Basically, I'm creating the Vita-Chambers from Bioshock. I've got a suitable model, I just need a script that will heal the player a few points when they enter (Or activate) the chamber and then shut the chamber down. Is this possible? Could I just pull the script from Zeta?

Thanks in advance! ^_^

I dont think this would be too hard. If you want it to happen when the player walks into the chamber then you could use a Trigger. If you want the player to activate something you could use a script with an "OnActivate" condition. Unfortunatly other than that I cant help you. I havnt done anything like this before. Sorry.

Here is some basic template. replace < > with actual editor id and you should be okay.

scn vitaChamberScript   short usedOnce   Begin OnActivate Player  ;** Change to OnTriggerEnter Player if you are using trigger instead of activation approach.     if usedOnce == 0         if Player.GetHealthPercentage < 1.0 ;*** If Player has less than 100% health.              set usedOnce to 1 ;**** Once it is used, it is no longer usable.              Player.RestoreAV Health (20 + GetRandomPercent % 30) ;*** Heal random amount 20-50 HP.                         imod  ;*** if you want to make it similar to one from Zeta.                                                       ;*** This is a visual effect that makes screen to get blur with color.              showMessage ; **** pop the message that player is healed.         else              showMessage  ;**** pop the message if player already has 100% health.          endif       endif    end

That's perfect! Works great too! Thanks a bunch! ^_^

Okay, so I thought it worked but it actually didn't. :S

I'm getting an error "SCRIPTS: 'VitaChamberScript', Line 8, Missing parameter Amount. Compiled script not saved!

Here's the script:

scn VitaChamberScript     short usedOnce    Begin OnTriggerEnter Player  ;** Change to OnTriggerEnter Player if you are using trigger instead of activation approach.      if usedOnce == 0          if Player.GetHealthPercentage < 1.0 ;*** If Player has less than 100% health.               set usedOnce to 1 ;**** Once it is used, it is no longer usable.               Player.RestoreAV Health (20 + GetRandomPercent % 30) ;*** Heal random amount 20-50 HP.                          imod CGCameraFlashISFX ;*** if you want to make it similar to one from Zeta.                                                        ;*** This is a visual effect that makes screen to get blur with color.               showMessage ; **** pop the message that player is healed.          else               showMessage  ;**** pop the message if player already has 100% health.           endif        endif     end

Line 8 is this line: "Player.RestoreAV Health (20 + GetRandomPercent % 30) ;*** Heal random amount 20-50 HP.". What's wrong with it?

1) try another variable to deal with 20-50 heal amount.

2) you have to create messages in Misc -> Messages and use that editor id instead of

scn VitaChamberScript     short usedOnce    short healAmount   Begin OnTriggerEnter Player  ;** Change to OnTriggerEnter Player if you are using trigger instead of activation approach.      if usedOnce == 0          if Player.GetHealthPercentage < 1.0 ;*** If Player has less than 100% health.               set usedOnce to  ;**** Once it is used, it is no longer usable.               set healAmount to (GetRandomPercent % 30) ; 0 to 29              Player.RestoreAV Health (healAmount + 20) ;*** Heal random amount 20-49 HP.                          imod CGCameraFlashISFX ;*** if you want to make it similar to one from Zeta.                                                        ;*** This is a visual effect that makes screen to get blur with color.               showMessage ; **** pop the message that player is healed.          else               showMessage  ;**** pop the message if player already has 100% health.           endif        endif     end

Thanks for the message thing, I thought it looked a bit odd.

I'm still getting the "Missing Parameter Amount" on line 10:

Player.RestoreAV Health (healAmount + 20) ;*** Heal random amount 20-49 HP.

When I remove the brackets I get "Expected end of line".

The geck scripting language is not a real programming language. You cannot use expressions as arguments to functions. Try this:

set healamount to (GetRandomPercent % 30) + 20
player.restoreav health healamount

Are you sure that you want "if Player.GetHealthPercentage < 1.0"? If it is a percentage, you may want to compare against 100 not 1.

GetHealthPercentage returns 0-1

set HealAmount to 20 + GetRandomPercent * 30 / 100

Try that one, let me know how it turns out.


- Ark

http://geck.gamesas.com/index.php/GetRandomPercent returns 0-99. Multiplying by 30 is probably not correct. http://geck.gamesas.com/index.php/GetHealthPercentage does not return 0-99 as pointed out by rickerhk. The functions are not named consistently.