"kill everyone who enter zone" trigger

[galzohar 31]

So I thought I had the simple solution, as it does seem to work most of the time:

Actication by <whoever I want to not enter>

Repeatedly

Present

onAct: {_x setDammage 1} forEach thislist;

The problem is that sometimes units seem to manage to get into the trigger area without getting killed. It seems to only happen when multiple units enter the trigger area quickly. My guess would be that if a unit walks in the trigger area while the "onAct" is still running, it will not activate the trigger and will not be in the trigger's list, though again this is only a guess and I don't really know what is causing it.

If anyone actually knows for sure what is causing this issue and can suggest a working fix I would much appreciate it.

Of course this issue isn't only related to "kill everyone" trigger but also to other things that rely on the list of units that are inside the trigger area.

[Bon 12]

Yeah, its very simple:

Someone walks into the trigger area and activates it, in other words, set its status to "active". While active there is no chance to activate it again, it must be deactivated before, i.e., no unit of given side is within the trigger area.

Now what I don't know actually, is, how long a dead unit remains in the triggerlist.

[galzohar 31]

It seems while the trigger is active any unit that walks into it will add into its list, but it will not re-activate, however in another mission when I use the list of units in a trigger I had issues with it sometimes not working (though the issue is not necessarily in the trigger but again this is a rather simple script picking a random unit from the list and setting a waypoint on its position).

Edited February 24, 2010 by galzohar

[xeno 234]

Instead of putting the damage code into the onAct field of the trigger put it into the Condition field:

call {if (count thislist > 0) then {{if (alive _x) then {_x setDamage 1}} forEach thislist};false}

This will check the trigger list two times a second and damage all units that are still alive.

The false ensures that the trigger condition will never be true, means it will never stop (no need for Repeatedly then).

Xeno

[xPaveway 10]

You could have a loop in a script that would check objects near the trigger using

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/nearestObject

If the nearest object was a man type object or something you could set it's damage to 1, or if you're needing to kill multiple people, you could have them all run scripts or something that checks the distance between them and the trigger (or marker) and kills them.

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/distance

[Monsada 10]

I like xeno's solution

[icebreakr 3159]

Xeno's works great. But its nice to warn players before they get killed off :)

[galzohar 31]

Yeah I did Xeno's solution, though giving a hint in that case might not work on certain occasions, and some more complex solution would be needed. But at least it always kills them.

[xeno 234]

Xeno's works great. But its nice to warn players before they get killed off :)

You can allways add a second (bigger) trigger and use a condition like this:

player in thislist

and display a hint in onAct.

Xeno

[galzohar 31]

Yeah, that's a nice solution, as that way only the invading player will get the hint.