Grimrock

I'm trying to set up a simple thing: when you kill both patrols in the room, the door at the end opens. I've tried about 6 different ways to do it.

First, I have a timer that is deactivated. This timer, when activated, runs a script every minute. This script has been many variations on:
Along with a few other tries.

I've also tried a custom monster that hooks into onDie to decrement a counter. That fails as well. So my question is, what can I do to accomplish this, and, is this all failing because I use "K" to kill the monsters (I'm testing a high level room with level 1 debug party).

Actually it appears that the skeleton_patrol type cannot be found via findEntity. This all works correctly if I use anything that isn't a patrol.

AH, fix it!

I haven't much experience with lua or Grimrock mods, but is it possible that the monsters continue to exist even if dead? Maybe you need to check for their deaths like this:
Sorry I can't be of more help in that department. What I really wanted to share with you is for testing your mods with a higher leveled party. Komag has a great Grimrock remake mod http://www.nexusmods.com/grimrock/mods/230/? in which he has setup different parties to test with. Just download and check the "lua" entry in the upper left hand corner of level 1. I hope this helps.

Allanius2 wrote:I haven't much experience with lua or Grimrock mods, but is it possible that the monsters continue to exist even if dead? Maybe you need to check for their deaths like this:

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if findEntity("operatingRoomPatrol1").dead and findEntity("operatingRoomPatrol2").dead then
      operatingRoomExitDoor:open()
      operatingRoomTimer:deactivate()
   end
end

Sorry I can't be of more help in that department. What I really wanted to share with you is for testing your mods with a higher leveled party. Komag has a great Grimrock remake mod http://www.nexusmods.com/grimrock/mods/230/? in which he has setup different parties to test with. Just download and check the "lua" entry in the upper left hand corner of level 1. I hope this helps.

Well what I did to discover the bug is I added print(findEntity("operatingRoomPatrol1")) and found that returns nil at all times although finding a single skeleton's entity worked just fine. It wasn't a matter of them dying and remaining - the game considered them not to exist from the start. The moment the plate triggered my timer, the gate would open, every time.

It works now that I replaced the two patrol with 8 individual skeletons. But I will check out the Grimrock remake (which I played through!) and see what I can find.

Groups of multiple monsters do not retain their id when the level is played. Each monster in the group is its own entity, and regardless of the id you gave the group, each monster will be created with numerical id like you get from e.g. using "spawn("snail")". If you need to refer to a monster in a group you'll have to find it by some other means and get the id from that.

You may be able to clone another skeleton, put those into a patrol, and add an OnDie hook to open the door.

minmay wrote:Groups of multiple monsters do not retain their id when the level is played. Each monster in the group is its own entity, and regardless of the id you gave the group, each monster will be created with numerical id like you get from e.g. using "spawn("snail")". If you need to refer to a monster in a group you'll have to find it by some other means and get the id from that.

Good to know - let's say I create a skeleton patrol I called operatingRoomPatrol1. Would each one be, perhaps "operatingRoomPatrol1_1", "operatingRoomPatrol1_2" and so on?

Darsithis wrote:

minmay wrote:Groups of multiple monsters do not retain their id when the level is played. Each monster in the group is its own entity, and regardless of the id you gave the group, each monster will be created with numerical id like you get from e.g. using "spawn("snail")". If you need to refer to a monster in a group you'll have to find it by some other means and get the id from that.

Good to know - let's say I create a skeleton patrol I called operatingRoomPatrol1. Would each one be, perhaps "operatingRoomPatrol1_1", "operatingRoomPatrol1_2" and so on?

No, they would be "37" and "38" and "39" and "40" or perhaps "5281" and "5282" and "5283" and "5284" or something similar.

Would there be a way to get those id from a collection entity such as "party.getChampion(1)"?