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FPSC Classic Scripts / Monster Closet

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protoborg
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Posted: 1st Jan 2008 21:47
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Does anyone know of a way to create a "monster closet"? Monster closets are what monsters appear out of to surprise the player. Doom 3 used them to great effect. I figure I can use Buttercutter to create a destroyable wall, but I need it to be destroyed by an enemy when the player gets close to it. I thought about using trigger zones. However, I do not know if that would work. Ideas, please.

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Seth Black
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Posted: 1st Jan 2008 22:14
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...sure. Use trigger zones to spawn monsters as needed.

By right-clicking on the trigger zone, you can finely position it, much like an entity, and place it exactly where you want the player to be, when a monster is spawned.

You can have a monster appear right in the player's face, or creep up immediately behind, for an ambush.

Ambush from behind is most effective, because the player has already been lulled into a sense of false security...he/she has already seen the area directly behind them, and hasn't seen anything.

Fine tune the trigger zone technique. You'll come up with a way to scare the stuffing out of even the most confident player.


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protoborg
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2008 03:52
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That is not quite what I had in mind. I want the monster to spawn inside a single segment room. the player will be walking down the hall. When the player gets to the segment the monster is next to, the monster will break through the wall and attack the player. The wall will be breakable thanks to Butters' Buttercutter. My question is how do I force the monster to break through the wall?

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Seth Black
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2008 04:00
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...anything short of a custom animation, that incorporates breaking through a wall within it, I don't believe you can get an entity to behave that way.

You could use a trigger zone to simultaneously spawn the monster and destroy the wall entity. That might yield a convincing result.


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Posted: 3rd Jan 2008 04:16
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What would I need to do to destroy the entity? Would I simply activate the destroy script or would it be more involved?

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Seth Black
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2008 04:34 Edited at: 3rd Jan 2008 04:37
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...place this as the MAIN SCRIPT for the wall entity.




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Posted: 3rd Jan 2008 05:22
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Thanks, SB.

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