Trigger activation

[greg147]

Hi all,

I've got a annoying problem with triggers activating triggers. I tried seaching and searching, but, 'no results found'. Again.  
I know its been mentioned somewhere, but I can't find anything here, so sorry for bringing it up.

Anyway, heres what I have:

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Trigger 1:
Name trig1
Condition: this
Activation: guy1 setbehaviour "SAFE"; trig1=true

Trigger 2:
Name trig2
Condition: this
Activation: guy2 setbehaviour "SAFE"; trig2=true

Trigger 3:
Name trig3
Condition: this
Activation: guy3 setbehaviour "SAFE"; trig3=true
And it goes on like that up to trigger 6

I wanted another trigger to activate when they've all activated, so I have in it:

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Trigger 7:
Name trig7
Condition: trig1 AND trig2 AND trig3 etc...
Activation: a1 sidechat "blah"
But I get a boolian error

I've also tried:

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Trigger 7:
Name trig7
Condition: trig1 && trig2 && trig3 etc...
Activation:
and

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Trigger 7:
Name trig7
Condition: trig1=true && trig2=true && tig3=true && etc...
Activation:
Anyone know how to get this to work?

Thanks  

[Artak]

Your method and syntax in the six first triggers is correct, and the two first ways of trigger #7 are correct. The last example of trigger #7 however, is incorrect, but I guess you sort of knew that already and just tried it when everything else failed.

So, to sum it up, I have no idea what the problem is. Are you sure all of the triggers are activating? Try adding a hint to each trigger hint "trig1 activated. go activate the next one"

Also, could you post the error message here. It might say a lot.

[Chris Death]

I have an idea what's wrong

Compare the names of your triggers to the booleans you are
using. Then you will see that you use each name as a boolean
and as an object name.

Solution; simply remove the triggernames - you don't need a
trigger named, unless you want setpos the trigger later or
you want to refer to it's trigger-list.

~S~ CD

[greg147]

I've made sure the triggers are activating, and their activating fine.

The error is one of the ones in the top left corner when gameplay starts. It says:

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trig1 AND trig2 AND|#| trig3: Error and: Type Object, expected Bool

[Artak]

Doh! Obviously. Chris is right, and that's exactly what the error message is referring to - the trigX variable's aren't boolean, but indeed they are the trigger objects.

Way to go eagle-eye Chris.  

[greg147]

Thanks for the help so far  

So how would I fix it?
All the triggers have the same sort of thing in them.
guy1 setunitpos "DOWN"
doStop guy1
guy1 dotarget tank1

Would I have to remove these commands?

@Chris Death
I don't understand. If I remove the trigger names, how will the 7th trigger know which ones been activated?  :-\

[Chris Death]

I don't understand. If I remove the trigger names, how will the 7th trigger know which ones been activated

Because you say: trig1 = true
and the 7th trigger is waiting for trig1.

Once trig1 = true, the 7th trigger isn't waiting for this anymore.

A trigger is an object, if you give a trigger a name like trig1
then trig1 is an object name. An object cannot be true or false,
it can be an object.

Now if you say trig1 = true, then nothing happens, because: read the lines above.

Furthermore the condition trig1 AND trig2 AND blablabla
will check if trig1 is true, but it realizes that trig1 is already the
name of the trigger (= object) and thus it says:

error type object, expected bool

And; no you don't need to remove any commands from your triggers, nor do you need to remove the triggers - just delete
the text, which you wrote into the trigger's name field.

~S~ CD

[greg147]

Ah, that makes more sense

Deleted the names, now it works  ;D

Thanks guys for the help  :thumbsup: