How to make a trigger work at a certen hight?

[R.I.P-omega-]

Hi im makeing a mission and there is a point in the mission where the player needs to get on a scaffold and shoot from there, is there a way to make a trigger wrok from a certen hight?

for a instance if ill be under the trriger nothing will happen or if ill be on top of a triiger nothing will happen ethir only if im at the same hight of the trriger....

PS- mind my english  

[Planck]

AFAIK triggers are not height specific, in other words they work whatever your height, as long as the subject enters the area covered by the trigger.

Edit:  Ummmmm......think I might have misunderstood the question..........never mind  ;D


Planck

[bored_onion]

if its only for the player then put this in the condition field of the trigger (which is activated by player present):

Code: [Select]

this AND (getpos player select 2)==8
this should do it. it assumes that the player is called "player" and that the height you are after is about 8 (you can change this with testing). syntax not guaranteed.

[macguba]

Don't use ==.     Use <= or >=, possibly in combination depending on exactly what you want.

[bored_onion]

good point. otherwise you have to be at exactly 8. make it variable between 7 and 9 rather than a flat 8.

so:

Code: [Select]

this AND (getpos player select 2)<= 9 AND (getpos player select 2)>= 7
i think

[R.I.P-omega-]

WoW guys you dont know how much you have helped me

BIIIIIG THX!

[THobson]

Addendum to:
http://www.ofpec.com/yabbse/index.php?board=6;action=display;threadid=25605

Take care with select 2 if the unit is in or over a building.  The distance then is measured from the unit down to the nearest usable floor.  So for example a unit on the top floor of a three floor building will have a getPos select 2 value of close to zero, just as it would if it was on the middle floor or the ground floor.

I will leave this open a little while before solving it in case there other comments.

[Kyle Sarnik]

Yea I was gonna suggest this but he hit the solve button before he actualy solved it... If a unit is on a building or scaffold, the z pos (getpos unit select 2) will register as 0, so you need to use a different method such as distance.

[R.I.P-omega-]

yea sorry for tha misstake i did i tryed it out and the trriger dosent work while im on the scaffold.

PS- shold i unsolve the topic or contunue posting on this one?


I merged this topic with the original topic and unsolved the original.......Planck

[THobson]

To do this I placed a game logic high over the building (1000 m) and had a trigger covering the building.  I grouped the trigger with the player and had inthe condition field:

this and (player distance gameLogicName < 999.9)

Play with the last number to get it to fire on the correct floor.

[R.I.P-omega-]

I grouped the trigger with the player

how do i do that?

[macguba]

Click on Groups F2 at the top of hte Mission Editor Screen.   Click and hold on the trigger, then drag and drop a thin light blue line on to the group leader.

[Triggerhappy]

be sure to check the activation conditions afterwards (the east/west present stuff) as they will change when grouped

[R.I.P-omega-]

To do this I placed a game logic high over the building (1000 m) and had a trigger covering the building.  I grouped the trigger with the player and had inthe condition field:

this and (player distance gameLogicName < 999.9)

Play with the last number to get it to fire on the correct floor.

didnt work..... i did exactly what you said and still it didnt work

[Pilot]

Did you set the height of the GameLogic?  To to this you will need to put the following code in the init field of the GameLogic:
this setpos [(getpos this select 0), (getpos this select 1), 1000]

-Student Pilot