Healt system

[Esbentikjoeb]

Hey guys.

I'm about to make a map where i need a health system.

- When the player spawn he will lose 90hp leaving him 10hp
- There will be ports you can go through which will provide the player with 10hp per port.
- if the player falls down, hit a wall, or just fail - he will be stripped down to 10hp again and teleported to start.

First problem
The problem is that the player will be able to go through the ports as many times he want to. So i can't tie the trigger_hurt to a trigger_multiple, because then he would be able to just heal himself from one port. I can't tie it to a trigger_once since there will be more players in the game, which also needs to go through the ports and get health. And lastly, I can't make it a trigger_multiple that only "fires once", because players will retry the levl many times.

Second problem
As the player go through the map, let's say he will fail after getting to 40hp. I need him to be stripped to 10hp, but I can't only make a trigger_hurt, since players will fail at different hp-levels. Therefore, I need some kind of system that can recognize how much hp the player has and then strip it to 10hp.

I hope you guys can help. If you have the time, please send me a .bsp with the example

[greenman]

For the second problem, maybe you can use Sethealth?
Not sure how it works in MP situation, but !player will accept a "SetHealth" input.

[Garrador]

It has been so long since I worked with the I/O system in Hammer, so I don't know if there are any filters you could pass through a relay to check the trigger or whatnot. Can't say for sure (Ask marnamai or generalvivi).

I do know, however, how to do it by code. A custom entity for the ports that can track which players go through it every session, and when the player fails, you could simply set the HP to 10.

I'm sure it can be done with trigger_multiple and some sort of filter to make sure it only fires for a single player once.

For the second problem, there is a solution, sort of..:

command -> "buddah 1"
command -> "hurtme 100"
command -> "buddag 0"
command -> "give item_healthvial" (gives 10 hp)
command -> "hurtme 1"

Buddah command (toggle cmd) makes sure the player cannot die, so he will be left with 1 hp after hurtme 100.
Then toggle off so the player can die again, give item_healthvial which gives 10hp. Player now has 11 hp, so hurtme 1 will make it to 10.

A bit exhaustive, but it works..

[LordDz]

Make a trigger_multiple then set its outputs to:
OnStartTouch
!activator
SetHealth (It's something like that)
90

For the ports, have a trigger_hurt with a negative damage. -10 damage, etc.

[marnamai]

This will only work for a singleplayer hl2 game

To set the player's health use the output "trigger / !player / sethealth / 10" (like greenman said)

if the ports are linear you could use a trigger_mulitple and name it, fire a new sethealth input (each port 10 more than the previous) and disable the trigger on starttouch with a small time delay of 0,01 sec

if they aren't linear just use garradors method with the healthvials

When the player falls and hits the teleport trigger you can send the sethealth 10 input again. make sure to enabled the trigger multiple from the ports again after the teleport reset.

[marnamai]

ooh, does negative damage work? if so, then that method is by far the best

[Esbentikjoeb]

^Negative damage will give the player life.

When i use the trigger_hurt i'll set Damage: -20 (This will give me 10hp (for some reason you have to double the amount))

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For the ports, have a trigger_hurt with a negative damage. -10 damage, etc.

Yes but since the player will be able to go through the ports multiple times, he will be able to get 100hp in just one port. I need players to get 10hp only one time from each port.
But since if they fail, they will be teleported back to start with only 10hp and must therefore be able to get the 10hp from the ports again.

Wauw this is really hard to explain lol

[marnamai]

just disable the trigger onendtouch and enable it with once the player fails

[Esbentikjoeb]

Okay here is an example of the map

It's really bad portrayed though, since my paint skills are nonexisting.



from the starting point, players go to the first port to get 10hp (giving a total of 20hp)
The problem is, that if i use a trigger_hurt, they can just get all 90 hp in that port, since it wont stop giving them hp. I want the players to go through all ports which they will not do, if they can get all the hp at one port.

[Esbentikjoeb]

@marnamai
Ohh okay, so i'll have both a trigger_teleport and a trigger_multiple. And the trigger_multiple willenable the trigger_hurt again. Ill give it a try.

But what could i do about stripping the player to 10hp everytime he restarts, regardless of how much hp he already earned?

[marnamai]

the sethealth input to the !player?

if its mp, just kill the player when he fails and send the hurtme 90 input when he respawns

[Esbentikjoeb]

just disable the trigger onendtouch and enable it with once the player fails

Arh wait. I was to quick. This will not be possible either, since there will be multiple players. so when player 1 stop touching the trigger (onendtouch) it will be disabled for all players, until player 1 fails...

[marnamai]

yea ... might have been worth metioning it was for multiplayer ...

for what game?

[Esbentikjoeb]

yea ... might have been worth metioning it was for multiplayer ...

for what game?

Haha sorry. Im new to the forum, so I thought it was all Counter-strike Source related

It's Counter-strike Source and it's a Multiplayer map

[LordDz]

Use

Make a trigger_multiple then set its outputs to:
OnStartTouch
!activator
setHealth (It's something like that)
10

For setting the health to 10.

For the triggers that increase health by 10, is the player able to go back to them after he's passed through the next ports?