GetDead not working as expected in Actor script

[peadar1987]

Hi, another Mojave Heavyweight problem.

 

The scripts I'm running on my boxers to enable proper tournaments check the player health, the boxer health, and run a timer.

 

When the timer hits 60 seconds, it compares the damage taken by the player and their opponent, and judges who's won the round, best of three rounds wins.

 

That's working no problem, but I also want it to check if the player has knocked out their opponent, which is where things get annoying. I've tried to use an if loop that uses the getdead command. I've put in debugging messages, and as far as I can tell, even if the opponent is knocked out, the script refuses to enter the loop when dealing with certain actors.

 

Debugging messages placed in the script all the way to the top of this loop display correctly, so I don't think the script is terminating before it gets round to testing if the boxer is dead.

 

Any helpful advice would be appreciated.

 

Here's the text of the loop (in all its unformatted glory!), the actual script is 120 lines long, so I'm not going to subject you to it all!

if (KittyTopsRef.GetDead)

set timer2 to timer2 + getsecondspassed

;showmessage 000debuginitialise3

showmessage 000Debuggingmessage timer

if (timer2>5)

KittyTopsRef.resurrect 0

KittyTopsRef.resethealth

player.resethealth

showmessage 111winbyknockout

setstage 131Rhythm 255

Set DoOnce0 to 0

Set DoOnce1 to 0

set acakittyboxing to 0

endif

endif

Any helpful advice would be much appreciated!

[jazzisparis]

Just wanting to make sure: None of the opponents has the IsEssential flag set, right?

[peadar1987]

Just wanting to make sure: None of the opponents has the IsEssential flag set, right?

 

No, and the same thing happens whether I kill them through the console, or the old fashioned way. Thanks for the suggestion though

[jazzisparis]

Then it's possible that, for whatever reason, KittyTopsRef is not registered as being dead.
If KittyTopsRef uses a script, try adding this code:

begin OnDeath

	printc "I'm dead."

end

If it works, you can have KittyTopsRef trigger the procedure form an OnDeath block, instead of using GetDead from the main script.

[peadar1987]

Then it's possible that, for whatever reason, KittyTopsRef is not registered as being dead.

If KittyTopsRef uses a script, try adding this code:

begin OnDeath

	printc "I'm dead."

end

If it works, you can have KittyTopsRef trigger the procedure form an OnDeath block, instead of using GetDead from the main script.

 

Thanks!

 

I'd thought of that, but you know when you get attached to a certain way of doing things, and just want to know why it's not working?!! I'll give this way a go and see if it does the trick.

[DizzasterJuice]

GetDead returns 1 if true, 0 if false, therfore the first line needs to be:

if KittyTopsRef.GetDead == 1

[jazzisparis]

 

you know when you get attached to a certain way of doing things

All too well, my friend. I suffer from the same disorder. I'm very curious myself why it doesn't work. There doesn't seem to be any immediately apparent reason.

GetDead returns 1 if true, 0 if false, therfore the first line needs to be:

if KittyTopsRef.GetDead == 1

Any variable/condition function is treated as a boolean when no equality/inequality is specified, and will return True for any value other than zero.

[DizzasterJuice]

Yeah you're right...sometimes I speak before I think. :confused: I had this problem once before and I remember it was an easy fix but don't remember exactly what it was other than it had something to do with the way I was using getdead and resurrect.