Reality Factory

As I am very new to RF I am in need of help. I want to make a trigger to open a door when a pawn Dies. I have searched the forum and read Dan Valeo's book but am still confused. I am able to make a trigger open the door when the trigger is touched. But I want to trigger the door when a pawn dies. I have read the post on the subject and attempted to put in the ACTIVATETRIGGER("trig1") cammand in the DEATH routine But I keep getting the error "ACTIVATETRIGGER" not found. Do I need to define the trigger elsewhere in the script?

The command is called ActivateTrigger(), not ACTIVATETRIGGER(). There's a difference between a normal letter and a capital letter.

I have the correct spelling in the script itself, just caps in the post.

You are probably using the right command in the wrong level. RF script has two levels: High-level and Low-level. The latter is quite similar to C and execute the commands as frame loop, the former execute the list of commands as a task manager. The command names usually differ in the two levels. So I don't think ActivateTrigger exists in lowlevel, try SetEventState(your_trigger_name, true); if you are in lowlevel.
Are you in lowlevel? that's the question: your script starts highlevel and executes the orders before the pawn death. So before the last order, somewhere before, there should be a LowLevel(""); command to switch to lowlevel, otherwise you're still in highlevel.

ActivateTrigger is a LOW LEVEL command and does not exist in high level.

In the death routine replace the command
Remove(true);
with

LowLevel("operatetrig");

then add a new order

operatetrig[()
{
ActivateTrigger("trig1");
HighLevel("Death_2");
}]

then add another order

Death2[()
{
Remove(true);
}]

That should do the job for you

Yargh. I've asked this more than once of people, how do we know high level fom low level. I'm sorry, but federico's explanation doesn't really get it for me. Would someone please post a colored-up script showing low and high and denoting the point at which we can tell we have gone from high to low?

Thanks.

*whew* - I just had to get that out. Sorry.

Steven. I try to make low level orders start with small case ie blahblah[() and high level orders start with upper case ie Blahblah[() is sort of helps a bit. If thatss what you mean.

That's cool, but how do I know, if I'm fixing to use a command, whenther it's a high or low level. Say, if I have no example at hand?

Check it up in the doc's. A lot of commands are both high and low level these days anyway. All the commands are listed in the doc's under pawn scripting.

bernie wrote:Check it up in the doc's. A lot of commands are both high and low level these days anyway. All the commands are listed in the doc's under pawn scripting.

I just downloaded Dan's book as well. It's time I RTFM. . .I'd say.

Thanks bernie.

I agree with bernie about the use of capital letters while writing an highlevel order. Sorry about the wrong info I was sure that activatetrigger was only highlevel.
Anyway I would add that the use of SetEventState gives you more control on states and triggering...

Thanks guys
Using the LowLevel for the Trigger and HighLevel to remove the player worked for me.