Trigger Trouble

[Mike H]

Hi! I was directed to this message board from another message board. So far it sounds and looks pretty useful! Anyways... I'm having some troubles with triggers on a map i've been working on for awhile. What I have right now looks something like this:


Conditions: Player 1 kills exactly 1 Critter
Actions:Create 1 Critter at 'P1 Critter Cage' for Player 1


When I test the map, then 2 or 3 critters always seem to appear in the 'cage' when i kill one - after this, when i kill another critter, it doesnt work again. I guessed that adding 'Preserve Trigger' would make it keep working, so i tried this, only to find that after i killed 1 creature, more and more creatures would be continually added to the 'cage'.
I hope this makes sense to any who are reading it.

Thanks A lot!

 

[Ilendil]

Can I ask who showed you this msg board?

Anyways you need to use switches to do this form of triggers.

CONDITION
- Player 1 kills at least 1 Critter
ACTION
- Set 'Create Critter'
- Preserve Trigger

CONDITION
- 'Create Critter' is set
ACTION
- Create 1 Critter at 'P1 Critter Cage' for Player 1
- Clear 'Create Critter'
- Preserve Trigger

 

[mharms271]

I found a link to this forum from opentechsupport.net. A user named FREAK posted the link http://www.the-group.org/forums/for...p?s=&forumid=16 which redirected me here! ( It was well worth the journey).

Anyways... I thought it might have something to do with switches...I just didnt know how to use them. I tried what you said Illendil, but what happens now is that the critters keep appearing in the cage until it is full, after killing only 1.

I'm not sure if it makes any difference, but I'm using "Starcraft X-Tra Editor v.2.5". Maybe I'm doing something else wrong. I'm not sure.

Thanks again for all the help!

 

[Ilendil]

Oh I see why, you need to put a set deaths action trigger in the second trigger and a deaths condition in the first trigger.

The new triggers would look like this:

CONDITION
- Player 2 has suffered at least 1 deaths of Critter
ACTION
- Set 'Create Critter'
- Preserve Trigger

CONDITION
- 'Create Critter' is set
ACTION
- Create 1 Critter at 'P1 Critter Cage' for Player 1
- Modify death counts for Player 2: Set exactly 0 for Critter
- Clear 'Create Critter'
- Preserve Trigger

If that doesn't work...

 

[mharms271]

Awesome! It works! Thanks a lot Illendil! You must have a ton of experience with map making.
What are some maps that you have made?

 

[Ilendil]

I haven't made that many maps (like 3), only one of my maps are pretty good in my opinion.

http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4805