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Hi guys,
Is there away to remove a animated entity.
Example- I want an animated airplane to take off into the darkness and at a certain point disappear from the game.
I tried the hide entity script but you could still hear the airplane running even though it disappeared.
Didn't know if there was a script to remove both sound and the plane.
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Posted: 15th Dec 2018 06:18
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Once the object has reached the end of the script, You can insert a destry(e) statement, and that will remove the entity from the level permanently. That is provided you don't need to use this same entity again in the current level.
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Thanks, I will try that.
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Posted: 15th Dec 2018 11:53
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StopSound might also be useful.
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I tried to add the destroy function, then tried the stop sound function to the hide entity script and couldn't get neither of them to work with it.

I am very new to scripting and definitely need some help.

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Posted: 15th Dec 2018 18:12 Edited at: 15th Dec 2018 18:14
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How is the sound being played, is there a line LoopSound( e, 0 ) or similar?

If so the 0 part is the sound slot number so you would have to match that in the StopSound command, i.e. StopSound( e, 0 )


It's Destroy( e ) btw, Lua is case sensitive so make sure you have any commands exactly as shown in global.lua.
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I basically cut and pasted from the global lua file, I obviously did it wrong.

I'm still in the clueless stage with scripting , but you have to start somewhere.

this is what I did

-- LUA Script - precede every function and global member with lowercase name of script + '_main'

function hideentity_init(e)
end

function hideentity_main(e)
if g_Entity[e]['plrinzone']==1 then
Hide(1) then
stopsound (e,v)
end
end

The 1 is the animated airplane I was using from the Polaris pack I bought from the store.
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If '1' is indeed the entity id of the airplane then you would need StopSound( 1, 0 )

Assuming that the airplane uses sound slot 0, if you look at its script you should be able to determine if that is the case.

So you are then attaching this script to a zone and if the player enters the zone it triggers this script to hide the airplane?

If so add a Destroy( e ) after the StopSound line so that this script will not run again.


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Also / or Destroy(1)
To clarify Amen's point, the e in the brackets is a variable which stores the current entity running the script - as you are wanting it to effect another entity you replace e in any such commands to relate to the number of the desired entity (to make it easier you can store that number in a variable too).
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Everytime I add a stopsound or destroy line, it gives me a nil value error
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All I need the plane to do is dissapear completely from the game when I hit a triggerzone.
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Check the case, i.e. 'Destroy' and 'StopSound'.

A 'nil' error means Lua can't find something, so for example as there is no command called 'destroy' if you forget to capitalise the 'D' Lua will let you know.

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Yes !
It finally worked. Thanks for helping.

function hideentity2_init(e)
end

function hideentity2_main(e)
if g_Entity[e]['plrinzone']==1 then
Hide(1)
Destroy(1)
end
end

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