1 Use Triggers

[Kino]

How important is it clean up "quest triggers"
eg. I would like to display a message the first time a player builds something. Do I just turn off the trigger after running it once, or is there some other thing I need to do?

 

[ThompZon]

I sometimes do something along the lines of:

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Custom script: call DestroyTrigger(GetTriggeringTrigger())

Instead of GetTriggeringTrigger(), you can use a trigger-variable or reference the GUI-generated trigger-names (gg_trg_Untitled_Trigger_001) to destroy other triggers.

Note that there are some down-sides of destroying triggers, but if it's only a fairly normal trigger (I.E. isn't triggered by complicated systems such as a Damage Engine) it's fine.

 

[Master Zul'khan]

GetTriggeringTrigger()

Does this get the trigger which runs this script? And is it needed to put anything in-between ( )?

 

[Duckfarter]

Does this get the trigger which runs this script? And is it needed to put anything in-between ( )?

That function returns the trigger which runs the script. You dont need to put anything in-between the ().
GetTriggeringTrigger() does not require any arguments because it only returns an argument.

function GetTriggeringTrigger takes [B]nothing[/B] returns [B]trigger[/B]
...
endfunction

The parenthesises are used if you want to add arguments to the function.

function DestroyTrigger takes [B]trigger whichTrigger[/B] returns [B]nothing[/B]
...
endfunction

 

[Master Zul'khan]

Thanx! This is good cause i used to set a tempTrigger variable to get the trigger i wanted to destroy.