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Conveyor belts - Maniac - 01-29-2007
I'm making a room for Smallsome Swicks, in which some moneybags are going to be pretty tricky to get. In order to get them, I want Jack to have to turn on some conveyor belts. However, I can't seem to make the room start with conveyors off. I've tried making the conveyorbeltlever do
default actionlike some moving platform levers I've made, but this doesn't seem to work.
Re: Conveyor belts - brell - 01-29-2007
I tried the same in my BtSO but it didn't work. I asked for help on the old boards and someone told me it didn't work for conveyor belts.
Re: Conveyor belts - aquaMat - 01-30-2007
@Maniac:
Maybe you could do something like this:
As soon as Jack enters the room, have him step on a (hidden) floor-switch, which deactivates all running conveyor belts. Then, in order to get the money, Jack needs to re-activate the belts.
I guess it should work this way....
Re: Conveyor belts - Maniac - 01-30-2007
Unwanted solution: jump over switch when entering room.
Unwanted solution: even if you add a second switch, the jump time will make the conveyor belts run for that time and mess things up.
Jack also approaches this room from a vine.
Yeah, I suppose I could tweak it to work differently, but.
Re: Conveyor belts - samskelton - 01-30-2007
couldn't you add a gray door on the belt? that's how I do it.
Re: Conveyor belts - Maniac - 01-31-2007
Yeah, I suppose that situation will work, even though there's another door in the room. There are scorpions on the belt too, though.
Thanks Sam.
Re: Conveyor belts - VernJensen - 02-07-2007
Huh, you're right -- doing
Action is default room statedoesn't affect conveyor belts. I'll look into this later today. There may be a good reason why this is the way it is, so I'm not guaranteeing it'll change.
Re: Conveyor belts - Alanfalcon - 02-02-2008
VernJensen wrote: Huh, you're right -- doingAction is default room statedoesn't affect conveyor belts. I'll look into this later today. There may be a good reason why this is the way it is, so I'm not guaranteeing it'll change.
I'm not sure if this is related, but you can't have a lever that reverses conveyor belt direction which makes the action permanent when leaving and re-entering a room. It'd be great if this were possible - and I had to use an inelegant brick-switch workaround due to this behavior in a revision to Falcon Manor.