[Guide] LUA Portals

[Gastricpenguin]

Creating a Portal using LUA
By Gastricpenguin

Since we know making portals straight from the DB is only so limited, we can begin to take an easier approach and use LUA to make portals instead of wasting spells.

Step 1, Getting the coordinates
Very simple, go ingame and find the place you want the portal to lead to. Once there use the .gps command, and copy down: The map #, X, Y, and Z coordinates.

Step 2, Creating the LUA script
Open up any text editor (like notepad), then copy and paste the following code:

function Teleporting_onUse (pUnit, Event, pMisc)
pMisc:Teleport (MAPID, X, Y, Z)
end
RegisterGameObjectEvent (ENTRY, 2, "Teleporting_onUse")

NOTE: Anything highlighted in green, such as Teleporting_onUse MUST be different for every portal!

You can change "Teleporting_onUse" on the top line to anything you want, but make sure it says the same thing in the bottom line. Entering the coordinates into the script should be self explanitory. Just note that "ENTRY" must be the same value as the ENTRY in your gameobject. Save this as a .lua and put it in your scripts folder

Step 3, Creating the Gameobject
Here is a simple template to create your gameobject:

INSERT INTO gameobject_names
(entry, Type, DisplayID, Name, spellfocus, sound1, sound2, sound3, sound4, sound5, sound6, sound7, sound8, sound9, unknown1, unknown2, unknown3, unknown4, unknown5, unknown6, unknown7, unknown8, unknown9, unknown10, unknown11, unknown12, unknown13, unknown14)
VALUES
(ENTRY, 4, DISPLAYID, "NAME", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);

Just change ENTRY to the number you used to fill in for ENTRY in the Lua script. You can rename the portal to anything you want to aswell.

If you have any errors or problems, show me your script and Gameobject and i will fix them

[Hellgawd]

GASTRIC, I LOVE YOU! <3 +Rep
Edit: I gotta spread it around. =[

[Chargar]

This is very simple lol. Thanks for posting it
+Rep!

[Gastricpenguin]

Im becoming a LUA major :P
There is no end to my reign of awesome

[Spartansp]

LOL gastric you are one of the dew people here that i admire continue with all your hard working

[Spartansp]

i have only a question in type it is not 22 or 27 or something like that?

[Hellgawd]

Gastric, you will be legendary soon enough.

[Rouslan]

Yes i agree with others you are a great help and wihtout your posts i dont know what i would do.

I have one favour to ask,

Can you please make 2 portals for me that lead to gurubashi and nagrand arenas?> iam hosting my owns erver but thats the only think i am having problems with,, is anyway you can premake this for me so i can jsut Querriie.. if you can i would love you and worship you!

+4 rep

thank you

[The Kingofbeast]

For the guy above, how can you +4 rep if you only have 1 rep power?

XD, nice Gastric, +Rep

EDIT: Must spread the rep first >.>

[secretdragon008]

Awsome,ty for saving my spells gastric.
i want to rep you,but i need to spread some around first.

to spartansp,yes i think its 22.it was that before on the teleport spells.
But i dont know if it has changed.

[Spartansp]

also i dont know i have done everything i needed now where fo i put the .lua things just in my \ascent\trunk\src\scripts folder o where i have to put that???

[Gastricpenguin]

Yes, Lua scripts go in the scripts folder, but your core needs to have LUA enabled (All of my compiles do)

[Spartansp]

how can i enable lua i use a guide http://www.mmowned.com/forums/ascent...lf-photos.html to compile ascent but how do i enable lua scripts..??

[Gastricpenguin]

You could just download my newest core :d
but if you insist, you need to go in "AscentConfig.h" and remove the "//" in front of: #define ENABLE_LUA_SCRIPTING 1

[Spartansp]

ok ill try thanks for your help