Grimrock

zimberzimber wrote:I don't know why the script is not triggering for you. Try adding a few print lines to see if it reaches a certain point and stop.
Also make sure you're spawning them on the correct level, because right now they spawn on the first level.

I also don't see a reason to spawn a lot of explosions on on tile. If you just want it to deal a lot of damage, set the tile damager power to a higher value.

And are you asking for help implementing what you're going for?

Isaac wrote:Is it at all possible that the plate isn't calling the script?
What happens when you trigger the script via console?

Killcannon wrote: Interesting idea, what I did was added a hudPrint("Working") to the line to see if the script was indeed triggering at all, and for good measure I set it to trigger only once. Here's the thing that happened. It spawned dialog multiple times in the first activation as if it was running a multiple times within a millisecond time frame instead of running just once. To make sure I added additional hudprints to see if it was indeed looping and it is. So for some reason triggering this script once is causing it to run multiple times. Or at least the hudPrint portion of it until the flag to turn off the timer kicks in. How many times I have no idea due to the 5 line limit of hudPrint. I'll try a simple print to the console next though.

Killcannon wrote: I'm not sure how to activate the script from the console in the editor.... but I'm becoming more and more convinced that this has to do more with the dungeon itself and less the script. Perhaps my dungeon file has become corrupted?

scriptName.script.functionYouWanaActivate(arg1, arg2, ....)

akroma222 wrote: I always do this (print "YES 1" .... "YES 2" etc to console) to slowly check that a script is doing what I need it to, line by line
I usually try to print any relevant arguments/ variables/ data etc too

Isaac wrote:3.75 times?

** Where did you add the print statements?

function frostexplosion()

local fmax = 3

	for x = -fmax,fmax do
	for y = -fmax,fmax do
		if ( (x ~= 0) or (y ~= 0) ) then
			spawn("lightning_bolt_blast", 1, 25 + x, 7 + y, 0, 1) print("Yes 1")
			spawn("lightning_bolt_blast", 1, 25 + x - 1, 7 + y - 1, 0, 1) print("Yes 2")
			spawn("lightning_bolt_blast", 1, 25 + x - 2, 7 + y - 2, 0, 1) print("Yes 3")
			spawn("lightning_bolt_blast", 1, 25, 7, 0, 1) print("Yes 4")
			end
		end
	end
end

Isaac wrote:if fmax == 3, the x loop runs eight times, and the y loop runs forty-nine times; but the function is only called once.

* I had wondered (at first) if you had accidentally placed some copies of the floor_trigger on the same tile;
and had wondered if you had accidentally unchecked 'triggered by party', for when it ran in one dungeon, but not in the other.

Isaac wrote:The function is called once, but each pass through the x loop usually comes with a full pass through the y loop, [7 passes through the y loop, if fmax == 3].

Is this nested loop intended just for spawning a set number of lightning bolts in fixed positions?

**If so, there might be a simpler way to script it.

function frostexplosion()

	spawn("lightning_bolt_blast", 1, 22, 9, 0, 1) print("Yes 2")

end