addGroup and triggers

[lanmancz]

Hello,

I use addGroup function in my missions a lot so every time I play it's different. What I would like to do is to create a trigger that would test if for example one of the spawned groups is inside/outside of a predefined zone.

Let's say I will create a group of tanks with group id 101 and name "Group1" and I want to test if they arrived into Zone1 that I placed in the mission editor. I cannot setup the trigger in mission editor itself as you can only select trigger options, not write them in so is there a way to perhaps spawn the trigger with script in similar way as you can spawn groups with addGroup ? I didn't find any addTrigger command on wiki.

One solution that comes to my mind is to create a repeating trigger in mission editor that will just constantly run a script that I would write that would check the relative zone and group positions using getPosition and if distance from zone center is less than zone radius then setup a flag. Is there perhaps a nicer way of doing this please ?

Edited January 12, 2015 by lanmancz

[Grimes]

You would have to write a script that basically does the same thing as the trigger and then periodically check that. It is a pretty straight forward script that you could write on your own that works precisely as you have thought out.

 

Mist has a function that does a lot of the work for you, you just need to give it the variables to check :) http://wiki.hoggit.us/view/Units_in_zones

[lanmancz]

Alright, thanks.

Yeah I need to take a look at mist more closely. I didn't use it so far and rather wrote everything myself but I guess there is no need to reinvent the wheel.