Xindaris
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-If a character, with or without the use of Myscript, is instructed to check only the tile it's standing on for any other item, such as a powder keg, it sees it just fine.
-If a character under the same conditions tries to detect any kind of pressure plate, it doesn't see it.

I've attached the room I was using to try and see what was wrong with a character I was using this code for. The thing in the top right is pushable and non-stunnable, and uses myscripts to detect what's under it, and is supposed to change to a "weighing down" appearance if it sees a pressure plate, a wraithwing if it doesn't; it just instantly turns into a wraithwing and stays that way.
The two citizens illustrate the problem more precisely: They have identical code except the north one is looking for pressure plates while the south one is looking for powder kegs. Even if you change the code to one that doesn't use myscript at all, as long as it only looks at the tile under the character, the top one works and the bottom one doesn't. The top one does detect pressure plates anywhere it isn't currently standing, though.

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What version are you using?

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Xindaris
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I'm using the version from the patch in the "TSS 5.1" topic (5.1.0.6345). Prior to using this version, pressure plate detection worked perfectly with the "Wait for Item at" set to the one kind of pressure plate available, which returned true for any pressure plate at all in the indicated location. So I guess there might be an error in how the new, more specific pressure plate detection was implemented?

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I have played around with this and discovered the issue. It has nothing to do with MyScript or characters etc.

Wait for Item will only detect pressure plates in the top-left square if the pressure plate is more than one-tile large.

When verifying I only used one-square large pressure plates so I missed this one

If there is no top-left square, then it looks for the left-most square, then the top-most one if multiple ones occupy that column.

This is demonstratable in the hold attached to the original post by pushing the roach/wraitwing character into the top-left hand corner of each PP, in which case he then turns into what he is supposed to. I have also verified it in a much more simple case in a separate test hold.

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[Last edited by kieranmillar at 01-18-2016 10:50 PM : Wow I don't know my left from right. What a dummy.]

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Fixed, now it detects pressure plates correctly. Moreover, Wait for item didn't work correctly with orbs which is also fixed (there are 4 types of orbs to check: any, normal, cracked and broken)

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I can confirm that as of the latest patch in the "5.1" thread, the scripts I have relying on pressure plate detection like the one in the first post here now work properly.

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[Last edited by Xindaris at 02-17-2016 03:56 PM]