So I want to make a weapon called a Cage Mine for BrutalFront and a few other projects. Basically, you place a mine-type thing. When stepped on, a cage appears around you and you can't get out. So people could shoot you or you could suicide. People ask, why not just have a normal mine? Answer: cause I like this better.

But anyway that's not what it's about. Here's the script I wrote up for it:
Now, I've got most of it figured out but what troubles me is the

That's hopefully taking any object with the odf name "the_cage_odf" and setting it as variable trap, then later I use trap when I get the object's matrix and teleport it to object's matrix (where object is the victim).

I'm pretty sure something's wrong with the way I set that up, but what is it? Should I use the odf name of the trap, or a unique ZE name? And did I set it as the variable trap correctly?

your problem:

trap == "the_cage_odf"

the lua script registers that as an equality and doesn't process it. Try removing 1 of your " = "s.

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an equality and doesn't process it.

my bad... i meant to say "a comment and doesn't process it"

Fiodis wrote:That's hopefully taking any object with the odf name "the_cage_odf" and setting it as variable trap, then later I use trap ...

Nope, thats just setting the trap variable to the string the_cage_odf (after you fix the == problem).
What you need to do is create and spawn a new trap object.

I'm doing something similar, try modifying this:

Thanks for that, it looks like it would work.

Hold on, a thought just struck me: when I use GetObjectLastHitWeaponClass, what do I put? The weapon that the damager used was the mine dispenser, but it's the mine itself that's blowing up and hurting the victim. Does that mean the mine is the damager, or the mine is the weapon?

Test it and find out.