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I saw the following posted by uman in an old thread. It is locked.



I'm not sure if his question was finally answered or not but it wasn't in the life of the thread at any rate.

My question deals with moving the player to another location. You use one entity that has the "moveto" command in it and another entity that will be used to move the player to the proximity of said entity. Both entities need to be set to dynamic to work.

It does work to a degree. However, it seems to continue to run the script over and over and over again not allowing the player to move around from there. He is virtually stuck in a time warp.

Has anybody else used this and found the same thing or have you gotten it to work correctly. Or, maybe nobody has even used it.

I,v gotten it to work correctly. I used a zone though.

The thing that doesn't work for me is the player move east west north and south commands. Maybe I just don't know how to use them.

Thanks slayer. I did try the zone and same thing happens. The result is that the player cannot move anywhere after being moved. He is stuck. If you ever watched "Groundhog Day" it is like that except you keep repeating the move over and over again.

So, since I knew that it worked for you I continued investigating the possibilities. By simply adding the action "destroy", after the move action solved the problem. I assume you had done that as well. If not, there must be another work around, however, I am satisfied with destroying either the entity or zone so I can use this. It is going to be very effective and quite a surprise to the unware player. bwaaa haaa haaa ha.

As far as the other commands here is what I had found in another thread that had been locked.

@ uman



The following response by Les Horribres indicates he must have looked at the source code (which I still would love to have but cannot find).



Apparently the engine's hard-code will not allow for these commands to work. Have you tried them under the newer versions? IE, 1.04 or 1.05 (I hadn't tried). If they still don't work, I hope that the developers have not forgotten about them and will make sure they work in what I would assume would be in version, 2.0. Version 1.x seems to be their test versions until they work out all the bugs. That's ok by me but it does take more time that I would have wanted to take by discovering the things that work and the things that don't work.

F l a t l a n d e r,

I have used the plrmoveto command quite a bit and never had that problem. The only reason I can think of for that would be if both entites had the same name or you created a loop in the script.

This is the script from my site. You might look and see how it differs from yours.



Best.

can't you just use the teleporter scripts?

@ xplosys and @ vorconan

In a previous post I mention that I did get it to work within the parameters I needed. However, I decided to do some more testing as the teleportexit script uses the plrmoveto. However, I couldn't get the script as indicated by xplosys to work properly as written. xplosys, you still know a heck of a lot more about this than I do. It is actually getting rather interesting and challenging to experiment with these commands. I remember when I started my education in computer science back in 1974 I remember being told that part of learning anything regarding computers and computer programming is by trial and error. I think it is still that way. Well anyway here is what I had found out.