Investigation into multi Spawn of same chief naming???

[hc_wolf]

You Wizzards of Code! Ok will put this together and test. let you know in a little while

[Smokeynz]

Isnt he sneaky

[wildwillie]

When you spawn a Group via action its the same as you load a submission. The 1: is the number of this submission (you can get the next Missionnumber with GamePlay.gpNextMissionNumber())

From my testing, the 1: occurs when there are duplicate Objects created with the same name. If you spawn in your plane name will be something like:

0:BoB_LW_StG77_Stab.000

after you land/crash/etc and create a new plane this one will be named:

1:BoB_LW_StG77_Stab.000
then next time
2:BoB_LW_StG77_Stab.000
etc.


This also occurs with AI planes created using sub missions.

WildWillie

[Smokeynz]

I thought about this a bit more, I think you can solve this by creating a separate void

The trick is keep the 2 triggers separate, but instead of calling the action or text from the trigger call a void
You need a bool or interger count in the trigger to act as a reference that the condition has been met then call the void

within the void have conditional if statement or switch, in the case of each bool or interger count being this state or value then call the result if it hasnt had both triggers call yet nothing happens, or you could call a text message "half the column destroyed" .

the following might work, it is something I use for other things, but no real reason this wont work here for this.
code itself may require tweaking a little, but you get the idea

private int column;

public override void OnTrigger(int missionNumber, string shortName, bool active)
    {
        base.OnTrigger(missionNumber, shortName, active);

if ("Target1".Equals(shortName) && active)       
{
column = column + 1;   
callcolumn();
GamePlay.gpGetTrigger(shortName).Enable = false;
}

if ("Target1_1".Equals(shortName) && active)       
{
column = column + 1;  
callcolumn();
GamePlay.gpGetTrigger(shortName).Enable = false;
}

}

private void callcolumn()
{

switch (column)
{
case 1
GamePlay.gpHUDLogCenter(" Half the Column destroyed!!!");

break;
case 2
column = 0;
GamePlay.gpHUDLogCenter("Column destroyed!!!");

break;
}

}

updated with minor corrections

[hc_wolf]

Hey Smokeynz,

I got the full script working based on Kodiak's script above with a little tweaking, but was only working if the chiefs spawned from the beginning of the battle. If the Chiefs were flagged to 'spawn on sctipt' the triggers would not activate.

So I have it all working great with the "bool Target1_1triggered = false;" script above.

Kodiak came back to me with a possible fix to make the triggers activate if chiefs 'Spawn from script'. I gave it a quick go this morning before work but did not activate triggers, will test properly tonight.

I will also give yours a shot as it is a different approach and would be interesting to see if "on the whole" it is a neater script or not. Will keep you both informed and send you the test mission tonight if I am stuck.

[Smokeynz]

yes both work, the difference notwithstanding a little more complex with a void and switch, is it catches the half completed case for your outcome, and also you could add more triggers, like switch(column) for cases of 3, 4, 5, 6 and so on then do different things at different levels.

In this way you can also have other trigger results interact with main counter.
Case selection can be more useful when you want it more flexible for different outcomes.

A bool is true or false, so you really have only 2 states or maybe an elseif as a third. bool true and falses can end up in sequential if statements and you can trap yourself

[hc_wolf]

Awesome I understand, I am keen to put your code together and see how it works. Will try tonight thanks Smokeynz