Closing a door

[temnix]

In one of my mods the party is transported outside of the area to spots in front of the building where they were just now. One of the regions there runs a script that does the rest of the job: disables the travel region that leads inside the building and shuts the front door. This last part, with CloseDoor(), isn't working. I'm writing there the name of the correct door, there are no errors, but it simply doesn't shut. What could be causing this? And also, is it impossible in the BG version of the engine to disable a door so that it's no longer highlighted? I think Torment used to do that.

[Ardanis]

Doors don't close if there's an object inside of their blocking region. Can't remember if CloseDoor() gives a damn about it, though.

 

Not directly possible, although if you *really* want, then you can remove clickable polygon from your door entirely and instead add two another invisible door objects (say, Closed and Opened) with their "closed" polys matching the main door's closed and opened states and no polys for their opened state. Then you start with:

Main - closed (no poly), Closed - closed (visible clickable poly), Opened - opened (no poly)

When player clicks on Closed, its attached script does OpenDoor("Main") CloseDoor("Opened"), so now you have:

Main - opened (no poly), Closed - opened (no poly), Opened - closed (visible clickable poly)

Clicking on Opened similarly changes Main and Closed back to initial closed state.

When you want to disable Main entirely, just CloseDoor("Main") OpenDoor("Opened") OpenDoor("Closed"), so that the passage is blocked and no polys are active.

[temnix]

The second part's too complicated. But the first - there is no one blocking the door. The party is well away. It's just not getting shut.

[Guest tipun]

18 hours ago, temnix said:

The second part's too complicated. But the first - there is no one blocking the door. The party is well away. It's just not getting shut.

Is there a Door Locked flag on the door?

[temnix]

No. I do Lock it myself, but only after the CloseDoor action. I need to do some more testing of this, with other doors, but it should be easy. By the way, can someone confirm that a door with Lock difficulty 100 gives the "This door does not have a conventional lock and may be warded..." message? I get that message even without setting "Magic lock."

[Ardanis]

4 hours ago, temnix said:

By the way, can someone confirm that a door with Lock difficulty 100 gives the "This door does not have a conventional lock and may be warded..." message?

This is a thing, yes. You can pick a lock with difficulty 98, 99, 101, 102 etc. but not 100.

[temnix]

And that is what gives the message and makes Knock ineffective, or does "Magic lock" do all that?

[Ardanis]

Yes