random hints

[FirstLegacy]

hi. i'm not good in triggers gui or jass...
but in making Random Hints?.. what you do?.. like pero 60 seconds a random HINT will appear.. not in order...

 

[Dawn]

Something like this?

• Initialization
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set string_var[1] = blabla
    • Set string_var[2] = blabla
    • Set string_var[3] = blabla
    • Set string_var[4] = blabla
    • Set string_var[5] = blabla
    • Set string_int = 5

• Periodic Hint
  • Events
    • Time - Every 60.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: string_var[(Random integer number between 1 and string_int)]

string_var are your hints
string_int is the total number of hints

 

[FirstLegacy]

thank you...

+rep

 

[Vinz]

That would repeat hints. Have an integer counter and reduce it every time if you don't want to.

 

[Kusanagi Kuro]

^ No problem about that at all . I see most of the maps sometimes repeat the hints but it's not really affect the map much .

 

[deathismyfriend]

If you have a lot of hints you should make sure they don't repeat.
If you only have a small number of hints then repeating is fine.

 

[Vinz]

Yes someone might miss vital information or something.

 

[deathismyfriend]

Yes someone might miss vital information or something.

A hint should not contain any vital information for the gameplay of the game.

If it is vital info for the game then it should be put in the quest tab or in a game message that gets displayed at a certain time in the game.

 

[Vinz]

Not that kind, I mean some hero tips and such.

 

[deathismyfriend]

if its a tip of hint then it shouldn't be vital info. If it is vital then it's not a tip / hint.

 

[Dr Super Good]

You should also use less random, random hints.

Set all messages to a string array. Pick a random index from the array (random integer) for a random hint. Keep track of the last hint and if it gets chosen again you try to roll again (up to a maximum of X times to prevent possible thread crash).

 

[Nichilus]

Alternatively, you could get X messages and choose random message between 1 and (X-1). Then swap that chosen message with last message in the list. That will prevent showing same messages as well.

e.g. 5 messages, so you choose random message between 1 and 4. Say message 3 has been chosen, then show that message and swap it with message 5. Now message 5 text is saved as Message3 and vice versa.

 

[deathismyfriend]

Alternatively, you could get X messages and choose random message between 1 and (X-1). Then swap that chosen message with last message in the list. That will prevent showing same messages as well.

e.g. 5 messages, so you choose random message between 1 and 4. Say message 3 has been chosen, then show that message and swap it with message 5. Now message 5 text is saved as Message3 and vice versa.

the problem with this is the same 2 messages can be shown over and over again.

 

[Nichilus]

Well yeah that was the point... or so I thought. What I wrote about is when you want to cycle through random hints, but you don't want to show the same message twice or more in a row.

 

[deathismyfriend]

ya i know what you mean it's just more complicated than you posted.

basically you store all hints from lets say 1 to 10.

then you have an integer array thats empty and an integer array with integers from 1 to 10 and a max index integer

you then use a loop to store the integers from the integer array with integers into the empty integer array and de-index the old integer.
then you use the old array that used to be empty as the index for the hint.