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[Pompidom]

And I can see everyone's pictures just fine by default without doing anything on Firefox 65.0.2, IE and chrome.
So it's not the link.

[NolanDaneworth]

Anyway, thx everyone for involvement. Another mystery of editor solved. Tho kinda suprised it wasn't discovered earlier, could've saved some nerves.

[Killcannon]

Back on topic... I need another smart answer for one of my stupid questions.

How would you have a monster die by having an object be in the square/space that they are occupying? I want to have the players push a movable block onto a boss in order to kill the boss. (I'll worry about figuring out how to get the boss in the needed square later) I was thinking a floor trigger to activate when both the boss and the block were in the same spot, but I'm unsure of the interaction of a movable block and NPC.

So my initial testing has shown this will be harder than I initially thought. The bloody thing floats!



So I think the first order of business is figuring out how to have gravity apply so it falls. Currently the only thing under it is the pushable_block_floor set at height 0. I tried deactivating that and it doesn't fall. Is it even possible to have objects fall?

[Isaac]

Using the tiledamager function is one way to kill a monster on a certain square. But if you know exactly when the monster is on the correct tile, then you can just call its die() method. Also: die(true) awards XP to the party.

*It is technically possible to make it fall by adding a gravity component, but the delay ruins the illusion. You might have better results with a custom animation, made using Blender.

[Pompidom]

Experimenting with these blocks in my mod made me come up with some interesting concepts.

The first thing to bear in mind if you're gonna build a puzzle like that is to come up with a way to prevent people from jumping with the party on the boss monster making this entire endeavour futile. So it's gonna be harder to pull it off creating something like this.
And you will probably have to rebuild your arena.

Now the pushable blue block floors can be placed anywhere under the blocks. You can place them at -7 height and the pushable blocks will still work at height 0 or 1 This way you can push the block everywhere in activated form without having to deal/look at blue floor lights.

Same for the orange trigger spots.

The orange trigger spots have a floortrigger component "TriggeredByMonster"
So basically you push the activated hovering block where you pushed it now hovering still in activated form on height 1

As soon the monster walks under it, the monster itself will trigger the orange floortrigger and the block will deactivate.

Now there is 2 ways to proceed. If anyone can make a custom block with an additional gravity component that's disabled by default.
You call a delayed call that the monster dies at the same time the gravity component of the block is activated. This way the ruined illusion like Isaac mentioned can be mitigated. They're magic blocks anyways The block deactivates, the lights go out, the block loses its "magic" and then it falls.
Pushing a deactivated block that probably weighs a few ton isn't realistic at all

Or at the moment the downward momentum of the block deactivating animation, just call in monster.die
and then spawn a block on height 0 while making the block on height 1 invisible/destroy

Another alternative is to simply build an arena where you move the blocks around on height 0 trapping the boss while it's standing on some furnace floor grating that occassionally spawns fire or spawns fire with the press of a button when all blocks are at the designated tile. This will make the boss fight slightly more interesting as you have to dance around the arena getting the blocks in the right position and then lure it in before moving the last blocks in place.

[NolanDaneworth]

And i have my own question again.
Is there a way to script floor, that whenever party stays on it - no magic can be used ?
It really hurts to not know lua, because so many ideas, so little capabilities.

As in references, i only see .onCastSpell, but how to write the "fizzle" part ?

[Zo Kath Ra]

As in references, i only see .onCastSpell, but how to write the "fizzle" part ?

viewtopic.php?p=119265#p119265

[NolanDaneworth]

As in references, i only see .onCastSpell, but how to write the "fizzle" part ?

viewtopic.php?p=119265#p119265

thank you, gotta experiment now

[Zo Kath Ra]

thank you, gotta experiment now

Now I wish i'd provided a bad solution, because then Isaac would've posted a perfect one

[NolanDaneworth]

thank you, gotta experiment now

Now I wish i'd provided a bad solution, because then Isaac would've posted a perfect one

i wish i knew what im doing wrong, cuz i already managed to crash editor 4 times