Activate/Deactivate object does nothing

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Activate/Deactivate object does nothing

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Does anyone have experience getting ActivateObject to work in their scripts? I need to turn on/off objects for different objectives and for some reason it just doesn't work. I've tried to use Kill/RespawnObject and SetProperty to effectively do the same thing, but the way those work is just different enough to make them unsuitable for my needs. I can add a more situational example if it helps, but basically I just need certain objects to "not exist" until triggered by an event... which is like, the textbook use of ActivateObject I'm pretty sure.

Anyway, I'd appreciate any help. Btw, nothing relevant in the error log.
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Re: Activate/Deactivate object does nothing

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Have you considered using CreateEntity instead?
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Re: Activate/Deactivate object does nothing

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Nope, but that looks very promising. I'll give it a shot!
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Re: Activate/Deactivate object does nothing

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Pretty sure ActivateObject actually just activates the physics system for that object
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Re: Activate/Deactivate object does nothing

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You can also have the item alive and then use these two functions to essentially kill it:

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SetProperty("object", "IsVisible", 0)
SetProperty("object", "IsCollidable", 0)
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Re: Activate/Deactivate object does nothing

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Calrissian97 wrote:Pretty sure ActivateObject actually just activates the physics system for that object
Interesting! I'll have to mess around with this.
AnthonyBF2 wrote:You can also have the item alive and then use these two functions to essentially kill it:

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SetProperty("object", "IsVisible", 0)
SetProperty("object", "IsCollidable", 0)
I considered using IsVisible but I didn't know IsCollidable existed too - that's a game changer. Will definitely try this one as well.

Thank you all for the advice!
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