Statue Comes to life

[HaunterV]

yeah. we need animations to stop taking place until such a time as i no longer want them taking place, like when it's time to smash some puny adventurers.

[Xanathar]

What about creating a Blockage object using the ogre model, and then on the fly removing the object and spawning the monster when the animation time kicks in (maybe with a big particle effect to try to cover eventual discontinuities in the animation) ?

[HaunterV]

What about creating a Blockage object using the ogre model, and then on the fly removing the object and spawning the monster when the animation time kicks in (maybe with a big particle effect to try to cover eventual discontinuities in the animation) ?

That's the route I'm going to take. However I was kind of looking to just have a stone monster come to life without all the smoke and mirrors.

I just had the thought of a monster that only moves when you are t looking at it until it gets within 3! Spaces. Then it drops the statue charade and attacks in a frenzy. Naturally said monster should only be knee high.

[melierax]

Hello HaunterV
Before sorry for my poor english language (Google translation)
If I understood you ask for a statue that turns into a monster when you get to three spaces, looking into her eyes
Try this :
First : create stone_ogre from Ciccipicci (Thanks I love this monster)
Two : create this object

defineObject{
name = "stone_ogre_statue",
class = "Blockage",
model = "mod_assets/models/monsters/stone_ogre.fbx",
placement = "floor",
repelProjectiles = true,
hitSound = "impact_blade",
editorIcon = 56,
}
watch out for the model location put it in your mod_assets

Three : place a stone_ogre_statue in your dungeon and a hidden pressure plate (click activate once and change ID for function killOgre() ) facing your statue (3 spaces)
Four : create a floor outside of your dungeon
in this floor put a stone_ogre (change facing in the same way of your statue) and a teleporter (Deactivated) and select your teleporter target on your stone_ogre_statue

Five : create a lua script and put this script

function killOgre()
for i in entitiesAt(6, 22, 5) do
if i.name == "stone_ogre_statue" then
i:destroy()
end
end
end

(change the entitiesAt for your location of stone_ogre_statue )

Now connect your pressure plate to lua script and and teleporter

Remember before try this take a copy of your dungeon

Now you can try, he work very well for me

[Neikun]

I made the stone ogre D:

[melierax]

I made the stone ogre D:

Oups very sorry for my error i put my the next time
Thanks for this monster i like it

[msyblade]

I have not tried this at all, so i may be way off base (Ive learned that all of my assumptions NEVER work, gotta try, fail, and adjust with this engine).But I really think a freeze effect with a drab gray, that can be activated and deactivated on that ogre at will, can make a stark,still ,gray statue that turns into a normal Ogre any time you want.

[HaunterV]

I have not tried this at all, so i may be way off base (Ive learned that all of my assumptions NEVER work, gotta try, fail, and adjust with this engine).But I really think a freeze effect with a drab gray, that can be activated and deactivated on that ogre at will, can make a stark,still ,gray statue that turns into a normal Ogre any time you want.

That does sound simpler. I'm going to do the statue thing mentioned in the above with the puff of dust n what not. Though shouldn't a script with the gist that says "spawn stone ogre" be a tad simpler than creating a monster closet with a teleporter?

[HaunterV]

got it working for the most part. just trying to attach a good looking particle system to it.

[HaunterV]

ok i got the effect i want in every situation but one....



I kind of wanted a more dynamic pose