Connecting actions and disabeling others

[FearNoEvil]

Basically how do you connect actions but also disable other actions in the same script. Let's say the player presses a button to lower platform 1, platform 1 lowers, but the button for platform 2 is now unusable, and vice versa. I'm reading the wiki but I'm not grasping this.

 

Using switch/case function:

 

Script 1 (void)
{
 switch(Plat_DownByValue(3,6, 0, 17))
 {
  case 1:
  Plat_DownByValue(3, 6, 0, 17);
  break;
  }
  switch (Plat_DownByValue(4, 6, 0, 17))
  {
  case 1:
  Plat_DownByValue(4, 6, 0, 17);
  }

 

[FearNoEvil]

Ok ok. After some rest and a bit more reading I'm finally getting somewhere. I realize the errors of my ways so I scrapped the above script and made a new one.

 

#include "zcommon.acs"

bool platform1Lowered = false;
bool platform2Lowered = false;

Script 1 (int platformNumber)
{// One platform lowers the other gets disabled permanently, vice versa
    if (platformNumber == 1)
    {
        platform1Lowered = true;
        Plat_DownByValue(1,15,0,17);
    }
    else if (platformNumber == 2)
    {
        platform2Lowered = false;
    }

    if (platformNumber == 2)
    {
        platform2Lowered = true;
        Plat_DownByValue(2,15,0,17);
    }
    else if (platformNumber == 2)
    {
        platform1Lowered = false;
    }
}

 

It works sorta. The platforms lower after pressing their respective switches, but what I want is after pressing one switch, the other switch for the other platform is disabled permanently, i.e. the other switch doesn't flip and its platform does not lower. 

 

 

[Rifleman]

How about this? The second switch will still flip, but won't do anything. It would take more tinkering to make it so it doesn't. I just put this together in my head, so hopefully it's correct.

 

#include "zcommon.acs"

bool platform1Lowered = false;
bool platform2Lowered = false;

Script 1 (int platformNumber)
{
    if (platformNumber == 1 && platform1Lowered == false)
    {
        platform1Lowered = true;

        platform2Lowered = true;
        Plat_DownByValue(1,15,0,17);
    }

    else if (platformNumber == 2 && platform2Lowered == false )
    {

        platform1Lowered = true;
        platform2Lowered = true;
        Plat_DownByValue(2,15,0,17);
    }
}

[FearNoEvil]

Ah I see! Yes, that works, thanks!