Is this possible? Capturing a thrown flag

Tsukasa · 07-23-2008, 03:10 AM

I want to get the ball to capture itself if thrown on the cap point (eg shooting the ball). Obviously in the drop function you'd grab the player id and put that to a global variable, and thus can figure out which team threw it and such.

The problem is, there is no IsInfoScript check. Is there a way of doing this that i'm not seeing, or is this something that needs to be added to FF?

**Dexter** · 07-23-2008, 06:25 AM

I think you might be able to do it with basecap : ontrigger. remove the player checks like

Code:

if IsPlayer( trigger_entity ) then
..

and so on and check if its a flag, and replace all the player checks with your global of whoever punted it, that mighttt work. You'd probably have to change the flag's touchflags and touch too. It'd probably be a performance risk with all those touch calls. Maybe if there is a touch bitfield for info scripts..

**squeek.** · 07-23-2008, 06:30 AM

No, it's not possible AFAIK.

Tsukasa · 07-23-2008, 11:20 AM

put it on the lua wishlist?

**squeek.** · 07-24-2008, 12:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tsukasa

put it on the lua wishlist?

It's on there.

pF · 07-27-2008, 04:29 AM

That'd be hella cool, even as an addition to regular gameplay (after balancing..)

07-23-2008, 03:10 AM	#1
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07-23-2008, 06:25 AM	#2
Dexter internet user Fortress Forever Staff Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts Rated Helpful 42 Times	I think you might be able to do it with basecap : ontrigger. remove the player checks like Code: if IsPlayer( trigger_entity ) then .. and so on and check if its a flag, and replace all the player checks with your global of whoever punted it, that mighttt work. You'd probably have to change the flag's touchflags and touch too. It'd probably be a performance risk with all those touch calls. Maybe if there is a touch bitfield for info scripts.. __________________ 9:17 PM - DEXTER: can you teach me how to play o 9:17 PM - squeek.: you jump a lot 9:18 PM - squeek.: and do sweet moves 8:55 PM - FDA: fart in you fridge and blame it on wild animals

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