Point_viewcontrol and saving game problem

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Timoteeei
22 Posts
#92079
Posted Mar 05, 2013
Hello there, a kind people. I tried to use entity point_viewcontrol for emulate a ladder climbing, it became very cool but i met a problem. If player try to use save while viewcontrol is active, it stops to follow the parent that causing a problem of activating this viewcontrol later.
At first look it is not a big deal, but there are some kinds of players: who not saves at all, who saves rarely and who saves very offen. So there is a chance so one of them could use save while "climbing" that will cause unwanted bug, which i and players don't want to be.

So i have a question: is there any way by which i can forbid for players to use a saves for a while? It could help a lot.

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TopHATTwaffle
113 Posts
#92080
Posted Mar 05, 2013
Replied 15 minutes later
Saving can cause issues for a lot of things. I'd suggest that you unbind the default save key while the player is climbing, then bind it back. You can also just force a new auto save once they a done climbing. So when they reload, they are done climbing.
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Timoteeei
22 Posts
#92084
Posted Mar 05, 2013
Replied 56 minutes later
Unbind keys seems helpful for this situation, easy and effective. But how do i do this? With a some scripts or there are a some entity for that?

P.S. @TopHATTwaffle, thanks for your awesome tutorials and very helpful site, you are a great teacher for me :notworthy:

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TopHATTwaffle
113 Posts
#92085
Posted Mar 05, 2013
Replied 3 minutes later
If the maps are single player, just bind F6 (I think that's autosave?) to null. Here is the command.
"Unbind F6"

Then bind it back with:
"bind "F6" "save quick""

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Timoteeei
22 Posts
#92086
Posted Mar 05, 2013
Replied 42 minutes later
I know about these commands but the question is where i should type it, what entities should i use (except triggers of course)?
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TopHATTwaffle
113 Posts
#92087
Posted Mar 05, 2013
Replied 2 minutes later
Use a point_servercommand to fire the commands.
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Timoteeei
22 Posts
#92088
Posted Mar 05, 2013
Replied 10 minutes later
Thanks! That all what i have to know :3
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greykarel
225 Posts
#92090
Posted Mar 05, 2013
Replied 2 hours later
Hehe, new problem can arise for those players who have another key for quick saving but not F6. They will lose there own binding and get default one.
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TopHATTwaffle
113 Posts
#92109
Posted Mar 05, 2013
Replied 7 hours later
They won't actually. When you bind a key though the console you can have multiple key bindings. So they will just have F6 as a quick save bind as well.
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Timoteeei
22 Posts
#92117
Posted Mar 05, 2013
Replied 1 hour later

TopHATTwaffle wrote:
They won't actually. When you bind a key though the console you can have multiple key bindings. So they will just have F6 as a quick save bind as well.

I had the same thought, just didn't have time to reply =P

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HMW
806 Posts
#92118
Posted Mar 05, 2013
Replied 4 minutes later
In the very first level (wakeup sequence), there is a logic_auto with this output:

save_disable.png

I have not tested whether it works in a custom map, but try it out! It may be just the thing you need.
(@command is a point_servercommand in one of the global instances.)

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TopHATTwaffle
113 Posts
#92119
Posted Mar 05, 2013
Replied 17 minutes later

HMW wrote:
In the very first level (wakeup sequence), there is a logic_auto with this output:
save_disable.png

I have not tested whether it works in a custom map, but try it out! It may be just the thing you need.
(@command is a point_servercommand in one of the global instances.)

I totally forgot that is a thing... Don't listen to me. Do this, it will work.

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Timoteeei
22 Posts
#92120
Posted Mar 05, 2013
Replied 16 minutes later
Wow! That really looks more helpful than previous one. But thank to you both =)
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Timoteeei
22 Posts
#92122
Posted Mar 05, 2013
Replied 59 minutes later
"map_wants_save_disable" was the exactly what i need, but instead of "point_servercommand" or using as a target the "@command" (both do not work), i used "point_clientcommand" which works great
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FelixGriffin
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#92128
Posted Mar 05, 2013
Replied 1 hour later
That's also what they use when you're going up in the elevator at the end of the level. I'd forgotten about it. Thanks!
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