What I'm trying to do is when you walk under a bridge a car will fall off the other side and explode on impact. I placed the car in the air and set its strength to one and made it explodable but when I test it out it doesn't explode. Does anybody know how I can get it to blow up?

That may take a little scripting ....
Explodable objects do not blow up on impact at this time

Hey, mguy1122

This script might help.

Place an entity at the impact point and give it this script. Set this entity to dynamic, explodeable and give it a low strength value.
Note: Make sure there is no other entities within the range as they will trigger the event as well.

EDITED:

very cool script, and very useful. thank you.

You don't need to define a,b,v and e (quite surprised it's not causing issues actually)
Also you have defined distx etc twice - you don't need the first ones.

This will also only work for the first 5 models placed in the editor and you will need to adjust the for loop if you have more objects (I'm sure you know this but you didn't mention it)
Specifically the line
For a =1,5 do

Not being picky, just trying to reduce the possible issues that may arise

For a clean script I would remove any unused local variables. Thanks for the script by the way I'll give it a try when I finish work.

Thanks smallg,
That's not being picky at all.
I always appreciate the help and advice you give me. It helps me learn..
I copied and pasted the function/s from another scripts I done.
I didn't pick up on the double declare.. cheers

Ill make the changes you suggested and repost it. Can you check it out for me as well, please..

Thankyou..

Edit.. Bored of the Rings I updated the original script to take out the double declares, cheers..

Thanks for the script perelect! I am having a problem getting it to work though but I see people above got it working so I must be missing something. I set it to dynamic, made it Explodable and gave it a low strength value but still no explosion. Here's a picture of the settings with the test car if you or anybody could tell me what I'm doing wrong, thanks

i think the problem is that this script kinda simulates something falling onto the car rather than the car falling to the ground
what you would need to do is set an invisible object at the ground where the car will land and give that the script and make it explodeable etc (and leave the car as dynamic & explodable but without the script - so it will fall)

p.s. you dont need to set both entities to 0 hp, any 1 explosion will automatically make other nearby objects that are explodeable explode


Or set a script that determines when the car reaches the ground height and make it explode

if g_Entity[e]['y'] < 610 then
SetEntityHealth(e,0)
end

Thanks smallg! That made it work

Its good to see that you worked it out. Thanks smallg.. My original post was rushed while waiting for a taxi to arrive.
You need to place an entity (like a rock, landmine, etc) on the ground where the car lands and put the entityinarea.lua in this entity.
Once the car falls onto this entity, that is on the ground, it works.
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Here is another script that will be more useful.

This one..
Detects the distance between entities and the events are only triggered by a selected entity name that comes within range.
So you can now have other entities within the DetectionRange of the impact point.(this is much more useful)

So place the..
default_name.lua script in the entity/s that you want to trigger the event/s, (ie: the car) and name the entity/s "BlowMeUp" in its properties window.(without quotes) and set this entity to dynamic and explodeable.
Note: Place the name BlowMeUp in the triggerzones, If Used section and set the car's SpawnatStart to NO, if you are spawning the above entity/s from a triggerzone action.

Place the..
nameinarea.lua script in the entity at the impact point and set this entity to dynamic and explodeable.
In the attached picture the nameinarea.lua script is in the landmine and the truck and the box are within the DetectionRange. (just for reference)




In action in a testmap


Enjoy.

Thanks perelect for taking your time to make this, it's what I needed. I found with the first script since other objects made it explode is quite useful for making random explosions. I put down the exploding box attached to a trigger zone and put a bunch of rubble around it so when you walk by they would all blow up and scatter which was actually another effect I was going for so it works out quite nice.

Thanks guys this will be useful indeed.