Calling on a spawned item.

[Emera Nova]

So for testing purposes I'm attempting to get a dagger to be spawned from a spawner and have it land on a pressure plate. When it does a script is run to see if that dagger is present if it is open a door.
Problem is I don't know what the name of the newly spawned dagger is.

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function destroyObject()
   if findEntity("dagger_") ~= nil then
	dungeon_door_wooden_11:open()
   end
end

This is what I currently have running to test this out. I'm trying to get this idea to work so that I can move on to what I'll be implementing in on my next dungeon.

[minmay]

The "spawn" global function returns the object spawned. Consider using that instead. If you insist on using a spawner object, you will have to use Map:entitiesAt() on the spawner's square to find the item after it's spawned (use the spawner's onActivate connector).

[Emera Nova]

So I tried to put in this

function spawn()
spawn(dagger,7,12,18,2,1,Dagger)
end

And when I run that it throws up a giant error. I'm guessing my format on that is still incorrect ye?

[Dr.Disaster]

The object to spawn needs to be quoted like: spawn("dagger",7,12,18,2,1)
If the last and optional id parameter needs to be quoted should be easy to find out.
At least you need to make sure it's id is truely unique so using just "Dagger" might not do.

[Emera Nova]

So I have this code in

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function spawn()
	spawn("dagger",7,12,18,2,1,powerdagger)
end

when I went and ran it this happened

[alois]

First of all, it should be:

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function spawn()
   spawn("dagger",7,12,18,2,1,"powerdagger")
end

Then, if you call the function "spawn()", you are re-defining the grimrock "spawn" function; therefore, what happens when you call your function "spawn()" is that the function calls itself and then calls itself, and then calls itself..., and not the one you want; I suggest you change the function to

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function spawnDagger()
   spawn("dagger",7,12,18,2,1,"powerdagger")
end

Alois

[Dr.Disaster]

Aye, it's an infinite re-definition loop; should have seen that too but i did not look at the function name.
At least we know the modified spawn call worked

[Emera Nova]

Yay xD that fixed the problem..

Now I just have to see if I can finds my notes and figure out why I needed to figure out how to do that.. xD

For now at least I can spawn an item in at a location and then call on it.'

I step on a pressure plate and it triggers a script with this on it.

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function spawnDagger()
   spawn("dagger",7,12,18,2,1,"powerdagger")
end

The dagger falls and lands on floor trigger and causes this to happen.

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function checkObject()
   if findEntity("powerdagger") ~= nil then
	 powerdagger:destroy()
	dungeon_door_wooden_11.door:open()
   end
end

and now the damn door opens.. (I was having trouble getting it to open i forgot to give it the .door afterthe name duhh..)

[Zo Kath Ra]

You spawn a dagger that falls to the ground and then immediately disappears?

[Emera Nova]

Yes, I was just testing out how to get stuff to spawn in so I can use it for later stuff. I also wanted to test out calling on the stuff that I spawned since Im working with a dagger I just had it disappear aftwards to open the door. Could be anything really.