How to gain X gold with chat trigger?

[BenQuick]

Hi everyone! I am making my map and i don`t know how to make the trigger, where anyone could type in chat for example 2000 and 2000 would become value of some variable?

 

[Dr Super Good]

use the chat even to trigger it where it is a substring and the activator is the command word.

Then use substrings to separate the gold or wood fields from the command string.

You can then pass those through a string to integer conversion. Finally allocate that integer to the corosponding variable.

 

[Maker]

Here's waht DSG said in a trigger:

• Untitled Trigger 038
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing -gold as A substring
  • Conditions
    • (Substring((Entered chat string), 1, 5)) Equal to -gold
  • Actions
    • Set i1 = (Integer((Substring((Entered chat string), 6, (Length of (Entered chat string))))))

Typing -gold 1000 would set the value of i1 to 1000.

 

[defskull]

I think we should avoid using "Variable" in this case, don't you think so, Maker ?

This trigger will let it work for all players in the map

• Setup For MPI
  • Events
    • Time - Elapsed game time is 0.00 seconds
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • For each (Integer A) from 1 to 12, do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Trigger - Add to Types <gen> the event (Player - (Player((Integer A))) types a chat message containing -gold as A substring)

This is the main trigger for the "-gold XXX" to work

• Types
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Player - Add (Integer((Substring((Entered chat string), 7, 999)))) to (Triggering player) Current gold

 

[Adiktuz]

why use an init trigger when you could add them at the trigger itself?

I think we should avoid using "Variable" in this case, don't you think so, Maker ?

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Hi everyone! I am making my map and i don`t know how to make the trigger, where anyone could type in chat for example 2000 and 2000 would become value of some variable?

 

[defskull]

Didn't see that coming

 

[-Kobas-]

why use an init trigger when you could add them at the trigger itself?

In this case there is no point, but imagine maps with 10 command triggers, 12 x 10 = 120
120 events can be replaced with 1 loop and 12 trigger actions

 

[Dr Super Good]

You should rather use a force enum of all human players who are playing than all 12 player slots. This would avoid redundant event generation and save on some code execution.

Only humans can type game messages. Even if AI could be brought to do this via triggers, it would be far better to execute the command actions directly.
Only humans that are playing can send chat messages. Not all 12 slots may contain humans and out of those not all of them may be playing (started without a full house or droppers).

Only in this case would a chat event binding system be useful to save game resources. Such a system should prety much be 1 function call though with the same parameters as the chat event but without a specified player slot.

 

[defskull]

I was mind-f**ked by DSG's statement.

 

[-Kobas-]

You should rather use a force enum of all human players who are playing than all 12 player slots. This would avoid redundant event generation and save on some code execution.

Only humans can type game messages. Even if AI could be brought to do this via triggers, it would be far better to execute the command actions directly.
Only humans that are playing can send chat messages. Not all 12 slots may contain humans and out of those not all of them may be playing (started without a full house or droppers).

Only in this case would a chat event binding system be useful to save game resources. Such a system should prety much be 1 function call though with the same parameters as the chat event but without a specified player slot.

Well I used all 12 to show him example, same can work with force and so on!

When I think about it you can check if player play before throwing him into trigger event with simple if the else function
This way you will generate events only for playing players

So yes, using 1 additional trigger should become your addiction/habit