specific food on alter triggers two doors, help?

[wolfee]

I want to have an alter accept a specific kind of food, (snail_slice for this example) and trigger two doors to open. I've been looking at a few example functions but no luck so far. This is what I have so far:
The door ID's are "feedmeDoor_1" and "feedmeDoor_2".
The alter ID is "altar_accept_flesh".
The script_entity is this:

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function feedme()
   -- iterate through all contained items on alcove, checking for a matching name
   for i in alter_accept_flesh:containedItems() do
      if i.name == "snail_slice" then
         feedmeDoor_1:open
       else
         feedmeDoor_1:close
      end
   end
end

Right now I'm just trying to get one door to work but I tried using "and feedmeDoor_2:open" with no luck either.
Any help appreciated. Almost done with the dungeon!

[Komag]

That looks fine to me. You probably just need to make sure your altar is set correctly. You want to add a connection to the altar, "any", "yourScript", "feedme". Be sure your altar is set to "activate always" in this case

[wolfee]

I keep getting "function arguement expected near 'else'". If I get rid if the 'else', it moves down to the "end" and gives an error for that. I set up a connector to my script_entity_5 which has the function "feedme" and I set the event to "any" and the altar to "always activate". The function itself is wrong somehow.

[Komag]

Oh yeah, I sometimes forget those myself! You need () after open and close:
open()

close()

[wolfee]

Ok awesome, that worked ... but now I get "attempt to index global 'altar_accept_flesh' (a nil value)" as soon as I put a piece of snail_slice on the altar.

Disclaimer: I'm a DBA that really likes dungeon crawler games. Sorry if I don't know squat about scripting but the idea of making my own dungeon was too much to pass up

[wolfee]

Just for kicks I made the altar an alcove and it is working. Not sure why, but that's ok. Now I just need to get it to open two doors at the same time.

[Komag]

I missed it before - you had the spelling different, "altar" and "alter" (keep them both "altar")

to open two doors just add another line
door1:open()
door2:open()

[Ixnatifual]

You probably want to make the loop end if you find the food piece so another item in the alcove doesn't cause the door to shut if there's multiple items.

[Komag]

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function feedme()
   -- iterate through all contained items on alcove, checking for a matching name
   for i in altar_accept_flesh:containedItems() do
      if i.name == "snail_slice" then
         feedmeDoor_1:open()
         feedmeDoor_2:open()
         return
       else
         feedmeDoor_1:close()
         feedmeDoor_2:close()
      end
   end
end