Assistance requested: Looping triggers, with intervals, and how to stop them?

[james mckenzie-smith 1]

Greetings,

I would like to make a radio trigger that causes a unit to do an action looping until stopped by a second radio trigger, with a 2 second delay between actions.

In this case, the desired effect is:

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Radio Alpha activated

soldierOne action ["salute", soldierOne]

// 2 seconds of no saluting

soldierOne action ["salute", soldierOne]

// 2 seconds of no saluting

soldierOne action ["salute", soldierOne]

// 2 seconds of no saluting

etc.

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The whole loop would then be stopped by Radio Bravo. I have no idea how do this, to be honest, and I have searched (and learned lots of good stuff on the side!).

Could someone help this neophyte scripter? I'm being driven mental here...

[demonized 20]

what you are looking for is global variables.

Asuming you got the anim loop.

My_variable = true;

when the above is set to true, f ex in your radio bravo trigger script, if you have a condition in the alpha radio trigger script that waits or checks for this to be true, it will respond.

Global_variable = true; // this one can be acessed by any scripts.

_Local_variable = true; // this one is only present inside its own script.

Note the _ in front of the local.

Why you would like your AI to salute then pause 2 seconds and repeat is beyond me, i asume it was just an example or you have a specific need, nontheless, you should look into while loops

// salute

run the animation in this line;

waituntil {(animationstate _unit) == "same_as_animation"};

_unit disableAI "ANIM";

waituntil {Global_variable}; // wait until radio bravo trigger global variable is true.

_unit enableAi "ANIM"; // will cause AI to finish animation.

Edit: i forgot to include the _unit in the animationstate check, but if you read the link on animationstate you would have seen that.

Anyway its corrected now.

Edited February 13, 2011 by Demonized
forgot to add in the _unit in animationstate

[james mckenzie-smith 1]

Thank you for your assistance!