Walking Block

[O Ilusionista]

I want to make a enemy, which carries a shield, to be able to walk while blocking, taking no damage. You just can hit it when its not blocking (walking or not), ie its attacking me.

There is a way to do that?

 

[utunnels]

Maybe you can try:

  @cmd changeentityproperty getlocalvar("self") "aiflag" "blocking" 1

And this is the code to turn it off

  @cmd changeentityproperty getlocalvar("self") "aiflag" "blocking" 0

But it depends on how you want the shield to act. If you only want the walk animation to block, you need to turn on blocking in walk animation and turn off in other animations (usually idle, but you can try another if there's any loophole).

 

[ABK]

So is there any way to keep that flag only in this particular animation so when it goes to jump or some other anim it will switch itself back to default state? something like if current anim plays then flag is 1 and if doesnt play then flag is 0, so you dont have to include script in all other possible anims to turn that off.

 

[O Ilusionista]

Yes, I just want him to block on walk or idle. All other animations won't block

So I turn on the block on those animations by using
@cmd changeentityproperty getlocalvar("self") "aiflag" "blocking" 1

And turn off on all others, right?

 

[ABK]

yes but i dont think its necessary in fall and pain anims, i used this to disable grabbing  enemies when running like in cadillacs and dinos

 

[utunnels]

Or you can have it in entity header using @script tag. The code is executed before any @cmd.

@script
void e = getlocalvar("self");
int aid = getentityproperty(e, "animationid");
if(aid==openborconstant("ANI_IDLE") || aid==openborconstant("ANI_WALK"))
  changeentityproperty(e, "aiflag", "blocking", 1);
else
  changeentityproperty(e, "aiflag", "blocking", 0);
@end_script

 

[ABK]

this is nice, and useful for other stuff, i didnt knew you could do it like that

 

[msmalik681]

or another option maybe the sheild could be a binded object constantly blocking

that little code sounds very useful ut nice one

 

[O Ilusionista]

OpenBOR says
"Can't compile script"

I put the code at the header, near the palettes. Where is the right place?

 

[utunnels]

Oh, I made a typo, check it again.

 

[NickyP]

Or you can have it in entity header using @script tag. The code is executed before any @cmd.

@script
void e = getlocalvar("self");
int aid = getentityproperty(e, "animationid");
if(aid==openborconstant("ANI_IDLE") || aid==openborconstant("ANI_WALK"))
  changeentityproperty(e, "aiflag", "blocking", 1);
else
  changeentityproperty(e, "aiflag", "blocking", 0);
@end_script

Could you replace blocking with nopain, to make it so that some animations have super armor?

 

[Bloodbane]

You could just increase defense instead to achieve that.

 

[O Ilusionista]

i don't get an error report anymore, but the code isn't working.
I can hit the enemies which are intended to be blocking.

Here is the enemy http://www.sendspace.com/file/q2it72

 

[utunnels]

For types other than player you probably need to use nopassiveblock 1 in the header.

 

[O Ilusionista]

Thanks, now its working.

Besides its working against normal attacks. Projectiles (customknife) just ignore the block.

 

[utunnels]

Maybe your knife is too fast so it goes past the entity?

 

[O Ilusionista]

this is the code:

name beam
type none
shadow 0
nolife  1
speed  20
candamage enemy obstacle