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| 00:02.15 | supply | is there a way to detect when the player changes the selection as opposed to units being added to the selection via triggers? |
| 00:05.50 | supply | I have a trigger that spawns units and adds them to the selection and I'd like it to stop doing so when the player actually selects a unit themselves, but the "Unit Is Selected" event fires when the selection is changed with the "Select Unit Group" action. I've tried disabling the trigger that detects the selection change before I select the units in the other trigger, but it doesn't work for some reason (tried both "Turn Trigger |
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| 01:10.33 | ArcanePariah | supply: I would check for the selecting player. When done via triggers, I suspect it will see it as the units being selected by player 16 (the game itself) |
| 01:13.10 | supply | ArcanePariah: I am checking for the selected player. Event: "Any Unit is Selected by player 3" |
| 01:13.55 | supply | I've tried "Unit Is Highlighted" and "Unit Is Clicked" as well, by the way. they didn't work |
| 01:15.04 | ArcanePariah | So, let me make sure I understand. You have a trigger running off units being selected, and you only want it to happen when units are selected via triggers, not when the players select it, correct? |
| 01:17.33 | supply | no, the opposite. I want it to only run when the player clicks on a unit, boxes one or more units, clicks on one of the unit icons in a multi-unit selection, etc. anything that changes the selection initiated by the player, rather than by triggers |
| 01:18.41 | ArcanePariah | Hmm.... tricky.... |
| 01:20.55 | supply | to give you a better idea of what I'm trying to do: I have two AIs going against each other with waves of units spawned for each side periodically. and there's a button in a dialog that the player can press to control one side's units. the way I want it to work is that you click the button (e.g. "control red forces") and it selects all of red's units and every wave that gets spawned gets selected as well so you don't have to keep |
| 01:22.20 | ArcanePariah | I would suggest an alternative, instead of selecting every unit for the player, instead add them to a control group and let the player select them if they really want to select all the units. Continue to add units to this control group as they spawned. |
| 01:23.03 | supply | ...manually box new units. and I want this "control mode" to be disabled automatically when the player selects a unit themselves, indicating that they want to control that specific unit. what happens currently is that the unit is selected, and then all new waves are added to the selection because I can't figure out how to stopp this mode when the player does this |
| 01:24.22 | supply | nah, then they'd have to keep pressing the control group button. I don't want to make the player do anything to select new waves as they are spawned |
| 01:26.37 | ArcanePariah | Hmm... you say when the trigger does the select, you are selecting all the AI players units, and adding to that as units are spawned? |
| 01:28.07 | ArcanePariah | If that is the case, I would use a condition in the trigger to check the selected units. If the selected units == all units of that player, then it was done by triggers, if not, it was done by the player. |
| 01:29.08 | ArcanePariah | So by looking at what was selected, we can pretty confidently tell what did the selection, the triggers or the human player. |
| 01:29.36 | ArcanePariah | I would just check and compare the number of units selected to the total number of units that AI player has |
| 01:29.37 | supply | this is the part that spawns the wave and adds the unit group to the selection if the control mode is enabled: http://i.imgur.com/Z3ihlBH.png |
| 01:30.34 | ArcanePariah | Ok, I would add a boolean variable to track whether the command mode or not is active |
| 01:30.40 | supply | but the player might select a newly spawned wave, so the unit group would be identical, wouldn't it? |
| 01:30.49 | ArcanePariah | And add it to the if statement. |
| 01:31.24 | supply | that "Player Is Controlling All Red Forces" is that boolean |
| 01:32.38 | ArcanePariah | Wait, do you use this boolean in the select trigger? |
| 01:33.38 | ArcanePariah | I think you need to temporarily store the created group that you will select with triggers, and check that in the other trigger each time, so it doesn't go off from the group that is created. |
| 01:34.00 | supply | that *is* is the select trigger. this is the trigger that's supposed to disable it and doesn't work: http://i.imgur.com/L4jn1C6.png |
| 01:34.57 | ArcanePariah | Ok, for the trigger you just posted, in the condition, I would check the booleans you have set, since it should only run if command mode is enabled to begin with. |
| 01:35.00 | ArcanePariah | Correct? |
| 01:36.55 | supply | yep, but that's not really the problem. the trigger is disabled when command mode is disabled. the problem is that when a wave gets spawned and command mode is on, this trigger fires when the other wave spawning trigger selects the newly created wave |
| 01:39.05 | ArcanePariah | Hmmm.... I'll have to think on this. |
| 01:42.03 | supply | I've tried using a boolean variable that's always false, check that it is false in the conditions of the second trigger I linked you, and then set it to true before selecting a newly spawned wave and set it to false again, which logically should work but it doesn't... |
| 01:45.07 | supply | like this: http://imgur.com/SqH9FeT + http://i.imgur.com/KfeEdHL.png |
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| 02:24.44 | nice__username | Hey there. |
| 02:24.46 | nice__username | Anyone around ? |
| 02:24.58 | nice__username | I can't for the life of me figure out how to add interceptors to a carrier. |
| 02:25.06 | nice__username | They start with 4 by default. I want them to have 8 ~_ |
| 02:25.08 | nice__username | ~_~ |
| 02:25.11 | purl | STOP THAT! |
| 02:25.39 | nice__username | Huh? |
| 02:27.50 | nice__username | Okay I found out how to do it using the data editor instead of triggers. |
| 02:35.21 | pirate | so, I'm using some giant floating planes to cast shadows over sections of my map to create shadow for an indoor area |
| 02:36.29 | pirate | (why am I doing this instead of using lighting regions? Because this way is less disruptive of gameplay on low shader settings) |
| 02:37.14 | pirate | issue is shadow is only loaded into game when camera is close enough to the position of the plane itself |
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