was a whole lot of stuff you used it for.

Besides:

When in REGION or BARRIER mode
C + L/R/M Mouse Button Scale Object in the X axis
X + L/R/M Mouse Button Scale Object in the Y axis
Z + L/R/M Mouse Button Scale Object in the Y axis

If you bother looking at the docs, you should find everything you need for maneuvring/manipulating in ZE without asking more questions here.

[AceMastermind]

Select the region then hold Z + L/R/M Mouse Button to scale the region in the X, Y, Z axis respectively or use the numerical input fields for precision as shown in Marth's image. You can also scale in multiple axis at the same time by pressing more than one mouse button. Be sure to read through the ZeroEditor_guide.doc for more information, but it isn't accurate regarding moving/scaling/rotating regions and barriers, likely a typo. It should look something like this:

When in REGION mode

C + L/R/M Mouse Button -Move region in the X, Y, Z axis

X + L/R/M Mouse Button -Rotate region in the X, Y, Z axis

Z + L/R/M Mouse Button -Scale region in the X, Y, Z axis

Press more than one mouse button simultaneously to move, rotate or scale in more than one axis at the same time.



When in BARRIER mode

C + L/R Mouse Button -Constrain movement in X or Z axis

X + L/R/M Mouse Button -left or middle click to cycle through and define a pivot then right click to rotate

Z + L Mouse Button -Move freely in X and Z axis simultaneously

[anakinfang]

thanks for help guys , I was confused where the scale control where. but scaling a region is easy.