scripted triggers and such

[Asnipe34]

I haven't noticed any scripted triggers in KF maps and I wondered if it's ok to use them? I mean I could put some in and then find they'll be crashing games, which I don't want.

I did a search on this site KF (of 365days) for 'scriptedtriggers', but no mention. (AI scripts, an adjunct, I'm not asking about because obviously 'zombie wave' is great.)

So I want to trigger emitters and in my research, everything points to using scripted triggers.

2nd. I'm animating textures for said emitter, and tex must have a black background for the mask, but I want to animate a solid black object. Is there a way around this other than using very dark blue? I tried different textures (black on white and varied the modulations' options, but the square outline of the texture (although it's see-through) still shows up.

Actually I did manage to animate with a nice dark blue, but then text turned light blue... Maybe I was just tired. I'll ask my daughter who has PSP experience, but she's said she's rusty on that so I'm not holding out for her advice. I searched the net as well, but +black +mask, +white, you may see that my searches aren't getting me into stuff I want to know

Hope you can help!

[manhunt0r]

well a custom trigger based on money amount worked perfectly well for me

class scoreTrigger extends Trigger

   placeable;





var bool built;

var(scoreTrigger) int price;

var name event;









function Touch(actor EventInstigator)

{

local Pawn temp;





if (EventInstigator.IsA('Pawn'))

{

temp=Pawn(EventInstigator);



     if (temp.Controller.IsA('KFPlayerController'))

   {

  if(temp.Controller.PlayerReplicationInfo.Score>=price&&!built)

{

temp.Controller.PlayerReplicationInfo.Score=temp.Controller.PlayerReplicationInfo.Score-price;

built=true;

TriggerEvent( Event, EventInstigator , temp );

Pawn(EventInstigator).ClientMessage( "moving done");

return;

}



if(temp.Controller.PlayerReplicationInfo.Score<price&&!built)

{

Pawn(EventInstigator).ClientMessage( "insuficient money, you stil need "@price-temp.Controller.PlayerReplicationInfo.Score@" pounds" );

}

else

{

     Pawn(EventInstigator).ClientMessage( "already built!" );

}

}

}

}


[Asnipe34]

"Custom trigger" I'm just getting the hang of scripted, but thanks for your insight!

On masked textures, my daughter suggested for my foreground I use very dark brown and that works well.