Thing_Move not working

4 hours ago, PepsiBepsi said:

I've been trying to get a script to teleport the player to a map spot after a certain amount of time. I've tried Teleport, TeleportOther, TeleportInSector, TeleportNoFog, and now  finally Thing_Move and nothing is working. 

Funny thing, I had the SAME problem 12 hours ago. And I've fixed it.

THE MAIN REASON WHY YOUR SCRIPT IS NOT WORKING - BECAUSE ACS IS FREAKING STUPID. I'll explain:

You're using script OPEN, so that means, that your player must be teleported after the start of the map. Somehow ZDoom/GZDoom doesn't understand Teleport/TeleportOther for the OPENed scripts. You should abuse the ACS mechanics to make them work.

Just make ANOTHER script, for example - "Script 3 (Void)" with TeleportOther and in "Script 2 OPEN" type "ACS_Execute (3, 1);". And this will work. Heh.

Full list of steps here:

1) Place TELEPORT DESTINATION (doom builder id 14) instead of Map Spot (doom builder id 9001)

2) Be sure that you make a sector around this teleport destination (like square teleport pad).

3) Make this sector tagged, make this teleport destination tagged too (give to them same id)

4) Make PlayerStart thing tagged too!

5) In ACS write this:

script 2 OPEN
{
	Delay(70);
	ACS_Execute (3, 2); //3 means "Script 3", 2 means "Map02". If you are making Map09 - make (3, 9).
}

script 3 (void)
{
	TeleportOther(7, 4, 1); // 7 is the tid of the Player, 4 is a Teleport Destination Thing+Sector TAG, 1 is Enable Green Teleport Fog
}

This MUST work in GZDoom 2.4.0, UDMF map format.

P.S.: Thanks to the Graf Zahl, ACS is weird as ████. Damn it. Sometimes ACS scripting is too nervous.

If you need to teleport the player, you must consider that with Teleport will work if you set the TID to 0 for the player. Like this:

script 2 OPEN

{

      Delay(70);

      Teleport(0,4,0);

}

I just tested the script and it's Teleport(4,0,0);........not (0,4,0);

The first argument is the TID of the mapspot, second argument is the sector tag............some mistakes lol

Giving players TIDs: https://zdoom.org/wiki/About_Multiplayer,_Scripts,_and_TIDs

8 hours ago, PepsiBepsi said:

nope, isn't working for me for some reason :(

 

script 2 OPEN
{
    Delay(70);
    Teleport(0, 4, 0); 
}

 

It doesn't work because OPEN does not have an activator. For that you'll need to use ENTER (note that this will run for every player in a multiplayer game!).  Then this will work:
 

script 2 OPEN
{
    Delay(70);
    Teleport(4, 0, 0); 
}

But depending on what you want to do later assigning a TID as @Empyre said will be a better solution.

I just thought of an idea: Instead of OPEN, make the script ENTER, so the activator will be the player instead of the world and you can use 0 (which means the activator of the script) as the TID, then use Teleport as @PepsiBepsi suggested 13 hours ago (as of when I type this).

Oh, Now, I notice that this is sort of what @boris suggested 5 hours ago.

I'm no ACS expert, but are you sure 7 isn't the TID of the Player 1 Start? I'm not sure what the process is for assigning a TID to the player actor itself.

5 minutes ago, Bauul said:

I'm no ACS expert, but are you sure 7 isn't the TID of the Player 1 Start? I'm not sure what the process is for assigning a TID to the player actor itself.

7 is the tid of Player 1 start, should I be tagging something else?

Also, Teleport_Other work for monsters and other things, not for the player.

2 minutes ago, leodoom85 said:

If you need to teleport the player, you must consider that with Teleport will work if you set the TID to 0 for the player. Like this:

 

script 2 OPEN

{

      Delay(70);

      Teleport(0,4,0);

}

nope, isn't working for me for some reason :(

script 2 OPEN
{
    Delay(70);
    Teleport(0, 4, 0); 
}

By the power of the Golden Shovel of Necromancy!

SCRIPT "MovePlayerToAltStartingSpotIfCameFromMap241" ENTER {

    // This does not work properly without BD version patched by me
    // (with NPC companion spawning delay of 2 seconds
    // and improved npc companion spawning algorithms)
    // because the NPC companions would get lost on the road of life,
    // Leroy Jenkensing from the primary start towards your new position
    // through the monster thicket -- you'd only find their smoking corpses)

    if (CheckInventory("HasLootedTheCastle")) {
        TakeInventory("HasLootedTheCastle", 1);
        int TargetSpotTID = 101 + PlayerNumber();
        // Instead of MapSpot I use 9044 Teleport(Z height)
        // so that the player arrives 20 units above the blood creak
        // causing a loud splash when he touches down
        int myoldtid = ActivatorTID();
        int mytemporarytid = UniqueTID();
        Thing_ChangeTID(0, mytemporarytid); // here 0 means "script's activator", regardless of his TID
        Thing_Move(mytemporarytid, TargetSpotTID, 1);
        SetActorAngle(mytemporarytid, GetActorAngle(TargetSpotTID));
        Thing_ChangeTID(0, myoldtid);
    }
    delay(1);
    Terminate;
}