Falling tree's and underground ladder

**enixrules** · 04-21-2011, 04:43 AM

Hi, I'm relatively new to mapping and scripted and I had two questions

1. How can I put tree's to block an area then have them fall to open the area up once they reach a certain point?

2. How can I put in an underground area(like a mineshaft or tunnel going downwards with ladder to a small room)?

**enixrules** · 04-22-2011, 01:18 AM

Bump, please give me the informations.

**lightsheik** · 04-22-2011, 01:25 AM

I dont know for the falling tree but for the ladder juste put a ladder and a script area and change the type to ladder.

**enixrules** · 04-22-2011, 02:40 AM

That sound simple enough but the tutorial I watched and started my map with I added a plane as the ground and if I add a ladder its just in the ground and there's not any way to go down it. Is there any way around this?

**MrBigzy** · 04-22-2011, 02:47 AM

So uh...take out that plane and make other planes around the hole. You can make them link up by checking the use world coordinates checkbox.

**Kyle** · 04-22-2011, 03:50 AM

I recommend checking out the falling tree in Amnesia. I sadly don't remember where it is in the game, but I know it does have a tree fall down in it. If you can't find it or know how to do it from there, I now recommend for you to do some scripting causing a chain of movements with time intervals of making the tree entity becoming active and then inactive.

If you have ever been to a light show, that could have, for example, a kid made out of colored lights (2d or course) and it would show him throw a ball and the lights would blink indicating where the ball is. Eventually reaching it's goal at the end of the "animation". You could also think of it as a flip book where it shows picture by picture as you flip really fast through a flip book. Like a ball bouncing down and then coming back up. If you need more help, I'll be here to help you. Smile

**Josh707** · 04-22-2011, 04:04 AM

I'm 99% sure there's a separate entity of the tree falling, so when you enter the script area do:

setEntityActive("treestanding", false);
setEntityActive("tree_falling", true);

it's not called tree falling... or maybe it is... I don't know. Just look somewhere in the static objects folder

**majinvegito123** · 04-23-2011, 06:02 PM

**laser50** · 04-23-2011, 06:55 PM

Do what Josh said, but make the player's sight turn black for a second and get a sound for the tree on it. I think that would make it look better.

**Streetboat** · 04-23-2011, 07:18 PM

All the script is doing (It's 11_study, btw) is making the physics of the falling tree entity set to static at map start, then once the player triggers it, making the physics non-static and giving it a PropForce of about 1000.