A way to have ladder regions *not* be automatic?

[Aloys]

I hate the way the ladders work. Many times I need to walk near one but I don't want to climb it, but if I walk just one inch too close, bam! You have to wait until the avar is done with his climbing animation, then you have to get down, and even when you are down you need to go away of the ladder and make sure you don't accidentally climb it up again. These things are just utterly agravating.. And even if you make the 'enter/exit'' regions very small there's always a risk of entering them accidentally.

So. Would there be a way to turn those automatic regions into click regions? Ie; you need to actually click on the ladder to activate it.

[Chacal]

/nods vigorous approval

[Goofy]

just out of curosity is there a way to check which way the avatars facing? Say if the avatar is not facing the ladder nothing happens, but if the avatar is close enough and is facing the right direction then it climbs the ladder. Make it so that if those two conditions aren't met then you won't climb the ladder.

[D'Lanor]

just out of curosity is there a way to check which way the avatars facing? Say if the avatar is not facing the ladder nothing happens, but if the avatar is close enough and is facing the right direction then it climbs the ladder. Make it so that if those two conditions aren't met then you won't climb the ladder.

Plasma can do that. But I think the facing condition is currently somewhat broken.

PyPRP sets the facing condition by default on clickable objects. Only... it does not seem to work.

[Trylon]

Probaby because it also sets setisfied to true.. (Which is copied from most of cyan's ages)

[D'Lanor]

Ok, so what you are saying is that we should override that with alcscript by setting satisfied to false?

[Trylon]

yeah, probably.

[Robert The Rebuilder]

I just tried that - setting satisfied to false for the facing conditional object in alc_QuickScripts.py fin QuickScript_SimpleClickable. And it still does not require you to face the object.

Any other ideas on how to get it to work?

[Nadnerb]

Odd, the facing conditional for ladders works for me. Of course, I use the auto ladders, and don't manually create climbing regions.

Anyway, it should be possible to make clickable ladders, but you'll have to alcscript the whole thing yourself.

[Robert The Rebuilder]

Odd, the facing conditional for ladders works for me. Of course, I use the auto ladders, and don't manually create climbing regions.

Anyway, it should be possible to make clickable ladders, but you'll have to alcscript the whole thing yourself.

Sorry for the confusion, Nabderb: I was testing it on the clickables, such as the linking books in Prin Pahts. Yes, the ladders facing conditionals do work.