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Dead player comes back to live

by Thomas Huehn · in Torque Game Engine · 04/23/2007 (5:06 pm) · 1 replies

Some days ago i changed the %obj.setRepairRate(0); to %obj.setRepairRate(%this.repairRate / 63); in the script and all seams to work fine. Until i found out something is wrong and i didnt see why - i changed a lot since i set the repairrate ;)

After some debugging, i found out it has something to do with the mDamageState and the state did change from disable to enabled - enabled with a dead player ....
Maybe a bug (used 1.5) - maybe its because i added some stuff to shapeBase/player but the player repairs also if state="dead" and that caused strange behavior.

After I changed the statement in shapeBase.cc (processTick) from

if (mDataBlock->isInvincible == false )

to

if (mDataBlock->isInvincible == false && mDamageState == Enabled)


all works fine again - i hope ;)

Maybe somebody got the same strange behavior - and my post helps a little ..

greetings

thomas
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Torque Owner Tim Heldna
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04/23/2007 (8:40 pm)
I had the same problem using the repair function (on vehicles and players). Sometimes dead players would spring back to life (if they were healed before being killed) and vehicles would sometimes continuously regenerate health after being repaired.

I managed to fix it in script but can't remember exactly what I did. I think it had something to do with making sure the objects repair rate was reset to 0 at the right time.