Revealing hidden marker

[Major Fubar 0]

OK, I'm having some trouble with a mission I'm working on.

I've read most of the tutorials on the subject, but I'm still doing something wrong.

I have a hidden marker that should be revealed once the players have completed a certain number of objectives. In the trigger for each objective I have "Goals=Goals+1". I then have a seperate trigger which has the condition "Goals>=3" to reveal the marker (in the init.sqs I have declared "marker1" SetMarkerType "Empty", and in the trigger "marker1" SetMarkerType "Pickup").

Why isn't this working? Do I need to declare Goals=0 in the init.sqs? I thought all variables defaulted to 0 when first called.

On a related note, is there any way to use a group score as a trigger to reveal the marker? How do I detect what the group score is - do I need to create a variable and then add every players individual score to it?

TIA - Fubar

[Major Fubar 0]

Ahh, declaring Goals=0 in the init.sqs did the trick

Still, I'd still like to know about detecting the score if possible

[thobson 38]

Quote[/b] ]I thought all variables defaulted to 0 when first called.

Well as you have just found - no they don't.  Neither do the default to false either. Each variable should be explicitly created before it is used.

Quote[/b] ]I'd still like to know about detecting the score if possible  

Have you checked out the commands: score and rating?

http://www.ofpec.com/editors/comref.php?letter=S#score

http://www.ofpec.com/editors/comref.php?letter=R#rating

Maybe you could get them towork the way you want.