Scripting noob, help needed!

[willochill]

I just starting scripting a level i made and in this level there is a bone saw (named bone_saw_2) in one room, and another room is blocked off with wooden boards. basically this is what i want to happen: when you use the saw with the boards the boards fall apart, and a grunt in the blocked off room awakens. so i have a set of inactive broken wooden boards (right near the intact boards) which i want to activate, and the intact boards will be deactivated, to create the illusion of the boards breaking. the grunt in the room is inactive and i want to activate it as well once the saw hits the intact boards. i scripted this but when i test it in the map it's still not working. i copied/pasted the script i wrote for the level below. please tell me what i'm doing wrong here, very confused!
(P.S. to have a script .hps file correspond to a certain map, do you just need to name them the same thing, or is it more complicated than that? also, i have all the maps im testing and their scripts (or at least this one i wrote) in a folder in the "maps" folder in common/amnesia tdd. should they be somewhere else for the script to correspond to it?)

void OnStart ()
{
AddEntityCollideCallback("bone_saw_2", "wooden_boards_block_1", "SawGruntAlert", true, 1);
}

void SawGruntAlert(string &in asParent, string &in asChild, int alState)
{
SetEntityActive("wooden_boards_block_1", false);
SetEntityActive("wooden_boards_block_broken_1", true);
SetEntityActive("servant_grunt_1", true);
}

[Kyle]

Well, you could say I can literally almost script anything with the HPL 2 engine.

I see what you are trying to do, since the bone_saw_2 is a item, you need to go into your inventory and use it on the boards.

I could make it so complex to where it shows the animation of the saw cutting the boards, but I'm short on time. :/

Try this:

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void OnStart()
{
     AddUseItemCallback("", "bone_saw_2", "wooden_boards_block_1", "SawGruntAlert", true);
}
void SawGruntAlert(string &in asItem, string &in asEntity)
{
     SetEntityActive("wooden_boards_block_1", false);
     SetEntityActive("wooden_boards_block_broken_1", true);
     PlaySoundAtEntity("", "23_saw2.snt", "Player", 0, false);
     AddTimer("", 1, "TimerFunc");
}
void TimerFunc(string &in asTimer)
{
     SetEntityActive("servant_grunt_1", true);
}

[Karai16]

Well, you could say I can literally almost script anything with the HPL 2 engine.

I see what you are trying to do, since the bone_saw_2 is a item, you need to go into your inventory and use it on the boards.

I could make it so complex to where it shows the animation of the saw cutting the boards, but I'm short on time. :/

Try this:

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void OnStart()
{
     AddUseItemCallback("", "bone_saw_2", "wooden_boards_block_1", "SawGruntAlert", true);
}
void SawGruntAlert(string &in asItem, string &in asEntity)
{
     SetEntityActive("wooden_boards_block_1", false);
     SetEntityActive("wooden_boards_block_broken_1", true);
     PlaySoundAtEntity("", "23_saw2.snt", "Player", 0, false);
     AddTimer("", 1, "TimerFunc");
}
void TimerFunc(string &in asTimer)
{
     SetEntityActive("servant_grunt_1", true);
}

wow Kyle, you're everywhere today O.o ... I just wanted to put in the same thing saves me work though.

[Kyle]

Thanks. I know, I can be at 3 places at once. It's my speciality. :p

[willochill]

Okay, so first of all, this was great, problem was the sound of the saw didn't stop, so this is how I changed the script:
void OnStart()
{
AddUseItemCallback("", "bone_saw_2", "wooden_boards_block_1", "SawGruntAlert", true);
}
void SawGruntAlert(string &in asItem, string &in asEntity)
{
SetEntityActive("wooden_boards_block_1", false);
SetEntityActive("wooden_boards_block_broken_1", true);
PlaySoundAtEntity("", "23_saw2.snt", "Player", 0, false);
AddTimer("", 1, "TimerFunc");
AddTimer("StopSoundTimer", 1, "TimerFunc2");
}
void TimerFunc(string &in asTimer)
{
SetEntityActive("servant_grunt_1", true);
}
void TimerFunc2(string &in asTimer)
{
StopSound("23_saw2.snt", 0);
}

But it didn't do anything.
Second, I wanted to start an ambience sound file playing from the beginning of the map so this is what I added:
void OnStart()
{
FadeInSound("amb_guardian.snt", 0, abPlayStart);
}
{
AddUseItemCallback("", "bone_saw_2", "wooden_boards_block_1", "SawGruntAlert", true);
}
void SawGruntAlert(string &in asItem, string &in asEntity)
{
SetEntityActive("wooden_boards_block_1", false);
SetEntityActive("wooden_boards_block_broken_1", true);
PlaySoundAtEntity("", "23_saw2.snt", "Player", 0, false);
AddTimer("", 1, "TimerFunc");
AddTimer("StopSoundTimer", 1, "TimerFunc2");
}
void TimerFunc(string &in asTimer)
{
SetEntityActive("servant_grunt_1", true);
}
void TimerFunc2(string &in asTimer)
{
StopSound("23_saw2.snt", 0);
}
Once i add the fade in sound the map crashes.

Third of all although I don't want to learn how to do it all could you post whatever script you would need to make the sawing animation with the sound? that would be a lot cooler than just what it is now. thx.