Teleport Doesn't Work With OPEN/ENTER Scripts?

[ReX]

Here's what I'm trying to do:

1. I end one map with a fade-to-black
2. I want to start the next map from the fade-to black point. [No matter how much I try, I can't get the map to start from complete blackness. Therefore, I've resorted to the method in Item 3, below. And, no, it's not an option to set all sectors visible at the start to 0 light level.]
3. The player starts in a dummy sector consisting of black flats/textures and 0 light level (i.e., complete blackness).
4. After a brief HUD message, the start of music, and a small delay, the player needs to be teleported to the true start of the map.
5. Upon teleporting to the "true" start, the game fades out of black, and the player can commence playing.

Unfortunately, the teleport part of the instruction [refer to scripts below] is not working. I vaguely recall that I was trying to do something similar many years ago. At that time I believe I had to resort to a scrolling floor, a blocking line that was changed to non-blocking at the correct moment, and the player being carried by the scrolling floor across a teleporting line. Hacky, I know, which is why I was wondering if there is a more elegant way of achieving my objective. Thanks.

[And, yes, there is a map-spot with TID 10, and it's in a sector with tag = 40. I've tried it with both a map-spot and a teleport destination thing.]

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script 1 ENTER

{
	ACS_Execute (2, 0, 0, 0, 0);
}

//****
// Script 2: Intro to Xen & start music
//****

script 2 (void)

{
	FadeTo (0, 0, 0, 1.0, 0.0);				//Fades to black: 0 seconds
	delay (105);
	hudmessagebold (s:"Subject: Dr. Rolf Bellmer \n \n \n \nStatus: Imminent dissolution in Xen";
	HUDMSG_TYPEON, 0, CR_GRAY, 1.5, 0.4, 1.5, 0.05);
	delay(35*3);
	PlaySound(150, "19Xen", 5, 1.0, true, 0.0);		//TID 150, uses channel that no vanilla sound uses,
													//loops, and has no attenuation}
	delay(35*3);
	Teleport (10, 40, 0);
	delay (15);
	FadeTo (0, 0, 0, 0.0, 3.0);				//Fades out of black: 3 seconds
	delay (105);
}

[Graf Zahl]

Can't say what may be wrong, but one suggestion: Have you tried [wiki]TeleportOther[/wiki]?

[ReX]

Have you tried [wiki]TeleportOther[/wiki]?

I just tried it, and it doesn't work either.

[Gez]

Does it work if you puke script 2?

[ReX]

Does it work if you puke script 2?

The rest of the script works; it's just the teleporting that is borked.

[Gez]

[And, yes, there is a map-spot with TID 10, and it's in a sector with tag = 40. I've tried it with both a map-spot and a teleport destination thing.]

I missed that. For the record, you should only have tried with the teleport destination thing. There's a reason they exist.

[arookas]

I just tried the given scripts with various combinations of variables. Here's what I found:

• both tid and tag were set, map spot used: didn't teleport
• only tag was set, map spot used: didn't teleport
• only tid was set, map spot used: teleported
• both tid and tag were set, teleport destination used: teleported
• only tag was set, teleport destination used: teleported
• only tid was set, teleport destination used: teleported

It appears when tag is set, the actor has to be a teleport destination -- map spots simply aren't iterated. I would advise using a teleport destination, not using the tag parameter of the Teleport special, or using SetActorPosition to move the player to the map spot directly.

[Graf Zahl]

I missed that. For the record, you should only have tried with the teleport destination thing. There's a reason they exist.

Indeed. The reason being that teleporting to map spots is intentionally limited to the tid-only case, and the only reason that even exists is that Hexen screwed this up. To be honest, I would have guarded this option with 'if (originalHexen)' from the start. There have been far too many maps which had problems due to careless use of improper destination spots here.

I guess I will add this as an error message to developer mode so that it gets reported if it happens.

[ReX]

I just tried the given scripts with various combinations of variables... I would advise using a teleport destination, not using the tag parameter of the Teleport special ....

Arookas, thanks for systematically checking every combination. I used a teleport destination, removed the sector tag parameter, and it worked.

FYI, I had originally used this:

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	Teleport_NoFog (10, 1, 0);

where 10 is the TID of a teleport destination thing. [I'm not clear why I assigned the second parameter.] This didn't work, which is when I tried various alternatives.

All's well now, and thanks to everyone for their help.