Question About Triggers Half Red References

[tulee]

Hi guys, I looked for an answer to this on the forum but could not find anything relevant.

Basically, I regularly come across triggers that are half red half white in the world editor because a reference to a unit is missing.

(Please ignore the blacked-out parts, they are not relevant).
As you can see, the references to units (in this trigger n602_0050) has become greyed out (which can be fixed by double clicking it). If trigger lines remain greyed out, then the white page of the trigger is half red half white, instead of being fully white.

I normally thought that if a trigger has that half red half white page next to its name, then the entire thing basically would not work. But I just played a map which ran fine even though it had these greyed out references to certain units. Was just curious what the go is with them. Do I need to go through all these maps and double click them to "un-grey" them, or If I leave them as they are, will they still work fine?

 

[Rheiko]

It really depends on what the disabled functions do in those triggers that you mentioned.
Since we know they are mostly missing references, it now depends on what they do with said references.
If the references are required for the other functions to work, then while you can save and play the map normally, unintended things might happen down the line. Which I'm afraid is not what you want.

Edit: From your screenshot, it simply means the function that handles the removal of those units from the game will not do its job because it's disabled due to missing reference.

 

[tulee]

It really depends on what the disabled functions do in those triggers that you mentioned.
Since we know they are mostly missing references, it now depends on what they do with said references.
If the references are required for the other functions to work, then while you can save and play the map normally, unintended things might happen down the line. Which I'm afraid is not what you want.

Okay, I will just go through them all and double click on everything greyed out. Thanks!

 

[Rheiko]

Sorry, I didn't notice your screenshot earlier (or it probably didn't load for some reason), so I edited my previous post.
But yes, double check on everything greyed out is for the best outcome. You are welcome.

 

[Chaosium]

If the trigger is crossed red then it won't fire at all, but with that red triangle it will still run as much as possible and ignore all the greyed-out stuff, although yeah it's safer to correct the errors if you can

 

[Uncle]

All of your GUI triggers are converted into code when you launch the map. So anything that is disabled in the Trigger Editor will simply be ignored when this conversion process takes place. Therefore, those two red Actions in your picture literally do not exist when it comes time to play the map.