Make a switch desapear...

[Ravick]

Hi there,

So, I have a Switch that is actually a mid texture in a double sided wall. When player presses "use" at it, it calls a script that, among other things, make the texture of the switch itself desappear using:

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SetLineTexture(230, SIDE_FRONT, TEXTURE_MIDDLE, "-");

It works, but, because of the way the swithce's textures works, it comes to appear again in less then a second.

Of course, I can call one or more Delay function at the script and keep repeating the command, making it re-desappear. But I wonder if would it be a 'legit' way of doing this. (?)

Thanks in advanced.

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

There are some workarounds I can think of. Like, you could place a line very close to the switch, without any textures, and then add a function into the script that gives this line a texture which would just cover the while thing. Kind of a lazy method, I guess.

[Nevander]

Perhaps a better solution would be to set the line's middle vertical offset to something ridiculous using [wiki]Line_SetTextureOffset[/wiki] so it goes off the visible area and then don't wrap the texture. The offset should stay and the texture "disappears." This is a theory though, but I don't see why it wouldn't work in any scenario as long as the offset is far enough.

[Jimmy]

[wiki]TranslucentLine[/wiki]?

[cocka]

I would say when you want the switch to disappear just use setlinespecial at the same time and delete its special. Then when you need it again just reset the line special again.

[Ravick]

Thanks for the very good ideas, folks!

[Graf Zahl]

If you want to manipulate the texture, use a one-time switch which doesn't start a thinker on the texture.
And if you need to reset it, use setlinespecial and setlinetexture to restore everything.