[Solved] Chat commands for teleportations. My triggers are messy.

[Dragonkillerrus]

I’m making an RPG map (6 heroes and 6 players) and I want to allow players to teleport their hero by typing –Checkpoint (number)
I actually know how to do this, but my method will take way too much time.
Here is my working idea

TP1

• Dragonkillerrus
• Apr 1, 2017

I can just keep making that, but I want to have multiple checkpoints and I don’t want to make them accessible from the start. That’s why I turn them off, but that means I have to do smth like this:

TP2

• Dragonkillerrus
• Apr 1, 2017

Please help me simplify this mess.

Extra info:

I have set variables for each of my heroes (BeastM) and no, you can’t have multiples of the same heroes in one game (you select heroes by entering specific areas).

 

[Chaosium]

It tells me I don't have permission to view your albums :<

 

[Dragonkillerrus]

It tells me I don't have permission to view your albums :<

oh crap, sry >_< my bad

 

[Chaosium]

Mmh, are you familiar with substrings? I'm pretty sure you can make a trigger that detects what number players type after "-checkpoint ", and if you store regions into variables with corresponding numbers, it would be then easy to send the unit to the right region just with one trigger.

 

[Dragonkillerrus]

Mmh, are you familiar with substrings? I'm pretty sure you can make a trigger that detects what number players type after "-checkpoint ", and if you store regions into variables with corresponding numbers, it would be then easy to send the unit to the right region just with one trigger.

No, I don't know how to do that. Can you give me an example?

 

[Jampion]

• Checkpoint
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing -Checkpoint as A substring
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set CheckpointNumber = (Integer((Substring((Entered chat string), 13, 16))))
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: (String(CheckpointNumber))

Substring only uses a certain part of the string. You first check, if the first part is "-Checkpoint " (including the space at the end).
Then you convert the rest of the string into a number. I used 13-16 which are 4 digits, so you can have numbers up to 9999. Also negative numbers are possible (-Checkpoint -4).

 

[Chaosium]

There's a tutorial if you want to read about substrings here

Basically, substrings let you select part of strings. Numbers correspond to the "spot" of the character in the string, like coordinates in a grid.

 

[Dragonkillerrus]

• Checkpoint
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing -Checkpoint as A substring
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set CheckpointNumber = (Integer((Substring((Entered chat string), 13, 16))))
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: (String(CheckpointNumber))

Substring only uses a certain part of the string. You first check, if the first part is "-Checkpoint " (including the space at the end).
Then you convert the rest of the string into a number. I used 13-16 which are 4 digits, so you can have numbers up to 9999. Also negative numbers are possible (-Checkpoint -4).

What kind of variable is this?

 

[Jampion]

it's an integer it stores the number the played entered in the chat.

 

[Dragonkillerrus]

it's an integer it stores the number the played entered in the chat.

I've made your trigger, but I still don't really understand how this is going to help me :|

 

[Jampion]

Substring is a part of a string. The two numbers indicate first and last letter.

"-Checkpoint " is:

edit: the dots don't mean anything. They are just place holders. Apparently Hive does not allow multiple spaces next to each other.

- C h e c k p o. i .n . t . _
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

the number after it is:

.x . x . x . x
13 14 15 16

Substring(entered chat string,13,16) is the number after "-Checkpoint".

You should also add a condition:
substring(entered chat string,1,12) equal to "-Checkpoint "
this makes sure, that "-Checkpoint " is actually the beginning of the entered chat string.

Once you have got the number entered it should be easy. You will have an array if checkpoints.
Something like checkpoint[3] = center of region (checkpointregion03)

In your trigger you use: move instantly to checkpoint[CheckpointNumber]

You should make sure first that the entered number (CheckpointNumber) is actually the number of a checkpoint you already activated.

 

[DaneTheBeast]

Well first of it's hard to see what you already have done because it's not in English. You should post triggers in the trigger tags. Here's the tutorial
You can simplify by putting all events that are similar (player 1 types bla, player 2 types bla....etc) in one trigger, and then through conditions and actions you regulate what should happen.
To simplify even more you can use a loop and "Trigger - Add event" action to add events to triggers when the map starts.

 

[Chaosium]

I've made your trigger, but I still don't really understand how this is going to help me :|

You should now create a region variable with an array and store all your regions. For instance, checkpoint 1 = YourRegionVariable[1]

Then you should be able to move your unit with "Unit - Move to Center of YourRegionVariable[(Entered chat string, 13, 16)]"

 

[Dragonkillerrus]

You should now create a region variable with an array and store all your regions. For instance, checkpoint 1 = YourRegionVariable[1]

Then you should be able to move your unit with "Unit - Move to Center of YourRegionVariable[(Entered chat string, 13, 16)]"

Can't find "Entered chat string", can only see String lenght and only then I can find Entered chat string. So its like "Unit-Move to Center of Variable[Lenght of (Entered chat string)]

 

[Jampion]

you need to use conversion String to integer and then you can choose strings

 

[Dragonkillerrus]

• Checkpoint
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing -Checkpoint as A substring
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set CheckpointNumber = (Integer((Substring((Entered chat string), 13, 16))))
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: (String(CheckpointNumber))

Substring only uses a certain part of the string. You first check, if the first part is "-Checkpoint " (including the space at the end).
Then you convert the rest of the string into a number. I used 13-16 which are 4 digits, so you can have numbers up to 9999. Also negative numbers are possible (-Checkpoint -4).

You means this?

 

[Jampion]

I am going to make a map in about 10 minutes showing how to do it. It's actually quite simple, but hard to explain.

Edit: map uploaded.

 

[Dragonkillerrus]

All is clear to me now

Thank you everyone!