Thread: Multiplayer health via script

Hey,

Few Questions.

So you want the player to be standing inside a trigger ( I will call it square 1 ) and once inside, they will start healing? But you want it done in increments, so the longer the person is inside square1 they will be healed even more?
So for example:
Player standing inside of square 1.
< 5 seconds, heal at rate of 1 hp per second.
> 5 < 20, heal at rate of 10 hp per second.
etc.

Is that about right? for scenario 1.

Scenario 2 seems more simple, that you want the player to be in the trigger for a specific amount of time before being healed, and if they leave within a timeframe ( 10 seconds for example ), but they only recieve the health upon leaving the square?

I am a bit lost on the binding/glueing?

Here's what I came up with, pretty much a copy of the other thread (without crouching) that didn't work for me the first time around.
Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. lol

Code:

square1 local.player :
	$square1_trig nottriggerable
	local.player = parm.other
	local.player glue $square1_step
	$square1_step playsound square1sound
	while(local.player) {
	local.player heal 0.05
	wait 0.3
	}
	wait 12 // length of sound effect.
	local.player unglue $square1_step
	$square1_trig triggerable
end

As I said, I might drop the glue binding, but then the sound will continue. :/

Yeah, that script won't be good for what you want. It will continue trying to heal the player until they leave the game. You also don't want to have an arbitrary wait of '12' that only starts counting down AFTER the player has healed because this will make the trigger unresponsive for other players during that period.

What you want is something like this:

square1:
	local.player 	= parm.other
	local.trigger 	= self

	// if player is already healing or he's already at full health, don't do anything and end here
	if (local.player.healing || local.player.health == local.player.max_health) end

	// player is healing
	local.player.healing = 1
	local.player loopsound square1sound

	// start on these values
	local.healvalue 	= 0.01	// amount of health given each time
	local.healtime 		= 0		// time taken healing (starts at 0)
	local.healwait 		= 0.25	// amount of time to wait between heals
	local.healinc 		= 2.5 	// seconds to wait before increasing healing rate (this is for exponential healing)
	local.healmult 		= 2		// amount to multiply the previous healing rate (this is for exponential healing)

	// begin the heal
	while(1)
	{
		local.player heal local.healvalue
		wait local.healwait

		// stop healing if player is dead, or left game, or not touching trigger, or at full health
		if !(isAlive local.player) break
		if !(local.player isTouching local.trigger) break
		if !(local.player.health < local.player.max_health) break

		// increment the time spent healing
		local.healtime += local.healwait
		if (local.healtime >= local.healinc)
		{
			// player was healing long enough to increase healing amount
			local.healvalue = local.healvalue * local.healmult
			local.healtime = 0
		}
	}

	// healing has completed, if the player still exists then stop the sound and reset healing value
	if (local.player)
	{
		local.player stoploopsound
		local.player.healing = 0
	}
end

I went with example 1 (exponential healing). Needs a trigger_multiple. Bear in mind that you don't need this function copied for each square. Just point all your healing triggers to 'square1' (though 'healingsquare' would be a better name) and it will work fine. You can play around with the 5 values till you get something you're happy with.

Cheers Smithy ol' mate.
The binding was pissing me off. While "bind" didn't bind, "glue" didn't unglue. lol
I'll give your suggested script a go (with "healing_square" or perhaps just "healer") and I'm sure I'll be smiling again.
"square1" was just a space filler created by Purple for example purposes.

Dang, I have a lot of script that I've somehow stumbled through (trial and error) and I almost made it to the finish line without physical help.
This part of the script was a last minute inclusion / idea.


edit: It's perfect.
Thanks again Smithy.