Modifying the CZ2 lua

[Nezumi]

Tiger is using almost an exact copy of the CZ2 script, obviously, but there's one change I'm not sure how to make.

Tiger uses point_spotlights on the cap points instead of the env_beam/env_laser/whatever that cz2 uses. point_spotlights have a color input, but it doesn't work! So what I have set up now is a white point_spotlight shining into the sky at each cap point, and a blue and red one at each cap point that turn on and off depending on who controls it.

The blue and red spotlights turn on and off exactly as they should. The problem is getting the white spotlights to turn on and off at the right time. It's easy to turn all 5 back on when a fullcap happens, and turn each one off whenever someone caps a point, but what I'm not sure how to do is to turn off all the teamcolored spotlights and turnon all the neutral colored spotlights at points that were uncapped when a command center is blown.

So, for example, blue owns points 1 2 and 3, but then their command center gets detted by a red demo. Then the white 'neutral' point_spotlights would need to be turned on, and the blue spotlights turned off at those points.

(the spotlights are named cp1_spotlight, cp1_spotlight_red, cp1_spotlight_blue, cp2_spotlight, cp2_spotlight_red, cp2_spotlight_blue, etc.)

Can anyone help me out?

[Crazycarl]

I'm looking in ff_cz2.lua and there's code in there that should already do it. Look under the section called

-- command centers

There's a trigger for a detpack and all, and when it gets triggered, it loops through an array called command_points. It checks the team that controls each point against the team that owns the command center. If they are the same, it calls the function ChangeControllingTeam on the command point

Each cp takes care of it's own shit; and it knows what entities to target by making a string out of its number and the color of the team that owns it (it gets this stuff from the a table called team_info). The only thing you should have to change is just below the line
function base_cp_trigger:ChangeControllingTeam( new_controlling_team )

Find the OutputEvent stuff and change it to work on spotlights instead of lights/beams. I hesitate to give you instructions because I don't know what you've changed so far. Because you say you've got it halfway working.

I think you're going to want to change the name of your white lights to "cp1_spotlight_neutral" because that seems to be the way cz2 does it.

[Nezumi]

Haha, now that you mention it, I think I see in the lua where that output is fired. I think all I had to do was, as you say, change the neutral spotlight's name have a _neutral on it and it would work without having to change the LUA.

Rofl, I'm gonna be pissed if that's all I had to do.

Edit: Well fuck me, it worked. Tiger might be out day after tomorow. Depends on how much I can get done at a friends house tonight!

[trepid_jon]

Nice, Nezumi.

Cool to see people figuring out the crazy cz2 lua. Some wild shit going on inside it...

[greenday5494]

didnt you make it? lol