unit dialogue trigger

[takakenji]

i have a simple trigger that, when you click on a unit, some text is displayed on the screen to show that he is "talking".

how do i make it so only the person who clicked the unit will see the text displayed?

 

[Nichilus]

How do you make the text displayed? You mean floating text?
Else there is Cinematic - Transmission from unit action where you can select to which player you want to show it.

 

[takakenji]

the text will be displayed on screen, using the

• Game - Display to (----) the text

trigger

i need to know how to set the "(------)" to the person clicking on the unit

 

[Binsu]

I fear that I think its impossible but maybe this can be useful?

• Game - Display to Player Group - Player 1 (Red) the text: Blalalala

also this, as what UndeadImmortal said....

• Game - Display to (All allies of (Triggering player)) the text: Blalalala

It will display to all units of Player 1.

 

[UndeadImmortal]

Triggering player.

 

[takakenji]

ok, i have another question.

how do i make it so a player can't spam click the unit to make the text display a bunch of times. is there any way to add a 60 second timer?

 

[Binsu]

Try turning off the trigger if you dont want it to display the text a bunch of times... this is what you meant right?

 

[Nichilus]

That won't help I think. Going by the fact that he wanted the message to show to specific player, it is for multiplayer map. If that is the case, he probably doesn't want the trigger to switch off completely, but for 1 player to be unable to get the message more than once every 60 seconds.

 

[takakenji]

yes, what nichilus says, so people don't spam it

 

[Binsu]

yes, what nichilus says, so people don't spam it

Well, I have attempt this on trigger and maybe you have to make two triggers. First trigger when a unit is clicked, display message..... then turn off trigger. Second trigger, turn on first trigger after 60 seconds. This will make the unit display the message again after 60 seconds. Hope this helps!

 

[CroMoX]

What about when a player clicks on the unit it stores the players number in a variable (integer or real can't remember), and then does in If statement, and checks to see if the players number is already stored. If it isn't it turns on a second trigger which displays the message to the triggering player using the variable. So the if statement will simply check to see if the user is already seeing the message, by the variables data.

Also if this is text you want to occur more than once, you will have to remove the data stored in the variable in the second trigger after it has been finished.

 

[UgoUgo]

Well this is what I would do when dialogue is played:

• Use an arrayed boolean variable to check if a text has been displayed
  For example:
  • Set TextHasBeenShown[Player Number of(Triggering Player)] = True
• Add a boolean condition to check if the mentioned variable is false
• After that, I would create a dummy unit with X sec expiration timer (save it in arrayed variable)
• The unit would act as timer
• Create a new trigger that starts with 'A unit dies'
• Check if the unit is the mentioned dummy unit (E.g: Triggering unit equals to Dummy[1])
• Then,
  • Set TextHasBeenShown[Player Number of(Owner of (Triggering Unit))] = False

Of course, this is not the most efficient way. Nor the most professional way.