How to make unit wait until timeout OR another unit hits checkpoint

[colonelmolerat 1]

I have a mission in which a convoy is waiting until timeout 15 minutes to move.

However, I want it to move earlier IF a unit somewhere else on the map reaches a waypoint.

How can I do this?

(If anybody wants to see the map, and my attempts so far, it's here:

http://speedy.sh/nDkQB/mission.sqm

)

[mikie boy 18]

basic concept...

you c an use the waituntil command

you will have to have the server run a timer script with the outcome being a global/public variable (depending on mp setup) - e.g TimerDone = 1;

Then when the other waypoint is hi - have WaypoinReached = 1;

the waituntil can be something like this

waituntil {(TimerDone ==1) || (WaypointReached ==2)};

[cobra4v320 27]

Create a trigger and place it over the building the guy is retreating to. Group the trigger to guy retreating. Under the type column, make the trigger a switch then sync the trigger to the waypoint of the vehicles.

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Try this out. http://rapidshare.com/files/3812653426/Stratis%20Takeover.zip

Not sure of why you had so many waypoints for the vehicles, just set them to safe or careless and they will follow the road. I also made it so your helicopter flight was more random. You will need to change the timing in the trigger near the trucks.

[colonelmolerat 1]

Cool, thanks for your help you two!

I've finally found another way to do it, too.

Have the waypoint the unit has to reach have the text "radio = true" in the On Act. field. (Any text can replace 'radio')

Then, have the waypoint where the convoy is waiting have a timeout counter and a trigger synced to it, with 'radio' in the condition field.

That way, when the unit reaches the waypoint, 'radio' becomes true; when the condition 'radio' becomes true, the switch trigger switches the convoy's path to the next waypoint in sequence.

So many ways to skin a cat!

Edit:

Bloody Hell, Cobra, that's MUCH neater!!!

Edit again:

I had considered making a trigger that detected Opfor presence in the building the person was running to, but felt there must be another way that I wanted to work out. Found it in the end. I've made those changes you did to the waypoints on my map, too - much nicer now and the vehicles get there faster.

Edited April 2, 2013 by ColonelMolerat

[cobra4v320 27]

There is always an easier way.

[Jezuro 452]

Just so the info is complete, you can also use Logic units (Side > Game Logic > Game Logic). They have special waypoints: AND, OR. You can use the Synchronize tool with these for simple situations like this.

[cobra4v320 27]

See I told you there was always an easier way :p