[RESOLVED] - [Script] need help for random location teleport

[Golamare]

I want to do a fighting challenge in a room around 25 tile (5x5). but the twist is that every 5 second all tile from the room will activate a teleport and move every entity to a random location in the room.

I'm not a programer or a scripter so I have no idea if its doable or how it would need to be done if possible.

thanks for the time

[Komag]

one problem will be that you probably can't hope for "every" tile because the teleporters would be an infinite progression until they turn off, several teleports within a very small time. Maybe you could set up something like a checker pattern every other time, so half the entities get moved to non-teleporter squares. To truly randomize teleporter destinations is a little bit of coding but not too bad I guess, just generate a random x from the range you have on that room, and a random y to go with it, and program the teleorter before activating it, doing that for each one

[Grimwold]

To avoid the problem of teleporters, you could use the recently added function:

Monster:setPosition(x, y, facing, level)

To do so, you would have to programmatically get the id of each monster in your room, create a list of unique random co-ordinates, and then cycle through each monster ID calling the setPosition function.

[Golamare]

Thanks for the feedback I guess I will try to activate only teleporter on entity location.
However I'm not aware of a function that could do that.

[Komag]

I think Grimwold's idea will probably be the best approach this time, pretty clean and not too hard to implement

[Golamare]

for does that may have interest in how I end up dooing it here it is.

I used teleporter in checker formation. This was combined with 4 timers (2 for activating the 2 function of the script and 2 to deactivate the teleporter) all in sequence.

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-- challenge were the player has too fight monster
-- in a room full of teleporter. teleporter destination
-- change every activation

-- was made in a checker patherner since the limitation
-- of the application (would loop teleported entity)



function teleport1()

-- ///////////////////////////////////
-- // all location for the teleport //
-- ///////////////////////////////////

	local l1 = {17, 4, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	local l2 = {16, 5, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	local l3 = {18, 5, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	local l4 = {15, 6, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	local l5 = {17, 6, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	local l6 = {19, 6, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	local l7 = {16, 7, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	local l8 = {18, 7, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	local l9 = {17, 8, math.random(0, 3), 3}

-- /////////////////////////////
-- // table with all location //
-- /////////////////////////////
	
	local table1 = {l1, l2, l3, l4, l5, l6, l7,l8, l9}
	
-- //////////////////////////////////////////////
-- // this should return a value of the table  //
-- // for every teleport(exemple 5 will be l5) //
-- //////////////////////////////////////////////

	local random23 = table1[math.random(#table1)]
	local random24 = table1[math.random(#table1)]
	local random25 = table1[math.random(#table1)]
	local random26 = table1[math.random(#table1)]
	local random27 = table1[math.random(#table1)]
	local random28 = table1[math.random(#table1)]
	local random29 = table1[math.random(#table1)]
	local random30 = table1[math.random(#table1)]
	local random31 = table1[math.random(#table1)]
	local random32 = table1[math.random(#table1)]
	local random33 = table1[math.random(#table1)]
	local random34 = table1[math.random(#table1)]

	teleporter_23:setTeleportTarget(random23[1], random23[2], random23[3], random23[4])
	teleporter_24:setTeleportTarget(random24[1], random24[2], random24[3], random24[4])
	teleporter_25:setTeleportTarget(random25[1], random25[2], random25[3], random25[4])
	teleporter_26:setTeleportTarget(random26[1], random26[2], random26[3], random26[4])
	teleporter_27:setTeleportTarget(random27[1], random27[2], random27[3], random27[4])
	teleporter_28:setTeleportTarget(random28[1], random28[2], random28[3], random28[4])
	teleporter_29:setTeleportTarget(random29[1], random29[2], random29[3], random29[4])
	teleporter_30:setTeleportTarget(random30[1], random30[2], random30[3], random30[4])
	teleporter_31:setTeleportTarget(random31[1], random31[2], random31[3], random31[4])
	teleporter_32:setTeleportTarget(random32[1], random32[2], random32[3], random32[4])
	teleporter_33:setTeleportTarget(random33[1], random33[2], random33[3], random33[4])
	teleporter_34:setTeleportTarget(random34[1], random34[2], random34[3], random34[4])


end

function teleport2()

	local l10 = {16, 4, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	local l11 = {18, 4, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	local l12 = {15, 5, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	local l13 = {17, 5, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	local l14 = {19, 5, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	local l15 = {16, 6, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	local l16 = {18, 6, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	local l17 = {15, 7, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	local l18 = {17, 7, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	local l19 = {19, 7, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	local l20 = {16, 8, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	local l21 = {18, 8, math.random(0, 3), 3}
	
	local table1 = {l10, l11, l12, l13, l14, l15, l16, l17, l18, l19, l20, l21}

	local random35 = table1[math.random(#table1)]
	local random36 = table1[math.random(#table1)]
	local random37 = table1[math.random(#table1)]
	local random38 = table1[math.random(#table1)]
	local random39 = table1[math.random(#table1)]
	local random40 = table1[math.random(#table1)]
	local random41 = table1[math.random(#table1)]
	local random42 = table1[math.random(#table1)]
	local random43 = table1[math.random(#table1)]

	teleporter_35:setTeleportTarget(random35[1], random35[2], random35[3], random35[4])
	teleporter_36:setTeleportTarget(random36[1], random36[2], random36[3], random36[4])
	teleporter_37:setTeleportTarget(random37[1], random37[2], random37[3], random37[4])
	teleporter_38:setTeleportTarget(random38[1], random38[2], random38[3], random38[4])
	teleporter_39:setTeleportTarget(random39[1], random39[2], random39[3], random39[4])
	teleporter_40:setTeleportTarget(random40[1], random40[2], random40[3], random40[4])
	teleporter_41:setTeleportTarget(random41[1], random41[2], random41[3], random41[4])
	teleporter_42:setTeleportTarget(random42[1], random42[2], random42[3], random42[4])
	teleporter_43:setTeleportTarget(random43[1], random43[2], random43[3], random43[4])

end

thanks again for the help