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FPSC Classic Scripts / Multiple Alarm Lights - help..?

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Pyr0 technician
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Posted: 13th Aug 2008 15:08
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I modified the light2.fpi file to create a light that flashes on and off at regular intervals, like an alarm, using a timer.
It works great when there's one light, but when I try to assign the script to more than one light, it doesn't work, only one of the lights flickers, the other just stays lit(Both are dynamic and have the right script).
I read somewhere that I could use variables, but I really don't know anything about them.

here's the script:



any help would be much appreciated.

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Dar13
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Posted: 13th Aug 2008 16:56
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you can only have one timer going in the engine at one time() and also it would just be simpler to do this in your script


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Posted: 13th Aug 2008 18:27
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<rant> I wish we had entity timers, specific to ONE entity, and not global. Using variables as timers sucks, because the faster your engine is, the faster the script processing is and the faster your variable timer is. And, you can't have an exact timer that runs for, say, 5.6 seconds, as you don't know for sure how long an INCVAR loop takes to process... </rant>

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Posted: 13th Aug 2008 21:42
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How about you name all of the alarm lights the SAME name (I've done this exact script before )... now have ONE script run the tiemrs and activate the lights on intervals to turn them all on and off at the same time?


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I'll let someone else have the pleasure of explaining that in more detail if necessary, just here to get the concept across.


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I need a sript that will turn a lamp on with a wall switch and how to turn a lamp on with a trigger zone

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Posted: 14th Aug 2008 08:41
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There is a video tutorial on the official FPSC website that tells you exactly how to do that. Might wanna check it out.


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Posted: 14th Aug 2008 10:49
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Quote: "How about you name all of the alarm lights the SAME name (I've done this exact script before )... now have ONE script run the tiemrs and activate the lights on intervals to turn them all on and off at the same time?"

right...so you could make a script for an object that, when the timer reaches a certain value, sets a global variable to 1, then resets the timer, then when the timer reaches that value again, sets that variable to 0, then resets the timer, and loops.
You then give all the lights a script so that when the variable is 1, they are on, and when it is 0 they are off.

is that kinda it?

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Posted: 14th Aug 2008 11:30
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I think he means something like:


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Posted: 14th Aug 2008 11:35 Edited at: 14th Aug 2008 12:04
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OK I've managed to sort it out.

thanks guys

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Posted: 16th Aug 2008 18:54
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Or if you have 1.09, you can use variables. Look at this.


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