Effects Box

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Hey,

I was always using the normal way to draw boxes with effects.box,
but now im getting some weird errors which says "Only 3 keywords are avaible, 18 were given"

[Ayuto]

Might want to provide the full traceback and code to reproduce the issue? Note that the effects package has been updated (see also: Development status update (June 2016). It now requires you to specify the keywords of the temporary entity "BeamPoints".

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    box(RecipientFilter(), 10, self.coord1, self.coord2, beam_model.index, beam_model.index, 0, 255, 5, 1, 1, 3, 0, r, g, b, 255, 1)

TypeError: box() takes 3 positional arguments but 18 were given



[Ayuto]

Well, that's not the full traceback, but like I said you need to specify the keywords for the temporary entity BeamPoints.

Example:

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from effects import box
from filters.recipients import RecipientFilter
from engines.precache import Model
from events import Event
from players.entity import Player

model = Model('sprites/laser.vmt')

@Event('player_say')
def player_say(event):
    player = Player.from_userid(event['userid'])
    box(
        RecipientFilter(),
        player.origin,
        player.view_coordinates,
        alpha=255,
        blue=0,
        green=0,
        red=255,
        amplitude=0,
        end_width=1,
        life_time=7,
        start_width=1,
        fade_length=0,
        flags=0,
        frame_rate=255,
        halo=model,
        model=model,
        start_frame=0
    )