Elevators

[Peter Tigges]

Example Nova Orion Station (with example height values)

• 3 floors

  • 1st floor ( height 0 )
  • 2nd floor ( height 10 )
  • 3rd floor ( height 20 )

• all 3 floors share the same cell id (tube like covering all floors)

• elevators use the same cell for all floors except a different height value
• player will be “moved” vertically inside the same cell to a new height
• no use of ground floor … lowest floor is always 1 … above ones go +1 each
• going from 1st floor to 3rd floor will be like this => 1 to 2 , 2 to 3 and vice versa
• lowest floor cant have DOWN button
• highest floor cant have UP button
• floors between it will have UP and DOWN buttons

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Function:

Player stands in 1st floor (first screenshot) in front of UP button. As soon as he presses the UP button it gets type of button (UP or DOWN), cell_id and building template the character is currently being in ( in this case “object/building/content/nova_orion_station/shared_chapter_8_space_station.iff” ).

System now checks for a match in column button / template and from_cell_id. if positive then use the new height value in column to_height.

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to_cell_id is currently not being used since we use the same cell but in future we can/should be able to warp/teleport characters to different cells and positions. additional values for xyz will then be needed but we skip it for now

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Button template:

• object/tangible/terminal/terminal_elevator_up.iff
• object/tangible/terminal/terminal_elevator_down.iff

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Rule:

• range to button max 3m otherwise => too_far

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Sound effect:

• clienteffect/elevator_rise.cef
• clienteffect/elevator_descend.cef

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String:

• stf file => elevator_text
• highest_floor
• lowest_floor

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