Moving triggers.

[Fuzzmunch]

Theres no errors or anything, but the trigger doesn't move. The trigger is a brush, and the triggerOrigin is a script_origin. Am I doing this right? Also why do I need the wait 0.05? (I saw this in the script in some topic.)

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main()
{
        thread triggerHurt();
}


triggerHurt()
{
	trigger = getent("triggerHurt","targetname");
	triggerOrigin = getent("triggerOrigin","targetname");
	trigger enablelinkto();
	trigger linkto(triggerOrigin);
	wait 0.05;
	while(1)
		{
			triggerOrigin movey(-500,5,0,0);
			triggerOrigin waittill("movedone");
			triggerOrigin movey(500,5,0,0);
			triggerOrigin waittill("movedone");
		}
}

[Drofder2004]

The wait is so the server has one frames worth of time to link the entities, without it, it sometimes wont work.

The script looks fine, so what I would suggest is to make a brushmodel instead of a script_origin. This way you can physically see if it is working.

[Fuzzmunch]

The brush moves, but the trigger doesn't.

[Nightmare]

Triggers do not move, you will have to link them to a script_brushmodel, not sure about an origin texture, you can use the nodraw-notsolid texture.
Also, make sure the wait is inside the loop.
Lastly! Make sure you have the map name in front of your targetnames to prevent conflicting.

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main()
{
        thread triggerHurt();
}

triggerHurt()
{
   trigger = getent("triggerHurt","targetname");
   triggerOrigin = getent("triggerOrigin","targetname");
   trigger enablelinkto();
   trigger linkto(triggerOrigin);
   while(1)
      {
         triggerOrigin movey(-500,5,0,0);
         triggerOrigin waittill("movedone");
         triggerOrigin movey(500,5,0,0);
         triggerOrigin waittill("movedone");
         wait 0.05;
      }
}

[Fuzzmunch]

I did link it to a script_brushmodel.

The brush moves, but the trigger doesn't.

I meant brushmodel, sorry.

I tried putting the wait inside the loop but it's still doing the same thing.
I don't get what you mean by putting the map name in front of my targetnames.

[Drofder2004]

If you are using a trigger_hurt I am not sure if it works.

Use a trigger_multiple.
then create a new thread with something similar to...

triggerMultiple ("trigger", user)
user.health-=5;
wait 0.05;

[Fuzzmunch]

Ok I switched to trigger_multiple and still the same, also the trigger takes my health down all the way but doesn't kill me. I even tried user.health = 0 and I'm still alive.

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main()
{
	level.trigger = getent("triggerMultiple","targetname");

	thread triggerMove();
	thread triggerMultiple();
}

triggerMove()
{
	triggerOrigin = getent("triggerOrigin","targetname");
	level.trigger enablelinkto();
	level.trigger linkto(triggerOrigin);
	wait 0.05;
	while(1)
		{
			triggerOrigin movey(-500,5,0,0);
			triggerOrigin waittill("movedone");
			triggerOrigin movey(500,5,0,0);
			triggerOrigin waittill("movedone");
			wait 0.05;
		}
}

triggerMultiple()
{
	while(1)
		{
			level.trigger waittill("trigger",user);
			user.health = 0;
			wait 0.05;
		}
}

EDIT: Also I got what nightmare meant from reading another post, and renamed my targetnames, but that didn't help.
EDIT2: I changed the trigger to a script_brushmodel and it moves with the triggerOrigin fine.

[Fuzzmunch]

Yay I got it to work. I got desperate and just started trying random stuff. I put a wait 0.05 after every line and it worked, so I started taking them out until I found which line it was.

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trigger_origin = getent("map1_trigger_origin","targetname");
wait 0.05;

Im a little confused cause I've never seen anyone else need to do this, but whatever Im happy.
Also I changed it back to a trigger_hurt and it works just so you know.

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main()
{
	maps\mp\_load::main();
	thread trigger_move();
}

trigger_move()
{
	trigger = getent("map1_trigger_hurt","targetname");
	trigger_origin = getent("map1_trigger_origin","targetname");
	wait 0.05;
	trigger enablelinkto();
	trigger linkto(trigger_origin);
	wait 0.05;
	while(1)
		{
			trigger_origin movey(-500,5,0,0);
			trigger_origin waittill("movedone");
			trigger_origin movey(500,5,0,0);
			trigger_origin waittill("movedone");
			wait 0.05;
		}
}

[Drofder2004]

no problem. Like I said, sometimes the server requires a little extra wait for linking objects.