Some sort of trap with an automatically exploding timebomb after 10 seconds?

[mynameaborat]

Hey can somebody teach me how to make a timebomb with a ranger to start the countdown instead of a button? and when it gets to 0 it stops and resets itself to ten? That would be awesome because I have no idea how to do that.
Basically I would put it into a n00b trap- like you know- the one made by Wheeze - [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHjYWrwkQAk]YouTube - GMod Wire Tutorial #3 - Noob Trap - By Wheeze[/ame]
so I would trap people in the n00b trap and a timebomb would start counting down as soon as they got in.

I just can't figure out how to make timebombs work with rangers instead of buttons.

[NnyAskC]

Hey can somebody teach me how to make a timebomb with a ranger to start the countdown instead of a button? and when it gets to 0 it stops and resets itself to ten? That would be awesome because I have no idea how to do that.
Basically I would put it into a n00b trap- like you know- the one made by Wheeze - YouTube - GMod Wire Tutorial #3 - Noob Trap - By Wheeze
so I would trap people in the n00b trap and a timebomb would start counting down as soon as they got in.

I just can't figure out how to make timebombs work with rangers instead of buttons.

Use a delay chip. It's under time.

[mynameaborat]

Use a delay chip. It's under time.

Explain please?

[ildreancipher]

Ok so you put a ranger in the n00b trap and find out the range to the other side, then wire the ranger to a less than comparison gate with the ranger comparing to a constant value of whatever the ranger would be without someone in the trap.

So say the trap was 100.5 units wide, the constant value needs to be rounded down to something smaller than that (like 100). Then when someone steps into the trap, the ranger is less than the constant value. You wire the comparison chip to wherever the button would have been wired in the tutorial.

I think -orb-'s timed explosive tutorial might also be helpful to watch.

[-=Fox=-]

A basic noob trap can be made pretty easily with the E-gate, as a demo, I'll make one :lol:

To use copy this to notepad, save it, then it goes into your Garry's Mod folder -> Data -> Expression Gate

N@Noob Trap
I@Ranger
O@Explode
#Let's create a timing function set to pulse at 1 second
interval(1000)
#Keep track of your timer, by having it increment a value.
#Also have it wait for input from a Ranger.
clk() & Ranger > 0 -> A += 1;
#Reset the timer when it hits 4 seconds (so it counts 3 full seconds).
A == 4 -> A = 0;
#Give a value to compare the timer to so that it counts down.
#Subtract the incrementing value against the constant value.
B = 3 - A
#Set Explode to default to 0 then, Set teh Bomb
Explode = 0, B == 0 -> Explode = 1;

Wire the wired explosive to Explode and the Ranger input to a Ranger set to find distance. That should do it (untested). So when the ranger has something in front of it, the timer will count down in about 3 seconds then trigger the explosive.

Let me know how it works, I can't test it at the moment :lol:

[IEF015]

ZOMG, one more post fox.

[mynameaborat]

Ok so you put a ranger in the n00b trap and find out the range to the other side, then wire the ranger to a less than comparison gate with the ranger comparing to a constant value of whatever the ranger would be without someone in the trap.

So say the trap was 100.5 units wide, the constant value needs to be rounded down to something smaller than that (like 100). Then when someone steps into the trap, the ranger is less than the constant value. You wire the comparison chip to wherever the button would have been wired in the tutorial.

I think -orb-'s timed explosive tutorial might also be helpful to watch.

Yes I know I have watched it and made a 10 second timebomb but this is different. I already made the n00b trap itself I'll get a screenie :

Oh by the way i fixed the color on the wall with the hydraulic so you guys could see it. I added a ranger in the n00b trap so if you walk too far in you will explode. Also next to the LOL NOOB text screen are two "Deactivate" buttons- one sets off a turret and the other sets off an explosive. I was thinking about taking out the explosive ranger thing and just having one "Deactivate" button which would start the timer but I kinda wanted one that would start immediately the second you went in the n00b trap.
Edit: There are two invisible explosives inside at the corners of the walls so you won't know there are explosives when you walk in

A basic noob trap can be made pretty easily with the E-gate, as a demo, I'll make one :lol:

To use copy this to notepad, save it, then it goes into your Garry's Mod folder -> Data -> Expression Gate

N@Noob Trap
I@Ranger
O@Explode
#Let's create a timing function set to pulse at 1 second
interval(1000)
#Keep track of your timer, by having it increment a value.
#Also have it wait for input from a Ranger.
clk() & Ranger > 0 -> A += 1;
#Reset the timer when it hits 4 seconds (so it counts 3 full seconds).
A == 4 -> A = 0;
#Give a value to compare the timer to so that it counts down.
#Subtract the incrementing value against the constant value.
B = 3 - A
#Set Explode to default to 0 then, Set teh Bomb
Explode = 0, B == 0 -> Explode = 1;

Wire the wired explosive to Explode and the Ranger input to a Ranger set to find distance. That should do it (untested). So when the ranger has something in front of it, the timer will count down in about 3 seconds then trigger the explosive.

Let me know how it works, I can't test it at the moment :lol:

Holy christ you are good at wire. I'm going to try that out and see if it works.
By the way, does this replace / override all the other chips that Orb had in his tutorial? So it would be a lot simpler?

[-=Fox=-]

Meh, I'm pretty good, get someone like BP or Erkle and some of other people here and they're on a class of their own.

I'm not sure what feature set that Orb has in his tutorial, If I knew what features/capabilities it had I can probably duplicate them.

[mynameaborat]

Ok so I tried it out and I couldn't get it to validate or spawn- it kept saying "Unexpected character (.) at line 4" - so then I deleted the period at the end of line 4
Then it gave me some other crap that wouldnt go away even if I did what it said.

[-=Fox=-]

Ok, try and remove the commented lines in the text file (stuff that has a # in front)
That's probably the issue.