I've just started making sp maps and need a little help with the objectives.
I was wondering how to make it so if all of your allies die then you fail.
Also I want it to sort of count those that have been killed, e.g.
0/4 Allies died (on screen)

can anyone help me?

For the first part, you are going to have to to have a checker that checks for the amount of allies alive. Here is a quick example.

main()
{
	// What I am going to do here is:
	// 1. Setup our objective
	// 2. watch for dead AI and end the mission if they die!

	wait 5; // Wait a few seconds until everything is setup.

	thread setMyObjective();
	thread watchFailmission();
}

setMyObjective()
{
	// What I am going to do here is:
	// 1. Setup my objective and alliesCount
	// 2. Start checking for dead allies

	level.alliesCount = getAiArray("allies").size; // Get the count of Allies currently alive.

	Objective_Add(0, "active", "Protect the Allies! ["+level.alliesCount+" alive]"); // Make the new objective and add text. "Protect the Allies! [5 alive]"
}

watchAi()
{
	// What I am going to do here is:
	// 1. Loop every half second to check for alive AI
	// 2. If AI are all dead, notify allies_killed.

	level endon("allies_killed");

	while(1)
	{
		count = getAiArray("allies").size;

		// If count less than or equal to 0, they are all dead!
		if(count <= 0)
		{
			level notify("allies_killed");
			break;
		}

		// Now, if we have a different count than before, we want to update the objective text and the alliesCount
		if(count != level.alliesCount)
		{
			level.alliesCount = count;
			objective_string(0, "Protect the Allies! ["+level.alliesCount+" alive]"); // As this gets called, the number will either increase (if more spawn) or decrease (if they die).
		}

		wait 0.5; // Wait a half second between each loop.
	}
}

watchFailmission()
{
	// What I am going to do here is:
	// 1. Wait until allies_killed is triggered.
	// 2. Fail the mission if all allies died.

	level waittill("allies_killed");
	MissionFailed();
}

Thanks a lot m8 this really helps

i must say that is a good way of doing it but heres another way too. instead of checking every half second to see if he's dead just have a simple thread on your allie or allies like in the last part that playername has. it would seem much better and ur not checking so often. it would look something like this

my_partner();
{
    getent( "guy", 'targetname" ) thread mission_fail_upon_death();// this is your entity running on a thread 
}

mission_fail_upon_death()
{

    self waittill("death" );
    setdvar("ui_deadquote",&"Mapname_localizedstring");
    maps\_utility::missionFailedWrapper();
}

now if its more than one guy i would suggest that you give all your partners the same key value. the script would slightly change. Also if you want those threads to end after a certain time or event in your script ( because mostlikely you dont want it to be running during your entire mission) you can put an endon function. Im not sure if you are familiar with it, but its a string( kinda like a message ) that you would tell a thread to terminate its own function if this string is ever called.
Example you want a pie and you call a thread to "eat_pie" but you put a endon function of "pie_is_too_hot" then whenever you call "pie_is_too_hot" then we terminate the thread of "eat_pie". it wouldnt affect the rest of the script just that thread. anywho the new function would look like this:

my_partner();
{
   guys =  getentarray( "guy", 'targetname" );
   for( i = 0; i < guys.size; i++ )
              guys[i] thread mission_fail_upon_death();
}

mission_fail_upon_death()
{
    level endon( "mission_complete" );//whenever you call "mission_complete" on any part of your script this thread will be terminated and will no longer be usefull. 
    self waittill("death" );
    setdvar("ui_deadquote",&"Mapname_localizedstring");
    maps\_utility::missionFailedWrapper();
}

remember that "mapname_localizedstring" is a localized string.
i hope this works out for you. Also im not saying playersname script is wrong. Im just providing an alternative that is all.

I tried what you said and got a syntax error my tests.gsc is:

main()
{
 maps\_load::main();
 
 level.weaponClipModels = [];
 level.weaponClipModels[0] = "weapon_m16_clip";
 level.weaponClipModels[1] = "weapon_ak47_clip";
 level.weaponClipModels[3] = "weapon_mp5_clip";

 level.player takeallweapons();
 level.player giveWeapon ("m16_basic");
 level.player giveWeapon ("fraggrenade");
 level.player giveWeapon ("flash_grenade");
 
 wait 5;
 
 thread obj1();
 
 thread my_partner();
 
 thread mission_fail_upon_death();

}

my_partner();
{
   guys =  getentarray( "guy", 'targetname" );
   for( i = 0; i < guys.size; i++ )
              guys[i] thread mission_fail_upon_death();
}

mission_fail_upon_death()
{
    level endon( "mission_complete" );//whenever you call "mission_complete" on any part of your script this thread will be terminated and will no longer be usefull. 
    self waittill("death" );
    setdvar("ui_deadquote",&"tests_localizedstring");
    maps\_utility::missionFailedWrapper();
}

obj1()
{

obj1 = getent("obj1", "targetname");

objective_add(1, "active", &"tests_OBJ1",getent("obj1","targetname").origin);

objective_current(1);

obj1 waittill("trigger");

objective_state(1, "done");

obj1 delete();

wait(1);

iprintlnbold (&"tests_OBJ_COMPLETED"); //tells player obj finished

missionSuccess ("fun",false); //the mission ends
}

The error is:

Error:
******* script compile error *******
Error: bad syntax: (file 'maps/tests.gsc', line 25)
my_partner();
*
************************************
Loaded zone 'tests'
dvar set cl_paused 0
dvar set loc_language 0
dvar set loc_forceEnglish 0
dvar set com_errorTitle Error
dvar set com_errorMessage script compile error
bad syntax
my_partner();
(see console for details)

********************
ERROR: script compile error
bad syntax
my_partner();
(see console for details)

********************

Can anyone help?

edited on Feb. 26, 2010 02:45 pm by BlindSniper

make sure ur allies have a targetname of guy

You need to remove the semicolon after my_partner() here:

my_partner(); <-------------
{
   guys =  getentarray( "guy", 'targetname" );
   for( i = 0; i < guys.size; i++ )
              guys[i] thread mission_fail_upon_death();
}

Thats fixed it Marty22

Marty22 writes...
nice eyes u got there i didnt even notice tht :P