How to stop a trigger effect from playing when something is destroyed

[tangowrangler 10]

I already have a trigger setup to play an effect when there is presence within the trigger area (i.e. Muslim prayer). I would like to have a loudspeaker object placed on the map essentially playing the music. A task would be created for the teams to destroy the loudspeaker which would deactivate the trigger playing the effect.

If the object is not functional then I could do replace the loudspeaker with a building.

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

[CarlGustaffa 4]

You could add another trigger that kicks in when the loudspeaker is destroyed, which in turn moves the sound trigger away to i.e. [0,0], then deletes the trigger.

Cond: !alive uMySpeaker

On act: 0 = [] spawn {tMySoundTrigger setPos [0,0]; sleep 0.1; deleteVehicle tMySoundTrigger;};

Not sure atm if you need to setPos it. It might continue a little while as well.

[st_dux 26]

There is an easier way.

Simply make the trigger repeatable and add "&& alive <loudSpeaker>" to the condition field of the trigger after "this" (replacing <loudSpeaker> with the name of your loud speaker object).

[Tonmeister 14]

One thought - once the trigger is deactivated.. will the sound (which I assume is a user defined file of any particular lenght) stop immediately on destruction of the object? My initial thought is no. Maybe this just doesn't require a solution anyway.

[tangowrangler 10]

The sound file will be the default muslimprayer1 which is a trigger effect. I was sort of concerned that loop would have to be completed before it was stopped (well someone else told me that).

I will try the options listed here and see what I come up with. Thanks for the input so far.

---------- Post added at 07:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:44 PM ----------

I just tested the ST Dux's method on the one trigger that is playing the effect and I put this in the field:

Condition: this && (alive speaker1);

***I had to add ( ) around the statement to have it work***

I was able to place one satchel on the loudspeaker and once the satchel exploded the puslim prayer stopped.

Thanks it was easy and effective.

---------- Post added at 07:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:56 PM ----------

One thought - once the trigger is deactivated.. will the sound (which I assume is a user defined file of any particular lenght) stop immediately on destruction of the object? My initial thought is no. Maybe this just doesn't require a solution anyway.

The sound would continue playing as the trigger was not checking for the object's alive status.

[CarlGustaffa 4]

Remember, this reflects what is activated by the triggers dropdown (activated by west, radio alpha etc). Unless you have a purpose with this, you might be better off with just alive speaker1.

The reason I moved the trigger was to simulate immediate shut off of the sound, so you wouldn't have to listen through the whole loop. But when I actually tested, it didn't seem to move it properly. Might have to go with a dummyobject and trigger attachTo that object, and move that, dunno. CfgSFX (trigger) based sounds haven't been nice to me over the years.