What about hints?

[MrFustrated]

:banghead: I just dont know how? :banghead:
First off I am new! Yey!
But im going to try not to be as big a pain as I am proving to be

I have a question,

If you ever played a tower wars where you get a hint pop up randomly every 10 secs (you may think this is enoying but it would be good to put on a Game,)
well can you tell me these things,
1. How to store all the hints.
2. How to make the triggers randomly select a hint,
3. How to display these hints to the users (I allready know how to make text appear, It doesnt take rocket science)

Thank you for your help, and I would like to say that I am a big user of the Warcraft Tutorial Site.
Thanks again!

 

[Vexorian]

You need a string array hints and an integer variable hintsn, and an integer variable x

At map initialization:
-
set hints[1]= blah blah blah
set hints[2]= blah blah blah
""
set hints[30]= blah blah blah
set hintsn=30


When you want to show a hint:

if  conditions:
  (hintsn) greater than 0
then do actions
     set x=Random Integer number from 1 to hintsn
    Show - Text to all players Concatenate strings ( HINT - ) + (hints[x])
    set hints[x] = hints[hintsn]
    set hintsn= hintsn -1

 

[TFlan]

You need a string array hints and an integer variable hintsn, and an integer variable x

At map initialization:
-
set hints[1]= blah blah blah
set hints[2]= blah blah blah
""
set hints[30]= blah blah blah
set hintsn=30

He is right there, but wrong here:

... When you want to show a hint:

if  conditions:
  (hintsn) greater than 0
then do actions
     set x=Random Integer number from 1 to hintsn
    Show - Text to all players Concatenate strings ( HINT - ) + (hints[x])
    set hints[x] = hints[hintsn]
    set hintsn= hintsn -1

Do this instead (he had most of it right though):

(( N = Any Number ))

Trigger 1
Events:
Time - Every (time here) seconds of game time

Condtions:
-None-

Actions:
Set Hints[n] = Hints[n+1]
If Hints[n] = Hints[30] then do Set Hints[n] = Hints[1] else do nothing
Game - Display to (All Players) the text: Hints[n]

 

[Demonfaze]

I think Vexorian is right actually because the original poster wanted it to "randomly" select a hint, not go in order from 1 to 30.

 

[TFlan]

well if it went randomly you could end up with showing the same hint twice in arow. So hear what i have to say, Instead of labing them Hint 1: Text so it with just the 'Text' part so they know its not going in order but they get all the info before the game ends and so it wount show twice.

 

[Demonfaze]

Yeah, I guess, but the chance of it showing the same tip twice is very low and even if it was, its not like someone would think of it as a "bad" map because it did that.

Later on he could just add some type of boolean to check if it had been shown or not.

 

[TFlan]

yes you could something like this acualy:

Events:
Time - Every 10 seconds of game time

Conditions:
-None-

Actions:
Set Hints = Hints[random number between 1-30]
If Hints[n] = Hints_check then do Run This trigger ignoreing conditions else do skip remaining actions
Game - Display to (All Players) the text: Hints[n]
Set Hints_check = n

 

[Demonfaze]

Yep, exactly. Except that it should be more like 1 tip every minute instead of every 10 seconds.

 

[TFlan]

=MrFustrated]
If you ever played a tower wars where you get a hint pop up randomly every 10 secs (you may think this is enoying but it would be good to put on a Game,)

He said 10 seconds

 

[Demonfaze]

Ah sorry. But seriously 10 seconds... thats like how long the tip is usually shown on screen. You would have to be constantly reading tips or something?

 

[TFlan]

Yah thats true

 

[Demonfaze]

People get annoyed with my minutely tips... Maybe you can add a trigger that turns tips off for the person. Shouldn't be too hard with just a single boolean varaible (array if you want it to stop showing for an exact amount of people). If you don't know how I'll post a trigger.

 

[TFlan]

So... something like this?

Trigger 1

Events:
Map Installation

Conditions:
-None-

Actions:
Player Group - Pick every player in (All Players) and (Add (Picked Player) to (Hint_Show))

Then this

Trigger 2

Events:
Player - Player 1 types a chat message containing -no hints as an axact match
Player - Player 2 types a chat message containing -no hints as an axact match
Player - Player 3 types a chat message containing -no hints as an axact match
(and so for all players)


Conditions:
-None-

Actions:
Player Group - Remove (Triggering Player) from (Hint_Show)

And else do this

Trigger 3
Events:
Time - Every 10 seconds of game time

Conditions:
-None-

Actions:
Set Hints = Hints[random number between 1-30]
If Hints[n] = Hints_check then do Run This trigger ignoreing conditions else do skip remaining actions
Game - Display to (Player Group(Hint_Show)) the text: Hints[n]
Set Hints_check = n

 

[Demonfaze]

Yeah, that would work.
I was thinking something like

Player types -no tips
set ShowTipsToThisPlayer[player number of triggering player] = false

then just add in conditions for the tips would be

For each integer A 1 to 10 do actions
if ShowTipsToThisPlayer[Integer A] equal to true then game display text msg "TIP!!!"

 

[TFlan]

No offence, but my way is easier and faster to do than yours.

 

[Vexorian]

Anyone noticed my version already makes sure no hint is shown twice?

 

[Demonfaze]

Damn, you're right lol.

I just realized you're the elite dude from wc3campaigns who made the awesome map optimizer I use, the temporary patch for WEU/UMSWE, a bunch of jass trigger scripts, other programs, countless custom abilities, everything!

Player11: yeah your way is easier and faster. My way is just what popped into my head.

 

[TFlan]

Hold on let me think .... Nope.... lol

But my last version of the hint thing includes disabling it for the players who dont want it.

 

[TFlan]

... I just realized you're the elite dude from wc3campaigns who made the awesome map optimizer I use, the temporary patch for WEU/UMSWE, a bunch of jass trigger scripts, other programs, countless custom abilities, everything! ...

Err is he some1 im supposed to know??? Yes i use the map optimizer, but the other stuff, even though i do use WEU

 

[Demonfaze]

If a program is made by Vexorian, all other programs of its genre seem like crap, lol.

If you've ever been to wc3sear.ch/wc3campaigns.com (joined sites) and looked at all of the best abilties Vexorian's name would pop up quite a bit. He even does requests!