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I have a little teeny-tiny scripting problem - might be a level editor problem, I'm not entirely sure:

What's supposed to happen - Player is climbing a bookshelf to grab a specific book, get's about... 3/4 of the way there and loses grip. They then fall 6m-ish flat on their back and black out.
What is actually happening - Player climbs up, loses grip at 3/4 of the way up, falls, blacks out. Trying to move forward upon waking up results in climbing up the shelf.

This is the script:

Code:
void Script_Fall (string &in asParent, string &in asChild, int alState)

{

    PlaySoundAtEntity("gasp", "react_scare.snt", "Player", 0, false);

    AddTimer("F1", 0.1f, "timer_fall");

    AddTimer("F2", 0.5f, "timer_fall");

    AddTimer("F3", 0.8f, "timer_fall");

    AddTimer("F4", 1.0f, "timer_fall");

    AddTimer("F5", 2.5f, "timer_fall");

    AddTimer("F6", 6.1f, "timer_fall");

}

void timer_fall(string &in asTimer)

{

    if(asTimer == "F1")

    {

        AddPlayerBodyForce(-1000, -10000, -5500, false);

        StartPlayerLookAt("Area_Fall", 4, 5, "");

        AddPropForce("book02_17", 0.0f, -100.0f, -350.0f, "world");

        AddPropForce("book01_2", 0.0f, -100.0f, -350.0f, "world");

        AddPropForce("book03_153", 0.0f, -100.0f, -350.0f, "world");

        AddPropForce("book02_91", 0.0f, -100.0f, -350.0f, "world");

        AddPropForce("tome01_1", 0.0f, -100.0f, -350.0f, "world");

        AddPropForce("book03_152", 0.0f, -100.0f, -350.0f, "world");

        AddPropForce("book02_90", 0.0f, -100.0f, -350.0f, "world");

        AddPropForce("book03glowing_1", 0.0f, -100.0f, -350.0f, "world");

    }

    if(asTimer == "F2")

    {

        SetEntityActive("LadderArea_1", false);

    }

    if(asTimer == "F3")

    {

        StopPlayerLookAt();

        StartPlayerLookAt("Area_Look1", 5, 8, "");

    }

    if(asTimer =="F4")

    {

        StopPlayerLookAt();

        SetPlayerCrouching(true);

        FadePlayerRollTo(70, 50, 55);

        SetPlayerHealth(55);

        SetPlayerMoveSpeedMul(1.5f);

        GiveSanityDamage(20, true);

        FadePlayerFOVMulTo(1.0f, 4);

    }

    if(asTimer =="F5")

    {

        StartPlayerLookAt("Area_Fall", 15, 20, ""); 

        GiveSanityDamage(40, false);

        PlaySoundAtEntity("crash", "player_falldamage_max.snt", "Player", 0, false);

        FadeOut(4.0f);

        PlaySoundAtEntity("ringing", "insanity_ear_ring.snt", "Player", 4, false);

    }

    if(asTimer =="F6")

    {

        StopPlayerLookAt();

        StopSound("ringing", 2);

        FadePlayerRollTo(0, 50, 50);

        SetPlayerCrouching(false);

        SetPlayerMoveSpeedMul(1.0f);

        FadeIn(0.5f);

    }

}

There's about 3m between the shelf and the wall behind it, so I'm pretty sure that's not the problem.

Any suggestions?

Try setting the ladder area inactive, I have something similar in my custom story. After the scene you can re-activate it if you want to let the player go back up.

Code:
if(asTimer == "F2")

    {

        SetEntityActive("LadderArea_1", false);

    }

I did that and it ended up not working :\ Unless I'm just using the wrong thing for it.

Make sure that the name is consistent with the one at the LevelEditor.

This function ChangePlayerStateToNormal(); makes the player release the ladder.
Then, i would make the player look up with StartPlayerLookAt+area at the ceiling
and i'd have the player inactive in this events, mostly to stop him from grabbing the ladder again.

Thanks, Amn! I'll have to give that a try :)

(Thanks to everyone else that answered as well :P)

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