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superluminal
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While working on a level set, I couldn't find a way to let the player drop trapdoors if he didn't have an enabled sword equipped, so I developed this workaround. It's a little ugly and takes a lot of behind-the-scenes work (might cause lag on slow computers), but it gets the job done. This script will let the player drop trapdoors and toggle any trapdoor gates.

_trapdoorFinder
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_reddoorFinder
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trapdoorPit
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trapdoorWater
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How to use: In whatever room you want to start this, just put down a character with the following script:
  Generate entity _trapdoorFinder,0,0,northwest
  Generate entity _reddoorFinder,0,0,northwest

and it'll work its magic throughout the rest of the hold. Have fun!

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07-01-2016 at 03:17 AM
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Nice idea - but there are a few issues. Primarily that _MyScriptX and _MyScriptY are shared between characters and you're not resetting them back to their default values of -9999. It's likely that you'll run into issues if there are any other scripts in the hold. In particular, both of the first two scripts should end by setting both values to -9999.
07-01-2016 at 05:44 AM
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Someone Else wrote:
Primarily that _MyScriptX and _MyScriptY are shared between characters
No, they aren't. None of the _My variables are global. Each character gets its own value to play with. Heck, when an entity is generated it gets its own _MyScripts (already defaulted to -9999). I don't see your concern.

Were there any other issues you saw? I don't want to post faulty work.

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07-01-2016 at 05:50 AM
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Wait, what, really?

... Oh yeah, you're right. Well, thanks for correcting me. Looks good, then!
07-01-2016 at 04:14 PM
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Couple lines don't parse into DROD properly:
Wait for item Trapdoor (over pit),0,0,0,0
Wait while entity is Player 0,0,0,0

For people trying this, note the script only works from (0,0) to (15,15), but you only need to change four lines for it to work in entire room. Also, other doubles/multipushes won't work properly.
07-01-2016 at 08:08 PM
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I think you've forgotten which forum this was posted in bomber50. This is for RPG.
07-01-2016 at 08:39 PM
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No wonder. :)

But kinda cool they both work in regular DROD/RPG without too many changes.
07-02-2016 at 05:07 AM
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Oh, pretty cool. I placed the trapdoorPit Characters manually up until now.
I'll use your script from now on. Thanks for sharing. :)

EDIT: Changed my original comment because I misread the script first.

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07-02-2016 at 12:42 PM
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Oops! There's an edge case I didn't think of: what if there's no trapdoors in the room? The script as-is will keep toggling red doors every time you enter the room, which is (obviously) not how trapdoor gates actually work. So I've added a small condition at the end of _trapdoorFinder that should fix this.

I've edited the script in the first post.

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07-02-2016 at 09:03 PM
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