I need a little help . Here's my idea. I have 2 triggers. I want to make this: if the 2nd trigger is activated , when the player activates the first , message 1 appears. If the player hadnt activated the 2nd trigger then message 2 appears. Any ideas how to make this?

in your main():

level.second_activated = false;

thread firsttrigger();
thread secondtrigger();

then:

firsttrigger()
{
     trig = getent("firsttriggername", "targetname");

     trig waittill("trigger", player);

     if (level.second_activated)
     {
          player iprinlnbold("whatever");
     }
     else
     {
          player iprintlnbold("whatever");
     }
}

secontrigger()
{
     trig = getent("secondtriggername", "targetname");

     trig waittill("trigger");
     
     level.second_activated = true;
}

That's just a basic script, but should be enough to let you know how to code it the way you need it to be coded.

THANKS a lot !!!!

edit:
There was a small problem with the script because the player could activate trigger 1 only once. I fixed it by adding thread firsttrigger(); So the code will look like this

firsttrigger()
{
     trig = getent("door1_trigger","targetname");
     door1 = getent("door1","targetname");

     trig waittill("trigger", player);

     if (level.second_activated)
     {
          player iprintlnbold("whatever");
          thread firsttrigger();
     }
     else
     {
          player iprintlnbold("whatever2");
          thread firsttrigger();
     }
}

Ahh. I see. I was just coding it as a one shot thing, just to give you an idea. I was tempted to do it the other way, but I wasn't sure if that was what you wanted.

This might work better for you.

firsttrigger()
{
     trig = getent("firsttriggername", "targetname");

     while (1)
     {
          trig waittill("trigger", player);
     
          if (level.second_activated)
          {
               player iprinlnbold("whatever");
               level.second_activated = false;
          }
          else
          {
               player iprintlnbold("whatever");
          }
     }
}

secondtrigger()
{
     trig = getent("secondtriggername", "targetname");

     while(1)
     {
          trig waittill("trigger");
     
          level.second_activated = true;
     }
}

Monkeys way is the correct way to do this. It doesn't recall the firsttrigger() function every time the 1st trigger is pressed. Calling functions takes memory.
Not that your version won't work, newbie11, Monkeys way is just a bit more correct :p

@monkey , that's nice too but i dont need to respawn the trigger because it is trigger damage and when u shoot it an object gets destroyed and it wont be realistic to respawn. I needed to add thread firsttrigger(); because if the player activated trigger 1 and got msg1 and then activated trigger 2 he wouldnt be able to activate trigger 1 again to see the 2nd message. I understand what you thought, it is my mistake that I didnt explain better in my first post. Thanks again :)

caretaker , in my case I dont want to respawn the trigger and if trigger 2 is activated once it cant be deactivated anymore in my way.

edited on Sep. 18, 2007 04:01 pm by newbie11