Help with elevators...

Dac Vin · Post by **Dac Vin** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 7:47 pm

I'm trying to do an elevator that bring you down in a secret base (Beginning of my mapping try: It should start automatically and you cant use it) and now i need all the elevator sectors (more than one, because of the lighting involved) to move at the same time. But i cant figure how to do that; only the main sector go down with Elevator_LowertoNearest (probably because the rest stop on THAT sector). Anybody know how to do it?

Post by **Enjay** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 4:54 am

OK, not sure how you have set things up, and I can't remember how elevators work. I think they work by moving to other sectors - so they must be comparing their height with the other sectors. A bunch of sectors joined together may not be able to do this, so I would use a script to lower the floors and ceilings at the same time and simulate an elevator that way.

Dac Vin · Post by **Dac Vin** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 8:26 am

I thought that too. But when i try to use a FloorandCeiling tag, i get this error:

Function floorandceiling_lowertonearest is used but not defined

What does that mean?

Post by **Enjay** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 8:42 am

It means you have used an instruction that is not defined anywhere - in this case, because it does not exist. I'd use these:

Floor_LowerByValue (tag, speed, height)
Ceiling_LowerByValue (tag, speed, height)

and for going up...

Floor_RaiseByValue (tag, speed, height)
Ceiling_RaiseByValue (tag, speed, height)

or these (which I've never actually tried, but they should work)

FloorAndCeiling_LowerByValue (tag, speed, height)
FloorAndCeiling_RaiseByValue (tag, speed, height)

Stick any of them them in a script and specify how far you want the floor and ceiling to move. So, you're not moving to the nearest floor, or anything like that, you are moving the floor and ceiling by a predetermined number of units which you can set to be the same value as required to move to the nearest floor.

Nanami · Post by **Nanami** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 9:54 am

Oh, I had a really good example that I made with 4 floors "above" eachother that you can travel to... and it tells you what floor you're on and if somehow the elevator is on another floor there's a switch to return it... but the code is extremely messy, so I won't post it because it's just a big pile of garbage.

Dac Vin · Post by **Dac Vin** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 10:36 am

Oh, i was using a LowerToValue tag, instead of LowerByValue. Now it should work...

Hirogen2 · Post by **Hirogen2** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 3:12 pm

http://zdoom.org/files/examples/elevator.zip for the multi-floor elevator.