What's wrong with my script? - GameCreators Forum

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sps999

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Posted: 7th Nov 2007 23:09

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I made a custom script (My very first one) and it's supposed to be like a teleporter that goes to location 1, then location 2 and so on, all the way up to location 8 but it always ends up at location 8, every time I go in the teleporter. Could someone point out what I did wrong.

Here's the code:

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;Artificial Intelligence Script

;Header

desc          = Transport To Entity Name

;Triggers

:state=0:rundecal=2,coloff
:state=0,plrdistwithin=40:plrmoveto=location_1,state=1
:state=1,plrdistwithin=40:plrmoveto=location_2,state=2
:state=2,plrdistwithin=40:plrmoveto=location_3,state=3
:state=3,plrdistwithin=40:plrmoveto=location_4,state=4
:state=4,plrdistwithin=40:plrmoveto=location_5,state=5
:state=5,plrdistwithin=40:plrmoveto=location_6,state=6
:state=6,plrdistwithin=40:plrmoveto=location_7,state=7
:state=7,plrdistwithin=40:plrmoveto=location_8,state=0

;End of Script

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Plystire

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Posted: 8th Nov 2007 01:48

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Okay, when programming ANYTHING, the programmer must ALWAYS be aware of something called "Order of Operation".

Try this out instead: (All I did was rearrange your code)

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;Artificial Intelligence Script

;Header

desc          = Transport To Entity Name

;Triggers

:state=0:rundecal=2,coloff
:state=7,plrdistwithin=40:plrmoveto=location_8,state=0
:state=6,plrdistwithin=40:plrmoveto=location_7,state=7
:state=5,plrdistwithin=40:plrmoveto=location_6,state=6
:state=4,plrdistwithin=40:plrmoveto=location_5,state=5
:state=3,plrdistwithin=40:plrmoveto=location_4,state=4
:state=2,plrdistwithin=40:plrmoveto=location_3,state=3
:state=1,plrdistwithin=40:plrmoveto=location_2,state=2
:state=0,plrdistwithin=40:plrmoveto=location_1,state=1

;End of Script

Let me know if that works. Sometimes when something seems so simple and yet is being a big problem, you could always just look at it "backwards" for an answer.