Buttons: Difference between revisions

'''Buttons''' are utility tiles connected to one or more other tiles, such as walls, monsters, traps, wiring, clone machines and more. The color of a button determines its specific function, however all buttons share the following characteristics:

* Buttons are pressed when [[Chip]], [[Melinda]], a [[Block|block]] or any monster enters the same tile as a button.

* Buttons can be held down as long as the player, a block or any monster remains on the same tile. Holding down a button may have no effect depending on the color button and to what the button is connected.  

* In most versions of the game, an audible noise is made when a button is pressed. One notable exception is the green button in the original Microsoft version of [[Chip's Challenge 1]]. This noise can be helpful feedback if a button is being pressed out of sight of the player.

== Machine Buttons ==

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If a level designer connects a red button to more than one clone machine, only the first connection is valid. To change the connection to a different clone machine in a [[level editor]], either erase the clone machine and red button and reconnect them (in [[ChipEdit]]), or go to the "Clone Connections" menu and disconnect the tiles (in [[CCEdit]] or [[CCLD]]). In addition, ChipEdit will automatically connect a clone button to a clone machine if one is created ''directly'' after the other.

Under the [[Ruleset|pedantic Lynx ruleset]] and in [[Chip's Challenge 2]], red buttons are connected to the next clone machine in [[reading order]] at the start of the level. In Chip's Challenge 2, red buttons cannot be [[Wire|wired]] to clone machines, but [[Button#Pink_button|pink buttons]] can.

If the red button is connected to a monster that is not in the monster list, the red button will add that monster to the [[monster list]] and also cause it to start moving in the specified direction, assuming that move is legal. If the move is illegal, or if the monster is already in the monster list, the red button will have no effect.

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The '''brown button''' or '''trap button''' releases the [[trap]] to which it is connected, if any, when pressed by any [[object]]. If the brown button does not have a connected trap, it has no effect when stepped on. More than one brown button can release the same trap, but more than one trap cannot be released by the same button.

Under the [[ruleset|pedantic Lynx ruleset]] and in [[Chip's Challenge 2]], brown buttons are connected to the next trap in reading order at the start of the level. In [[Chip's Challenge 2]], brown buttons cannot be [[Wire|wired]] to traps, but [[Button#Pink_button|pink buttons]] can.

== State Toggling Buttons ==

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The '''gray button''' is a button introduced in [[Chip's Challenge 2]]. It changes the state of objects in a 5 by 5 square centered at the button, even if the tiles are already [[Wire|wired]]. Tiles that can be changed include [[Toggle wall|toggle walls]], [[Flame jet]]s, [[Force floor|force floors]] (inverses direction), [[Swivel door|swivel doors]], and [[Train track|train tracks]]. [[Clone machine]]s will be activated by gray buttons, even though they have no distinct "switched" state. [[Trap|Traps]], [[Green chip|green chips]], and [[Green bomb|green bombs]] are not affected by gray buttons.

 

== Tank Control Buttons ==

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The '''blue button''', sometimes called a '''tank button''', reverses the direction of all moving [[tank|tanks]], with some exceptions, in the current level when stepped on. If there are no moving tanks remaining in the level, with one of the same exceptions, the blue button has no effect.

Tanks will not be reversed if they are standing on [[ice]] or [[force floor|force floors]], unless Chip touched the blue button on his initial move, or landed on it after sliding over one ice, force floor, or [[teleport]]. Tanks standing on [[clone machine|clone machines]] will only switch in the MS version or the most recent [[Tile World]] emulation, and only under specialized circumstances. When this happens, the [[Frankenstein Glitch]] has occurred. This glitch is seen in [[David Stolp]]'s ''table of contents'' and ''ode to a cloned tank, pointed the wrong way''.

The '''yellow button''' is a button introduced in [[Chip's Challenge 2]]. When pressed, every [[yellow tank]] in the level will attempt to move in the same direction as the object that pressed it. If the button is immediately surrounded by any walls such that pressing the button from a certain direction is obstructed, the yellow tanks cannot be moved in that direction with that button.

== Wiring Buttons ==

The '''switch''' is a special tile in Chip's Challenge 2. When set to the ''on'' position, a current will be output through wire that is connected to the switch. When set to the ''off'' position, no current will be output. Switches can be toggled by any movable object.