Hi. I'm looking for a way to detect which trigger was hit preferably without using the "waittill" command.

Is there a way to use an if statement when using triggers, for example...

if(trigger = damage)?

Thanks for any help/suggestions

Drofder

Something along the lines of

trigg = getentarray("whatevertargetname","targetname");
for (j=0;j > trigg.size, j++)
{
if (trigg.classname == trigger_damage)
{
//this is a damage trigger.
}
}
might work. This is just from the top of my head though, I didn;t check the names etc. I'm at work.

However.. you will still have to use the waittil command.. because you will have to tell the engine not to do anything (wait) until (till) the trigger is hit.

I was wondering why you didn't want to use the waittill arguement?

Yorkshire-Rifles writes...

I dont want to use it, because I want to detect damage to more than 1 trigger. You can only apply a waittill to a single trigger at a time.

The_Caretaker writes...

This finds the triggers but it doesnt detect if the trigger takes damage or not. Although I may be able to use this in another way.

No.. the only way for that is the waittill command, for as far as I know.

The_Caretaker writes...
Damn, thought that would be the case. I will just have to write multiple threads. Thanks anyways :)

try to do this whit functions. one function for one trigger.

There's two utility functions:

waittill_multiple (string1, string2, string3, string4, string5)
Causes an entity to wait for multiple notifies to occur before progressing.

waittill_any (string1, string2, string3, string4, string5)
Causes an entity to wait for any of a collection of strings to be notified.

Is that what you're looking for?

edited on Mar. 27, 2006 01:03 pm by [FR]Sparks

Ok, ive nearly got this working exactly how I want it.

All I need to know is how to stop a thread running.

For example...

I have 4 threads that run on a single player.
Each trigger waits until it is triggered/damaged
3 of the triggers are dummy triggers and 1 is the real trigger.
If a dummy trigger is triggered, then nothing happens, the script keeps waitting.
Once the correct trigger is hit, then the starting thread is run again. (Basically, I end up with the same threads running on 1 person mulptiple times).

I'm sure the answer lies somewhere in the

"self endon ("finish");"

But can anyone explain how to use that (or the correct way of ending a thread).

In the mean time, I will search through the gametype scripts for the answer :)

Thanks.