Call of duty bo3: ZM Exploders

Intro

Exploders are a way to switch on/off a Light or FX placed in a map via script

In Radiant

• For a light or FX the method is the same, place the light or FX and set its values as you normally would
• Open up the Exploder Manager in Radiant by Right clicking the main tool bar and selecting "Exploder Manager"

• This will open this window

• Select the light you created and in the Exploder Manager click on "New Exploder from Selected"
• You will see a dialog to pick a name for the Exploder, this is IMPORTANT as its the name you will use in the scripting part; In this example we name it "light_test"

• Now the light and Exploder Manager looks like this

Note 1: that the Default State is False = ON which means that the Exploder will start OFF and switch ON when called via script. 

Note 2: there are a number of other settings in the Exploder Manager such as delay, blend, etc. you may want to play with those to see how they work

Note 3: You can have more than one Exploder using the same Exploder name, these will all be switched on/off from script

• You can test the exploder using the PLAY/STOP button after selecting it in the Exploder Manager

• Save your map

In Script

• Open your Map GSC located in Call of Duty Black Ops III\usermaps\zm_test\scripts\zm\
• The next part will depend on what you want to achieve with the Exploder

Advanced

If you are familiar with scripts and want to switch the light on after a certain scripted event that you know how to locate then just use this command:

// Exploder ON
exploder::exploder( "light_test" );

• If you need to turn it off then use this:

// Exploder OFF
exploder::kill_exploder( "light_test" );

Turn on Exploder after Power ON

If you want to turn on your exploder(s) after the Power is switched on:

• Open your Map GSC and locate

zm_usermap::main();

• After this add this new function

level thread exploder_watch();

• on the end of your script add the new Function

function exploder_watch()
{
    level endon ("game_ended");
    
    level waittill("power_on");
    
    // Exploder ON
    exploder::exploder( "light_test" );
}