How to get damagetile working on plate press

[Xzalander]

Do we have a working example of

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damageTile(level, x, y, direction, flags, damageType, power)

Floating around here anywhere? I'm mostly confused with how to utilise it.

This is what I have at the moment, with the intention of essentially making a kill tile triggered by a hidden plate.

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function rhymeend()
 damageTile(5, 8, 29, 1, 6, physical, 999)
 hudPrint("Text redacted cause spoilers.")

end

It compiles and previews fine but crashes when the plate is triggered. "Bad argument #6 to 'damagetile' (String expect, got nil)"
I'm expecting that to mean that there's something wrong with the way I've written the parameters for the damage effect?

[antti]

The damagetype is expected to be a string, eg. "physical" instead of physical.

[Xzalander]

Ah. Its that again. Sorry for these silly mistakes

[Montis]

If you want to make it more versatile you could use party.x, party.y and party.level. Then you could link this script to multiple pressure plates that all kill the party when stepped on. Just make sure that they can be only triggered by the party, else a wandering monster or a randomly thrown rock might kill the party on accident

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damageTile(party.level, party.x, party.y, party.facing, 128, "physical", 9001)

[Xzalander]

Ooh thanks Montis, that makes it much more simplified.

[Komag]

nice one, I added it to the script repository