Trigger Activation Each Time?

[Gil Galvanti 0]

Hey,

Is it possible to have a trigger activated each time the condition is satisfied, even if it has already been satisfied? For example, say the trigger is tripped by the presence of civilians. If one civilian walks into it and trips it, is there a way to set it to be activated again by any subsequent civilians walking into it, while the others that originally activated it remain in the trigger area?

[BittleRyan 10]

Yes,

Click one of the options that says Continues activations... Or whatever it says... I don't know it off the top of my head.

[Koni 3]

Activation ===== Once - Repeatedly in the trigger screen.

[Joshii 10]

Quote from the wiki

If an activation is set to "repeatedly" the trigger first has to be 'deactivated' before it can fire again (e.g. if a unit activated the trigger by entering it, it will first have to leave it, before the trigger can become active again.)

So I doubt that this will work.. If you however tell us what your up to then we could probably find a solution for it.

[f2k sel 164]

You can deactivate a trigger with use of a variable.

create a variable in an object or game logic init datrig=true

set your trigger to repeat

in the condition of the trigger it would be datrig or this and datrig

in the on act put datrig = false

on dea put datrig = true

A trigger only repeats every 0.5 secs so if you need to check anything faster than that then you need to use scripting.

There is another way of doing a true repeating trigger but I always forget how to do it, I think it has something to do with a time check.

Edited June 29, 2010 by F2k Sel

[Big Dawg KS 6]

So I doubt that this will work.. If you however tell us what your up to then we could probably find a solution for it.

Depending on his condition it will work just fine. It's only for conditions that won't deactivate that it won't work for.

[Joshii 10]

I stand corrected

[Gil Galvanti 0]

No, I have it set to repeated. It only reactivates after it is deactivated. I'll have to play around with deactivating it with a trigger, but not sure that would work either.

What I'm trying to do specifically is detect when someone is "trespassing" on someone else's property. It only works when the owner of the property is home though, so since the trigger is set to activate in the presence of a civilian, it automatically trips to start with since he is a civ, even though it's his own property. But in my scripts, I have ignoring the trigger if the owner is the only one in the trigger list. But then if a civ runs onto the property, it isn't detected because the trigger isn't reactivated since it's already activated by the owner himself being home.

Edited June 29, 2010 by Gil Galvanti

[Big Dawg KS 6]

Try using this condition:

{_X != owner} count thislist > 0

Where owner is the civ who owns that property. This will be active while there is someone other than the owner in the trigger area, and will deactivate when nobody or just the owner is present. If you want it to repetedly activate regardless if the first guy leaves or not:

First set: intruders = 0

Condition:

{_X != owner} count thislist != intruders

On Act:

intruders = {_X != owner} count thislist

This will fire every time an intruder enters AND exits the area. If you ad an if statement before you reassign intruders, you can check whether someone entered or if someone left:

On Act:

if({_X != owner} count thislist > intruders)then{hint "New intruder!"}; intruders = {_X != owner} count thislist

[Gil Galvanti 0]

Try using this condition:

{_X != owner} count thislist > 0

Where owner is the civ who owns that property. This will be active while there is someone other than the owner in the trigger area, and will deactivate when nobody or just the owner is present. If you want it to repetedly activate regardless if the first guy leaves or not:

First set: intruders = 0

Condition:

{_X != owner} count thislist != intruders

On Act:

intruders = {_X != owner} count thislist

This will fire every time an intruder enters AND exits the area. If you ad an if statement before you reassign intruders, you can check whether someone entered or if someone left:

On Act:

if({_X != owner} count thislist > intruders)then{hint "New intruder!"}; intruders = {_X != owner} count thislist

Ok, I'll try that out, thanks :). I'm confused though, what is _X? It's never defined...is it like thisList where it's an automatically set variable?

EDIT: Hmmm...not working, maybe because I'm not understanding what _X is?

Edited June 29, 2010 by Gil Galvanti

[f2k sel 164]

did you name the civ owner and set the variable intruders = 0 in an init.

[Gil Galvanti 0]

I changed owner to the unit name, and I was trying the first one that didn't use intruders. Any idea what _X is though? Does it need to be defined?

---------- Post added at 12:04 AM ---------- Previous post was Yesterday at 11:30 PM ----------

Ah, got it working, turns out I was already defining the trigger statements in a script which was overwriting what I was putting in the editor :). I'd still like to know what "_X" variable holds though.

[f2k sel 164]

Well I suck at explaining stuff but it kind of extracts all the variables from a list or group.

It gets an element of an array

It doesn't need defining.

if you had say 5 units in a trigger

then in the on act you can do things like this.

{_x setdamage 1} foreach thislist

That would kill all the units it finds when the conditions are meet _x would be the unit.

Edited June 30, 2010 by F2k Sel