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Areas Areas are oblong-shaped collision zones which can trigger callbacks when the player or other objects enter them; they are also often used as position markers for things spawned in code such as sounds or particle effects. HPL3 ships with several different area types - here's a quick summary of them and of some of their properties.

2013-02-18T16:02:33+00:00 2013-02-18T16:02:33+00:00 https://oldwiki.frictionalgames.com/hpl3/game/commandline?rev=1361203353&do=diff

Command Line Here is a list of all the different commandline commands that exist. -user This starts the game with a different user name. If not set, game is started with “Default”. -cfg This changes the main config file that is used when starting the game. default is

2015-09-25T07:33:28+00:00 2015-09-25T07:33:28+00:00 https://oldwiki.frictionalgames.com/hpl3/game/dev_features?rev=1443166408&do=diff

Dev Features Keyboard shortcuts F1 - Debug Menu If the settings file has DebugMenu set to true, then the debug menu can be accessed. Here lots of nice stuff can be found. In order for most of the other shortcuts here to work, DebugMenu must be set to true.

2015-09-17T10:18:56+00:00 2015-09-17T10:18:56+00:00 https://oldwiki.frictionalgames.com/hpl3/game/dialoghandler?rev=1442485136&do=diff

Dialog Handler Overview The dialog handler is a used to create dialog that support basic branching behavior. If you want to do straight forward dialogs that have no branching at all, you might as well just call the Voice Handler directly. But if there are some branching, even simple like breaking the dialog if the player stop looking at a character, then the Dialog Handler is what you want.

2015-09-17T10:19:24+00:00 2015-09-17T10:19:24+00:00 https://oldwiki.frictionalgames.com/hpl3/game/eventdb?rev=1442485164&do=diff

Event Database (This is not used in SOMA.) Overview The event database is a sort of hidden system inside the game that can be used to trigger all kinds of stuff. The current main usage is with the voicesystem, where it is used to trigger different voices and handles dynamic dialog flow.

2015-09-17T10:24:00+00:00 2015-09-17T10:24:00+00:00 https://oldwiki.frictionalgames.com/hpl3/game/faq?rev=1442485440&do=diff

FAQ Scripting Q: When an entity with many bodies is attached to a sticky area it doesn't work to make it a static collider? A: Use a timer so it is set to static collider half a second or so after it has attached to the sticky area. The sticky area and static colliders overlaps in usage of some physics settings, so the sticky area needs to be done before you set the body as static.

2015-09-17T10:14:15+00:00 2015-09-17T10:14:15+00:00 https://oldwiki.frictionalgames.com/hpl3/game/gui?rev=1442484855&do=diff

Gui Overview There are currently two GUI-systems in the engine. The normal one which is called “retained” or just the “normal” GUI. This works by creating all the assets up-front and then works by having special callbacks for all of the GUI

2012-10-11T14:20:39+00:00 2012-10-11T14:20:39+00:00 https://oldwiki.frictionalgames.com/hpl3/game/guides?rev=1349965239&do=diff

Guides Here is a collection of guides that span the most important activities. Artist's Guide Cover how to deal with entities, static objects, etc. Essential reading for anyone starting doing art. Scripter's Guide Much needed info for anyone who wants to do scripting.

2015-03-01T22:04:54+00:00 2015-03-01T22:04:54+00:00 https://oldwiki.frictionalgames.com/hpl3/game/input_recording?rev=1425247494&do=diff

Input Recording Input recording lets you record all input while playing. The data get saved to a “.input” file that can then be loaded and played back to reproduce the input. Input recording can be combined with a save file to reproduce a playthrough of a section of the game.

2015-09-17T10:49:53+00:00 2015-09-17T10:49:53+00:00 https://oldwiki.frictionalgames.com/hpl3/game/map?rev=1442486993&do=diff

Map Overview General This is the basic structure for a level script. It should control all level specific code. Callback Methods These are the methods that are called from the Map: void Setup() Called every time a map is loaded. Called before OnStart

2015-09-18T10:41:06+00:00 2015-09-18T10:41:06+00:00 https://oldwiki.frictionalgames.com/hpl3/game/prop_types?rev=1442572866&do=diff

Prop Types Most props can be manipulated in some way using Prop_ helper functions (and normal Entity_ helper functions). Prop_Button A button that can be locked, disabled or enabled. Can be controlled through Button_ helper functions. Prop_CatherineTool

2015-09-17T10:12:46+00:00 2015-09-17T10:12:46+00:00 https://oldwiki.frictionalgames.com/hpl3/game/readables?rev=1442484766&do=diff

Readables This doc details the options for letting the user read text on various prop types. Readable Props Prop_Readables have been extended. They now support rotation (through mouse, or right-stick, or d-pad), and (only) two text entries, one for the front and one for the back. If you rotate to the appropriate side and a text entry is available for it, a prompt is shown (press interact to read) and the player can press to see the text.

2017-04-26T06:57:15+00:00 2017-04-26T06:57:15+00:00 https://oldwiki.frictionalgames.com/hpl3/game/scripting?rev=1493189835&do=diff

Scripting Important notes Avoid Empty Methods Never implement an empty callback method. Calling the method takes quite a bit of cpu power compared to just skipping it. This is especially important for Update, PostUpdate, OnDraw and the like that are called every update / frame.

2016-07-06T08:49:41+00:00 2016-07-06T08:49:41+00:00 https://oldwiki.frictionalgames.com/hpl3/game/setup?rev=1467794981&do=diff

Setup Getting started Before doing anything with the game there are a few things you need to do. First up, start “SomaDev.bat”. This is dev version of the game and is used whenever you do actual development. When proper testing is to be made, run Soma.exe. Having done this, navigate to

2014-02-06T14:31:23+00:00 2014-02-06T14:31:23+00:00 https://oldwiki.frictionalgames.com/hpl3/game/soundscapearea?rev=1391697083&do=diff

Soundscape Area Overview The soundscape area is meant to be a sort of one-in-all solution to set up much of the needed background sound data. It can set reverb, play ambient track, change volume on sounds and turn on/off sound entities. Make sure you know how the areas work before start placing sounds in a level.

2013-03-01T14:01:11+00:00 2013-03-01T14:01:11+00:00 https://oldwiki.frictionalgames.com/hpl3/game/url_protocol?rev=1362146471&do=diff

URL Protocol An URL protocol is a way to link to a application from a webpage. We have support for this in both Depth and the ModelViewer. It can be used to give links to entities or map positions when giving feedback. Installation Download the .bat file and place it in depth/redist/ folder and run it. This will link the protocol to the correct directory and files.

2015-09-17T10:53:24+00:00 2015-09-17T10:53:24+00:00 https://oldwiki.frictionalgames.com/hpl3/game/voicehandler?rev=1442487204&do=diff

Voice Handler Overview The voice handler is basically a simplified way in which to play complex sound events that deal with voices. It is also a way to easily handle subtitles along with the voices and play special effects track along with them. It has a queue system and keeps track of how many times a voice has been played.