titles & detect destroyed building

[thegunnysgt 1]

Hello, two things..

I've never wanted or needed to use titles until now, I'm having some dificulity with the timing of them. The wiki never clearly states the appropriate numbers that the timing of the titles can have, is it in seconds, are there set numbers that have to be used such as from 0 to 1. I've tinkered with the timing, but every time I change it to something it changed alot and I can't get the timing I would like. I have a title that I would like to last atleast 3 or 4 seconds, then fade out for about the same amount of seconds.

The second is, how can I detect when a specific building on the map has been destroyed, it is an objective that must be completed.

Thanks!

[kylania 567]

1:

titleText ["This is written in white letters in the middle of your screen, fading in over the course of 3 seconds and fading away in 10 seconds or so","PLAIN", 3];

titleText ["This is written in white letters at the bottom of your screenfading away in 4 seconds because of the titleFadeOut command.","PLAIN DOWN"]; titleFadeOut 4;

titleText ["This will turn your screen black and display this text slowly fading away after 8 seconds.","BLACK IN",8];

titleText ["This will fade your screen to black while displaying this text and never come back, usually.  Adding the titleFadeOut will make it fade back in, kind of, 20 seconds or so.  It's wierd.","BLACK OUT",8];titleFadeOut 4;

2:

Put down a GameLogic named glBuilding on the map.

Click the IDs button on the editor sidebar and zoom in till you see the small number over the building you want destroyed. Use that number in the next step.

Setup a trigger with the condition:

!alive (getPos glBuilding nearestObject 85868)

Where 85868 is the number you found when zooming in on the map.

Edited August 3, 2010 by kylania

[f2k sel 164]

You can also just place a trigger over the building and then group the trigger to the building.You then get a new option in the trigger "Static Object" just set the trigger to not present.

[kylania 567]

You can also just place a trigger over the building and then group the trigger to the building.You then get a new option in the trigger "Static Object" just set the trigger to not present.

I always forget that! You do need the trigger to encompass the building though, so make sure the area of the trigger includes the building. Great tip!