Script for one stage only

[Mardion]

Hi all. After reading up on the manuals, I'm still unsure on how to create a script that will be active for the entirety of a stage, and that stage only. Can someone please tell me if that is possible?

Context (probably unneeded) : I've created submission-type grabs from which the player has to hit certain buttons to escape ; even if their health becomes zero they still cannot escape until they hit those buttons (and then they can die in peace). But there's one specific stage in which I want to surprise the player ; in that one when their health reaches zero, they lose a life and their health shoots back to 100% *while they're still trapped in this grab*. It's easy enough to create script that sets lives to lives-1 and health equal to maxhealth, but how do I make that script valid just in that one specific stage?

 

[DCurrent]

Welcome to the community @Mardion. There are several ways you could do this. It would help if we knew how you are handling your submission script in all the other stages.

DC

 

[Mardion]

Thanks for replying. And here I thought my context was useless Well, if it helps : For the duration of the submission grab, damage is dealt via a "subdamage" script (in escript.c) which makes sure that the grabbed entity's health never drops below 1 :

void subdamage(int Damage){
void TargetHealth = getentityproperty(target,"health");
if(TargetHealth > Damage)
{
changeentityproperty(target, "health", TargetHealth - Damage);
} else {
changeentityproperty(target, "health", 1);
}}

When the player escapes the submission, I insert a separate instance of 2 damage , which is enough to kill them if they were at 1.

So, can you think of a way in which this behavior could change for one specific stage, and for that stage only?

 

[Bloodbane]

It's doable, what you need to declare something to mark the stage, either with global variable or branch name. Then acquire those mark in the script to allow/disallow something.
To acquire current branch name with script, here's how to do it:

void Stage = openborvariant("current_branch");

Here's example on how to use it:

  if(Stage == "Ex"){
// run special script
  } else {
// run regular script
  }

If current branch name is Ex, it will run special script instead of regular script.
This script could crash if current level/stage doesn't have branch name declared though.