Escorts and their grrness.

[Darmian]

 I'm running into a bit of circular logic with an escort.  So, I meet the escort, way point appears and you have to lead the escort to the glowie.  However my tester buddy meets escort, ignores him and runs off to click the glowie. Leaving a lost escort wandering and missing some clues.  The glowie should spawn off collecting the escort, so therefore it's active, but I have to set it for Mission Begins or it triggers circular logic failures.  How do I get it to only become active AFTER the escort reaches it?  I have swapped around trigger points but I keep getting a circular logic argument if I do it any way other than originally described. So it has to be when Mission Begins.  If I choose when Escort is completed I get circular logic, if I choose when escort is rescued I get circular logic.  Bah. Changing the glowie to a fade in/does not fade in object makes no difference.

 

Ok, a kludgy workaround is having a second glowie that is actually the vital one and IT activates when the Escort reaches the first glowie, regardless of whether the player has already clicked it or not. Best to have that first one stay ON the map then!  Grr.

 

So I posit we need a third option there. Object becomes active when and only when Escort reaches said object.

 

Now, if it does this already and I'm wasting everyone's time then I'll happily clam up provided you all tell me what the fix is 🙂

 

Edited August 19, 2020 by Darmian

[cranebump]

I think you may need a second Glowie, but I’d have to try it myself to see.

 

Or maybe a map switch? In the one successful escort mish I’ve scripted (the Willie Sullivan one you’ve played), the glowie to which the escort is keyed spawns behind a sliding door. That may be a way of simulating the effect you want, though you’d have to rifle through some maps, and run enough tests to get the consistent placement (and we know how scattershot that can be).:-)

[Greycat]

I wouldn't object to that being a trigger. About the closest way of doing it that's in there now I can think of is lead escort to door - that triggers the glowie ("thanks, now that I'm sure they can't get the macguffin code, here it is.")

[Darmian]

That kinda works. I just have an escort that doesn't need saving or rescuing.