Group activation and deactivation

[ickyline]

Hi all,

 

In my new mission i try to do some tips with activation and deactivation trigger.

 

For now, I can activate a group when my airplane is on the trigger zone and deactivate this group when my airplane is not in the trigger zone.

 

For that i use something like this :

 

Trigger 1 : Do Once: Time +1 : activate flag 1.1

Trigger 2 : Condition : "If flag is 1.1" "unit myplane is in park triggerzone" : "set flag 1.2"

Trigger 3 : Condition : "If Flag is 1.2" : "Activate group 1 "/ "set flag 1.1"

Trigger 4 : Condition : "If flag is 1.1" "unit myplane is not in park triggerzone" : "set flag 1.3"

Trigger 5 : Condition : "If flag is 1.3" : "Deactivate group 1"/ "set flag 1.1"

 

It works fine at the moment.

 

But my problem is, if i spawn on the trigger zone the group is activate, when i move out of the trigerzone the group deactivate. But if i go back in the trigger zone the group don't activate anymore.

 

How can i create a cycle for entering and exit a trigger zone with activation and deactivation works each time i enter or exit?

[Rudel_chw]

Use "SWITCHED CONDITION" trigger type, rather than "ONCE"

[SUNTSAG]

Unfortunately using a "SWITCHED" or now labelled "REPETITIVE ACTION" will not help here. The OP is deactivating a unit which will remove it from the mission entirely.

 

Essentially there is nothing available to activate once deactivation has taken place. I hope that makes sense. Cheers.

[ickyline]

Unfortunately using a "SWITCHED" or now labelled "REPETITIVE ACTION" will not help here. The OP is deactivating a unit which will remove it from the mission entirely.

 

Essentially there is nothing available to activate once deactivation has taken place. I hope that makes sense. Cheers.

 

There is no script for this? like "mist" or something?

[robgraham]

yeah you can use mist or moose to do what you want ickyline but you didn't ask that..

 

with moose for example you'd do something like this (note this isn't 100% it's just quick code)

myZone = ZONE:New("Zone1") -- store our zone
myPlayergroup = GROUP:FindByName("myPlayerGroup") -- store our player group
Group1 = nil -- for our spawn
isinzone = false -- so we don't' trigger multiple times below

-- our function checker
function checker()
if myPlayergroup:IsAnyInZone(myZone) then
 if isinzone == false then
  Group1 = SPAWN:New("MyAIGroup"):Spawn() -- make our group save it in Group1 so we can kill it later
  isinzone = true  -- we are in the zone so set this true and don't trigger again for now.
 end
else
 if isinzone == true then
     if Group1 ~= nil then -- if our group isn't nil eg it did actually spawn
        Group1:Destroy()  -- then destroy it.
     end
     isinzone = false -- we arne't in the zone no more so we can set this false
 end
end
end

SCHEDULER:New(nil,checker,{},1,1) --  create a new scheduler for checker run it every second

[Paganus]

Switched condition still exists.

 

Rather than remove the unit (deactivate) you could just turn the AI on and off. (Group AI on, Group AI off)

[Colmillo]

On 11/17/2019 at 1:44 PM, robgraham said:

yeah you can use mist or moose to do what you want ickyline but you didn't ask that..

 

with moose for example you'd do something like this (note this isn't 100% it's just quick code)

 

myZone = ZONE:New("Zone1") -- store our zone
myPlayergroup = GROUP:FindByName("myPlayerGroup") -- store our player group
Group1 = nil -- for our spawn
isinzone = false -- so we don't' trigger multiple times below

-- our function checker
function checker()
if myPlayergroup:IsAnyInZone(myZone) then
 if isinzone == false then
  Group1 = SPAWN:New("MyAIGroup"):Spawn() -- make our group save it in Group1 so we can kill it later
  isinzone = true  -- we are in the zone so set this true and don't trigger again for now.
 end
else
 if isinzone == true then
     if Group1 ~= nil then -- if our group isn't nil eg it did actually spawn
        Group1:Destroy()  -- then destroy it.
     end
     isinzone = false -- we arne't in the zone no more so we can set this false
 end
end
end

SCHEDULER:New(nil,checker,{},1,1) --  create a new scheduler for checker run it every second

 

 

Hi, thanks works perfect.
Can you help me?
I'm trying to set myPlayergroup as a coalition, so every time some of them inside the zone trigger the spawn.
I cannot find the argument for that.

Thanks in advance

[robgraham]

On 8/19/2021 at 6:51 AM, Colmillo said:

Hi, thanks works perfect.
Can you help me?
I'm trying to set myPlayergroup as a coalition, so every time some of them inside the zone trigger the spawn.
I cannot find the argument for that.

Thanks in advance

For a coalition you'd do it a diffrent way around you'd look at the zone or do a set and then trigger off that.

so something like.

mz = ZONE:New("Test") -- Test would be the zone in ME.

SCHEDULER:New(nil,function() 
  if mz:IsSomeInZoneOfCoalition(coalition.side.BLUE) then
  -- code for spawning here
  
  end
end,{},60,60) -- run this starting 1 minute in and every 1 minute after.

 

[Colmillo]

On 8/23/2021 at 12:04 PM, robgraham said:

For a coalition you'd do it a diffrent way around you'd look at the zone or do a set and then trigger off that.

so something like.

mz = ZONE:New("Test") -- Test would be the zone in ME.

SCHEDULER:New(nil,function() 
  if mz:IsSomeInZoneOfCoalition(coalition.side.BLUE) then
  -- code for spawning here
  
  end
end,{},60,60) -- run this starting 1 minute in and every 1 minute after.

 

Thank you so much for taking time to help me.
Cheers!

[aldo]

Ciao @robgraham, i'm not really a code man unfortunately.

So the idea is to activate or deactivate a group when something happens , like a flag... this IMHO is very usefull for make a mission/scenario lighter for MP and servers.

In this case (coalition one)...The code should run like:

 

mz = ZONE:New("Test") -- Test would be the zone in ME.

SCHEDULER:New(nil,function()    
     if mz:IsSomeInZoneOfCoalition(coalition.side.BLUE) then
        -- code for spawning here
---> here I got confused  <---

???  should I insert this line  ???
myPlayergroup = GROUP:FindByName("myPlayerGroup") -- store our player group


end end,{},60,60) -- run this starting 1 minute in and every 1 minute after.
er for checker run it every second