I need some help on Lua code. There are 2 things:

Launch Pad

I just made an object with area that is supposed to launch items and/or actors at a certain speed and certain direction.


Code:
So the code would need to check if theres an actor/item inside its area and launch it at a predefined velocity and direction based on the angle of the "area object" which is an MOSR. Default launch direction would be up.




Teleporter

The teleporter is supposed to move a actor to any another teleporter on the map. Including itself (Incase its the only one, or youre just lucky to teleport nowhere ) When an actor enters a teleporter, it will teleport him after a 3 second delay. Another thing is, if there is someone already in a teleporter and someone from another teleporter was moved to this exact teleporter which is in use, it will instantly gib the actor (Telefrag).


Code:
The code would need to check if theres an actor within the area of the teleporter object and start a timer. After 3 seconds, the teleporter check for any other teleporter object in the scene and randomly move the actor to one of them.

If the actor leaves the area at any point before he is "teleported", everything will reset immediatly.

While another actor is being teleported, anyone who had teleported earlier and landed on that teleporter will be instantly gibbed. [optional]



Thanks in advance!

Launch pad:

Teleport:

This requires a line around the start of the .lua:

You also have to check all different areas to see if someone is in them.

You're also going to have to set areas manually in the scene code; you can't have placable bunkermodules or anything.

Depends on if nummy got his copy of the b23 beta.

You could also check if there are any actors within a small square area above an object called Telepad but that would require quite some code.

Keep in mind that its for B23 and it does NOT use scene areas. It uses a blank MOSRotating object instead which acts as the "node of actions" or an "area" in the module.

The MOSRotating has a blank sprite with the same size of that module so you could consider the MOSR being the "area"

Anyways TLB did some code for another... object which will be available in B23 officially. I'm fairly sure some of this code could be used to make the systems work in the way I intended them.

Heres the Lua code: http://rafb.net/p/rNrLns78.html

Try using that to make the launcher/teleporter code. Please

I'll give it a shot:
Launch Pad:

Depending on how Data is messing with loading the lua scripts, you should be able to do something like



Which should put the table "_teleporters" into the global lua context. That way you will be able to have a list of all the available teleporters from any object. Then you could just go through the list of teleporters until you get to the one you're looking for(maybe just the one after the current teleporter) and sets the object to be teleported's position to the new teleporter position.



EDIT: Also the three second delay can be done pretty easily by using timer objects and a boolean that gets set when an actor first enters the area.

Also, make Data allow us to add lua functions to the object.

I.E.

How do I do that? I know next to nothing on how Lua works. :p




Those already exist. (In B23, that is.)
Check the link I posted: http://rafb.net/p/rNrLns78.html

That is an actual working object in B23 made by TheLastBanana.
I though it could be used to build the launcher.

I'll try out mail2345's code, I hope it works.

Conveyor belts?

Wrong. Launch pad and a teleporter.

Numgun, I think Roon3 means the script you posted that I made
If that's the case, yes.
Conveyor belts.
Also, those scripts aren't entirely finished. The ones you have right now will crash the game if it is restarted when any actors are still in play. Oh well

I already knew about the create, update, destroy ones, I was just wondering about the ability to add data to the objects themselves. Because as it is right now in B22, everything gets reset. If you can do the "self.speed" bit, it shouldn't be a problem. (That doesn't work in B22)

Yep, you can declare functions and variables within an object and they'll stay there. You just can't access them from other objects.

It works!!!



The launch pads are functional!
You can make hilarious a mercenary pinball with these! xD


The teleporter didnt work with the code Lord Tim suggested. I didnt get any errors, but the teleporters didnt teleport me anywhere. Would the script require that the teleporters were pre-placed on the scene?
Because I only tried them by putting them straight on the scene in skirmish.