Getting tie fighters to shoot(or throw bombs like jk1)

[dimi30]

I'm using a script that makes tie fighters fly over the player when he is in a building's roof. Now my question is this: Is it possible to make this tie fighters shoot(or throw bombs like jk1) whenever they are passing over the player? In jk1 it was done via cogs which do not exist in jkII but there must be a way to do it(via scripting probably?).

[idontlikegeorge]

hmm. thatd be cool. hmm.

[dimi30]

bump

[Gohan_Trunksss]

Not sure if this is possible for your idea, but there is some entity that fires blaster bullets when triggerd. I think you might be able to place the trigger in the path of fighter and when the fighter flyes threw the trigger it shoots the blaster bullets to where its positioned, or you can use the func_timer and have the bullets fire when the fighters fly past. thats all i can come up with sorry.

[dimi30]

Well about the trigger thats not a bad idea but how will I get the tie fighters to trigger it if they are not NPCs nor the player. The func timer may work I'll try it out later.

[Gohan_Trunksss]

yea im not sure if the fighter can trigger it, but the func_timer should work if u spen time to perfect the timeing of when the fighter passes by good luck

[dimi30]

Well a new problem has arisen now. How can I make it shoot at the player. I tried using "kyle" as the target but I won't shoot at all. Isn't "kyle" the player's name ingame?

[Gohan_Trunksss]

sorry i dont know that much all i know is u can set func_time to shoot at a targeted spot for whatever time u set it too, mabe someone else knows? hope ya get it working dude cuz your map sounds good

[dimi30]

Well thx about the map(even though it may not be as good as it sounds cos as it is now it lacks detail a lot). Well back to the topic. One more thx about the idea of the func_timer. Now to the point of this reply . BUMP

[~Rebel_Monkey~]

what about the ?imperial rifle?, it shoots bomb-looking things with the secondary mode. you probably could use the .efx file.

 

 

you know, its this: gun...

[Gohan_Trunksss]

yea thats true i forgot about that gun.

[dimi30]

Well anyway the problem is now differend. How will I get it to be targeted to the player.

[Darth Link]

make a target position on the roof and make the tie shoot at the target.hmm...then it wont work with the timer....or will it?o well i dont really know what im talkin about...

[Gohan_Trunksss]

you use the func_timer to time when the effect will happen....for example the fighter passes by a certain roof top every 2 min. so he will set the fun_time to tell the effect shoot here every 2 min.

[dimi30]

Darth Link I want the fighter to attack the player not a standing target position.

 

Gohan I assume u were talking to Darth Link,right?

[Gohan_Trunksss]

yup was explaining about the func_timer, also not that u say attacks the player..... there might be a scrit that makes it target a player but if not it will only shoot at a certain target if the roof is small enough then that blast should be good just to aim at the roof with a target_position but if the blast radius is too small you can have the fighter release 2 plasma bomb things at once so it covers more of a radius. or even 4-5 bombs that come out looking as one bomb but while in air comeing down it splits into the 4-5 bomb and hit the whole roof dont ask me how im comeing up with this i just type as i think .

[Joben]

In JK1 that scene fairly early on where the TIE Bomber attacking you on the roof:

 

I wasnt shure but at the time i got the impression taht the bomber had

several possible bombing runs and one of them would be triggered when

you walked into its hit area.

 

Even if that isnt how it worked that might be a way to do it.

Have a big trigger the player can walk into. the shots wont actualy

be at him but they will apear to be since they are shooting at the place he is...

[idontlikegeorge]

best way i can see to do it

[Gohan_Trunksss]

that trigger sounds like a good idea, i like my idea about the 4-5 bombs looking like one at first but then splitting into the big bomb that would be kool to see might lag the game though too from the entitys all acting at the same time.

[patchx]

i dont know if this helps,

 

but i made a tie fighter that was a func_train and had a certain pathcorner target an fx_runner so that when the func_train reached the path corner it automatically fired a blaster shot at a target

 

i think you could target the fx_runner at the player, but maybe not

the target might have to be stationary i dunno

 

my tie fired at an x-wing that then crashed but it was all scripted, so the point that was being fired at never changed

 

if u cant target the player make the entire fly-by sequence of events targetted by the player crossing a trigger brush and target near the trigger brush

 

then make other trigger brushes that when crossed would disable the effects runner and target entities and enable a different set that were aimed at that trigger brush

[Leslie Judge]

And what if you use that target entity to fire to, but move it with a script near to the player. I don't know, but there should be a way to get the player's coordinates, and move something there. So, if you put a trigger at the beginning of the shooting scene, wich will start the TIE's script, and the target's script?

[~Rebel_Monkey~]

for the fx_runner, use the repeater/concussion fxFile. It SHOULD work...

[Gohan_Trunksss]

dont u also have to add in the damage command so it deals damage to the player or does it automaticaly deal damage?

[~Rebel_Monkey~]

you'll have to add it, im afraid. ;