Posting commonly used scripts in one area

[TheEnlightenedFlorist]

Originally Posted by Ribbs67

Thanks EF!
I will give it a shot. Are you using any triggers along with the scripts? I noticed that in some missions there were triggers..but no actions??.... I thought for a trigger to work it needed a "trigger and "action" both with the same name..could be wrong tho.

Also what does compile do..when you right click in the script tab box?

In one of my missions I have a Small battle going on in which I have like 4 different "triggers" with 4 different "actions. Now do the triggers have to happen in "order?, or can this be used as a random occurrence ?
IE ..2 110's take off to bomb an RAF airfield. if they ar successful in eliminating the target..(AAA and a Bedford) then a flight of 109's spawn and join the battle. if the player shoots down both 110's before they get the AAA then a flight of Hurri's spawn.
In the example above the 110's spawning the other 110.s is above the Spits spawning the Hurri's. My question is to you , if the spits shoot the 110's first..will they spawn the Hurri's or will it not happen because the first Trigger in line was not "triggered" so to speak.. I hope I didnt lose you on the example...heh

Ribbs

Triggers and actions are completely unrelated. Think of it like this: Triggers are a mission telling you that something has happened, actions are you telling a mission to do something.

When a trigger is triggered, all it does is call a certain method. In that method, you can determine what trigger was called and what, if anything, to do about it. In the examples you've seen, when a trigger was triggered, an action was called. Technically, they don't have to have the same name, it just makes the coding a bit easier. It doesn't always have to work that way, though. When a trigger is triggered, I could do anything I want like loading a mission, sending a message to players, or destroying an aircraft.

Likewise, an action can be called at any time like after a certain amount of time, a certain player joins, or a certain type of aircraft is spawned.

Triggers don't have to happen in any sort of order. If you have a trigger for when a certain group of aircraft is destroyed, it will be triggered whenever those aircraft are destroyed. It depends on nothing else.

Unfortunately, I've found that triggers aren't always reliable. At least in the two instances I was using them for in Operation Dynamo. I'm sure in time they will be improved, but for now I've managed to work around them.

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by TheEnlightenedFlorist

Unfortunately, I've found that triggers aren't always reliable. At least in the two instances I was using them for in Operation Dynamo. I'm sure in time they will be improved, but for now I've managed to work around them.

If you mean triggers on blue Passthrough working on red Passthrough try removing something like
Army 1 = red
Army 2 = blue
in the beginning if the mission file.

Otherwise I can agree that triggers are not reliable as it is hard to make sure an event happens. Therefore they can be used only as a supplementary tool not as the core of mission logics.

[TheEnlightenedFlorist]

Originally Posted by Ataros

If you mean triggers on blue Passthrough working on red Passthrough try removing something like
Army 1 = red
Army 2 = blue
in the beginning if the mission file.

I was trying to use a trigger when all of the ground units in a circle were destroyed. In that case, it would fire after just a few were destroyed. Maybe I wasn't understanding the purpose of the trigger.

I also wanted a trigger that would fire when a train was destroyed, but I could never get it to fire.

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by TheEnlightenedFlorist

I was trying to use a trigger when all of the ground units in a circle were destroyed. In that case, it would fire after just a few were destroyed. Maybe I wasn't understanding the purpose of the trigger.

I also wanted a trigger that would fire when a train was destroyed, but I could never get it to fire.

I did not try those myself. The 1st one works in this mission http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...&postcount=133
Maybe just increase radius of the trigger to include more units.

Some notes about triggers http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...5&postcount=17