Scripting a checkpoint

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:21 pm

How do I script a checkpoint, you know, where you respawn after you die. What should I do?

Any solutions?

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 6:53 am

For future reference, D3Edit topics go in Descent Development, not the Coders' Corner.

And there's no scripting required for waypoints. Just add one to the level (they're on the Object bar I believe, they used to be on the Sound bar a while ago). When the player runs over the waypoint, D3 will remember. When the player dies, he will respawn at the last waypoint he touched.

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 10:27 am

thank you

DarkFlameWolf · Post by **DarkFlameWolf** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 11:04 pm

there's gotta be more specific than that. Is the waypoint like a portal or an object that the player must get NEAR to activate?

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 11:36 pm

DCrazy wrote:For future reference, D3Edit topics go in Descent Development, not the Coders' Corner.

And there's no scripting required for waypoints. Just add one to the level (they're on the Object bar I believe, they used to be on the Sound bar a while ago). When the player runs over the waypoint, D3 will remember. When the player dies, he will respawn at the last waypoint he touched.

Actually, they're on the sound bar. I Think

DarkFlameWolf wrote:there's gotta be more specific than that. Is the waypoint like a portal or an object that the player must get NEAR to activate?

Hmmmmm... Good Question.

I think Gameedit.com should include a description about waypoint.

Arbitar · Post by **Arbitar** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 1:44 am

you heard the man Skyalmian

Interceptor6 · Post by **Interceptor6** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 7:29 pm

You only need to go in the room with the waypoint to activate it. It is an object, placed in the level. It is on the sound bar (for some unknown reason).

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 1:51 pm

Are you guys running the absolute latest version of D3Edit? I could have sworn that at some point OtherOne moved the Waypoint button to the Object bar.

OG3 used waypoints as well. If you died in the middle of a race, you respawned at the last waypoint you touched. Unfortunately, collisions with waypoints are never reported to the mod, so we had to use "special" room flags (S1, S2, etc.) -- we called them checkpoints -- to determine where players were, and waypoints to respawn them at certain locations. This limited the number of checkpoints in a level to 5 + the starting line (room S1).

[edit]You only need to go into the room with the waypoint in it? No wonder collisions with waypoints are never noted, because they never happen...[/edit]