ok, I made an animation of a snake and my objective is to hit him with my cane not shoot him.
I want ro make in my level that some bad guys you have to shoot and some you have to whack with the cain.

I already made an animation for my Moses character that Moses moves his arm with the cane to hit an enemy like zelda but how do I implement that when the enemy gets hit with my animation when I press ctrl he dissapears ?

I know this is a hard code I think, but if you dont know do you have a tutorial that could expain this.

-Get the vertex numbers of a vertex in the top of the cane and one of the botom of the cane(Use MED)
-While the animation is playing, get the vertex world-position with vec_for_vertex
-c_trace from botom vertex to top vertex
-if you hit an entity (if(you != null))
-ent_remove(you)

Thats it

you might add the check if the you is a snake (just check a certain flag or skill which is unique for a snake entity) or otherwise you will remove all grass sprites/models or whatever you are walking through/over, because of his magic cane

Oh yes ofcourse >.< forgot that.

Just put my.skill55 = 1234; in the snake's action and then check if you.skill55 == 1234 -> ent_remove(you);

thanks all

I got the vertex numbers for the top and bottom of the cane
top 528.5 16.2 452.9
bottom 518.5 16.2 332.9

Now I am kinda a noob with scripting I know very little.

so do I make like a variable for the vertexes ?
and what should I put in the action snake and action player ?

action snake
{
my.skill55=1234;
//rest of the code
}

action player move
{
if(key_ctrl)
{
whack_percent=(whack_percent+5*time)%100;
ent_animate(me,"whack",whack_percent,ANM_CYCLE);
my.enable_impact=on;
my.enable_entity=on; (if(you !=null))
if(you.skill55==1234
{
ent_remove(you)
}
}
}

Is it something like this although I doubt it.
I am sorry I am just not to skill with c.
and how would I implement the c_trace ?

Those numbers look like x,y,z positions of the top and bottom of your cane. What you need are the vertex numbers; They can be found if you switch display to vertex and use select on them, in order to get the proper vertex number(s).




All the best,

Dusty

ok thanks dusty I found out my vertex number for the cane it's #225

as Excessus described: you need TWO vertex numbers, one of a vertex at the top of the cane and one at the bottom of it.

Code:

---

var whacking = 0; //at the top of your script

//... in your players while loop:
if(key_ctrl || whack_percent)
{
	whack_percent=(whack_percent+5*time)%100;
	ent_animate(me,"whack",whack_percent,ANM_CYCLE);
	
	var trace_from[3]; var trace_to[3];
	vec_for_vertex(trace_from,player,200); //replace 200 by your number
	vec_for_vertex(trace_to,player,300); //replace 300 by your number
	
	c_trace(trace_from,trace_to,ignore_me+ignore_passable);
	if(you != null && you.skill55==1234)
	{
		ent_remove(you)
	}
}

---

I doubt this will work, its just some pseudo code to give you an idea about trace.
By the way: Are you using A5 or A6? (the script above is written for A6)

ok thank you for teaching me this I will work with that code.
I use A6

Thunder it says empty pointer here in an error

if(you != null && you.skill55==1234)

How would I go about to fix that ?