How to make a driver stop when i get out of a car?

[LovE-RicH 0]

How to do: I made a guy wait for me in his car, and when I get in, he starts driving (CONDITION: "player in vehicle").

But I'd like him to stop whenever I get out (eject) from the car, and wait until I get back in again. I tryed making my 1st script, but later I found out that the command "STOP" won't stop a unit following its waypoints. Anyway, here it is:

(in a trigger's "ON ACTIVATION" field I wrote "[player, driver, car] exec "script.sqs"")

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_player = _this select 0

_driver = _this select 1

_car = _this select 2

#start

?!(_player in _car) : goto "stop"

~3

goto "start"

#stop

_driver stop true

goto "backin"

#backin

?(_player in _car) : goto "continue"

~3

goto "backin"

#continue

_driver stop false

goto "start"

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Since it's wrong... I'm asking you beautiful people to help me.

Thanks!!!  

[Chris Death 0]

Create a trigger, type: none/repeatedly

Into it's condition field: player in name_of_car

onactivation: name_of_car setfuel 1

ondeactivation: name_of_car setfuel 0

Only prob here might be, how to get off the car, while

driving

But basically this is the answer to your question.

~S~ CD

[LovE-RicH 0]

Gee, thanks man! Now I remembered another thing:

Can a trigger be set so it activets while I'm in the car? For example, I want text to appear while the driver's taking me somewhere - I want a trigger to activate while we're driving through it, not only when I'm outside the car...

Thanks!

[Chris Death 0]

Activation: anybody/present

condition: this AND name_of_car in thislist

activation: blablabla

~S~ CD

[LovE-RicH 0]

Thanks again! You're my life-saviour!

[LovE-RicH 0]

Another question:

I want that a trigger can be triggered ONLY AFTER ANOTHER TRIGGER HAS BEEN TRIGGERED (don't twist your tongue). How do I do that? Something with the condition field...?

[Chris Death 0]

Into the first trigger's onActivation field type:

a=true

Into the condition field of the second trigger type:

a

:note - "a" is just any variable name, of my choice

: you can use any name here, except already used names

somewhere else in your mission, or reserved names (like

weapon, time, etc.)

~S~ CD

[LovE-RicH 0]

Wow, I love quick answers! How do you do that? It's my first day here, on this forum, and I'm already the happiest OFP player in the world!

[L4leather 0]

Quicker to use sync from one trig to the other , not tried it but would that work, and no scripting?

L4leather

[4C3 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (L4leather @ Sep. 21 2002,05:25)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quicker to use sync from one trig to the other , not tried it but would that work, and no scripting?

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I think all this scripting is a pain, and its so much easier to just edit the maps and there missions in game  useing advanced functions and such... but anyways to do a transport make a Player  or group of players, or just AI for that matter, make the car "move" first and have the "move' synced with "get in", so when you get in the car will proceed to move to the next waypoint... same goes for getting out and haveing the car stop,  sync "get out" with the final "move" and then do the rest of the waypoints for the car and for the player or AI... simple as that.  Another thing, is you can have the AI thats driveing the CAr have a waypoint "transport unload"  and it will automatically kick you out of the car...  and give you time to move before the car moves to its next waypoint!  

P.S. Make sure you have the waypoints very close to the car, or truck... or anything that drives IE. Have the "move" right in front of the car by zooming really close to the editors map... and have it very close same with the "get in" and "get out"!

[Chris Death 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quicker to use sync from one trig to the other , not tried it but would that work, and no scripting?

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Syncronising two triggers doesn't work.

You can syncronise a trigger with a waypoint, but not with

another trigger.

to 4C3;

Not one of my suggestions here was related to use any external script. All could have been done by using the

INGAME EDITOR and it's wonderful features. All hints i gave

here, were really very basics in mission editing. All these

problems couldn't have been solved in an easier way than

suggested.

~S~ CD