Display Text - Trigger once per player

[hweeter]

Hi Hive,

I am trying to setup a trigger for displaying a text message when entering zones or walking up to quest givers etc.

I want it to trigger once per player, currently it triggers for the first person to trigger it and then wont work anymore.

If someone can point me in the right direction that would be amazing.

I have attached a screenshot of the trigger, its using a Boolean Array of 1 and set to False default.

Thanks


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[FUJI]

Can't view those...
Use [trigger][/trigger] tags instead.
Go to your triggers, right click the name at the top of the event then 'copy as text'
And paste or insert into those tags.

 

[A]mun]

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit enters Region 000 <gen>
  • Conditions
    • _tst[(Player number of (Owner of (Triggering unit)))] Equal to False
  • Actions
    • Set VariableSet _tst[(Player number of (Owner of (Triggering unit)))] = True
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: test

where tst is your boolean array variable

 

[FUJI]

I want it to trigger once per player, currently it triggers for the first person to trigger it and then wont work anymore.

What do you mean by person, is it the unit or the player?
I'm confused, your script may work once per player that owns the entering unit and nothing more...
which you're trying to point out on the underlying condition.
If this doesn't work, debug the player number instead of displaying that 'test' and another for displaying the boolean value.
If it doesn't show then transfer the condition inside the actions using if else block and put the debug messages above of it.
Finally, test entering each unit with different players.
If the debug message doesn't show the values this time then we have the problem...
Probably, it's the region.

Or If you're referring to that region to be activated again on some point by the player
Use timers or local with waits to make the condition true again.
(Waits are inaccurate on some cases although they're not that harmful in this kind of script)
You may use shadowing variables if the event response TriggeringUnit() doesn't work in this type of event with waits.
For accuracy and efficiency, a countdown or periodic timer will do but takes long way.

If you're just making it multi unit instance then do use of their handleIds.

 

[hweeter]

Thanks for the reply's guys, really appreciate it. I was going to make it a global chat and give up.

I got it to work as intended with what A]mun posted.

[(Player number of (Owner of (Triggering unit)))] instead of [(Player number of (Triggering player)))].

I also removed the conditions defining each player.

Thanks!!


Edit

I was trying to make it trigger only once per player, its a single unit 8 player RPG and I didnt want all NPC dialog to be global.