Message Conditions

[PotatoMeister]

Is there a way to add a condition that prevents a message from being activated if there's already a bunch of messages being displayed? I have this map where killing certain targets gives a reward, however potentially you could kill several quest targets at the same time spamming the message board. This is more a precaution then a necessity.

 

[Uncle]

If Then Else statements are used to run Actions only if certain Conditions are met.

So the logic would be: If My Condition is Equal to (True/False) then Display text message.

For this particular situation you could use a Boolean variable as your condition to prevent the messages from being displayed and a Timer to then reenable the messages after X seconds has passed.

So whenever you want to display a message you would do something like this:

• Actions
• If SkipTextMsg is Equal to False then do Actions:
  • Game - Display your text message / Quest message
  • Set Variable SkipTextMsg = True
  • Countdown Timer - Start SkipMsgTimer as a one-shot timer that will expire in 5.00 seconds

After 5.00 seconds the SkipMsgTimer will expire and set SkipTextMsg to False again which will allow a new message to be displayed:

• Events
  • Time - SkipMsgTimer expires
• Actions
  • Set Variable SkipTextMsg = False

Note that this single Timer/Boolean approach means it will be shared between all players. You may want to give each player their own Timer/Boolean depending on how your map works. Also, note that when you Start a one-shot Timer that is already running it will simply restart the Timer.