Plate triggered by Flying Monster

[Damonya]

Again me. I know I open too much topics, right now, and maybe some have to find me boring.

Here is my problem. I have a hidden plate and for my puzzle, I have need, the plate triggered only by monster. But when the monster is a flying monster (like a shrakk_torr), the plate is never triggered.

Someone has already encountered this problem? Is this a limitation of the game or we can bypass it?

[alois]

Again me. I know I open too much topics, right now, and maybe some have to find me boring.

Here is my problem. I have a hidden plate and for my puzzle, I have need, the plate triggered only by monster. But when the monster is a flying monster (like a shrakk_torr), the plate is never triggered.

Someone has already encountered this problem? Is this a limitation of the game or we can bypass it?

You can do the following: set a timer, with a small time interval (say: 0.1 seconds) which, when activated, launches a lookForMonster() function in a script, and then reactivates itself. The lookForMonster function is something like

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function lookForMonster()
   for entity in entitiesAt(party.level,x,y) do -- here x,y are the coordinates of the location where the monster has to be
      if (entity.name == "shrakk_torr") then
         -- do whatever you need to do
      end
   end
end

Note that you do not even need a pressure plate

You can activate the timer with an hidden pressure plate when the party enters the room, and deactivate it when it leaves the room.

alois

[Damonya]

Ok thank you once more alois, I would never have thought to do it like that. So problem solved.

[Diarmuid]

An onMove hook in the shrakk torr would be more efficient and less error-prone (they move very fas and I have had trouble with Shrakks and timers...).

[Neikun]

You could just clone the monster and set flying = false.
I don't know what that will mean for pits, though.