Scripting question

[Serge Jkn]

Hi everyone!

I've been looking into some scripting tutorials but I seem to be stuck with this one. I'd like to spawn some additional monsters when the monster with TID 16 has reached 50% health. When I start fighting the creature and eventually kill it, nothing happens. The creature has a total of 3000 health points. Every TID has been assigned correctly in the map. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

script 6 OPEN
{

while(1)

{
        if(GetActorProperty (16, APROP_Health) <= 1500)
        {
            Thing_Spawn (12, 6, 0);
                Delay (35);
            Thing_Spawn (13, 6, 128);
                Delay (35);
            Thing_Spawn (14, 6, 192);
                Delay (35);
            Thing_Spawn (15, 6, 64);
            Terminate;
         }
      
}

}

[StormCatcher.77]

There is not enough "Delay (1);" after "While". Due to its absence, the While loop becomes infinite and GZDoom automatically stops its execution.

Try this at first:

 

Script 6 Open { 

	While(True) { Delay (1);

		If (GetActorProperty (16, APROP_Health) <= 1500) { Print (s:"-------------"); Terminate; }
                                                   
	}	}

 

[Serge Jkn]

I tried it but unfortunately it doesn't work...

[Aquila Chrysaetos]

How about this while loop:

script 1 OPEN
{
 while (GetActorProperty (6, APROP_HEALTH) >= 1501)
 {
  Delay (1); //Do nothing
 }
 {
  //Do stuff after his health drops to 1,500 or below
 }
}

This checks about 35 times per second if the monster's health is above 1,500, and if it returns true, it will hit that delay and check again until it returns false, in which case it will execute everything in between the second set of braces.

You don't have to write terminate at the end, because the script will terminate itself upon hitting a closing brace outside the while/until/if-else loop.

[Serge Jkn]

Works like a charm! Thank you so much!