Thread: Array question

Can you use an array to spawn a trigger in different place and have them use same model? or would you need to make a separate trigger for each thing?

like say spawn a crate in 3 locations that explodes when triggered, would you make the array for model or trigger?

I read Sor's post http://www.x-null.net/forums/showthr...ll=1#post12654 here but to be honest I don't have any idea what it means...lol

I've done it with teleports with help from you guys but that was for " random " spots (below from above post)

Code:

local.array = makeArray
( -432.25 1078.15 23.56 ) ( 0 175 0 )
( -1560.30 -127.01 -22.43 ) ( 0 -95 0 )
( -1560.30 -127.01 -22.43 ) ( 0 -95 0 )
( 560.23 -66.56 -47.20 ) ( 0 -126 0 )
endArray

for (local.i = 1; local.i <= local.array.size; local.i++) {
	local.static = spawn script_model model "static/indycrate.tik"
	local.static.origin = local.array[local.i][1]
	local.static.angles = local.array[local.i][2]
	local.static solid
	local.static nodamage
}

so that will spawn a crate in those cords. would I do the same thing for the trigger? or do you thread the trigger after " local.static nodamage"

ok thanks see if I can do what I want.

Originally Posted by DoubleKill

Code:

for(local.i = 1;local.i <= local.array.size;local.i++)
{
    local.static = spawn script_model model "static/indycrate.tik";
    local.static.origin = local.array[local.i][1];
    local.static.angles = local.array[local.i][2];
    local.static solid;
    local.static nodamage;

    local.n = 2
   

local.tr[local.n] = spawn trigger_multiple 
local.tr[local.n].origin = ( local.array[local.i][1] )
local.tr[local.n] setsize ( -10 -10 -10 ) ( 10 10 10 )
local.tr[local.n] setthread tr

local.n++
}

The above makes no sense because variable n will be set to 2 every time. You actually don't need to keep a list of the triggers if you use the same targetname for each one.

for(local.i = 1;local.i <= local.array.size;local.i++)
{
    local.box = spawn script_model model "static/indycrate.tik"
    local.box.origin = local.array[local.i][1]
    local.box.angles = local.array[local.i][2]
    local.box solid
    local.box nodamage

    local.trig = spawn trigger_multiple "targetname" "mytrigger"
    local.trig.origin = ( local.array[local.i][1] )
    local.trig setsize ( -10 -10 -10 ) ( 10 10 10 )
    local.trig setthread triggerThread
}

And to iterate over your triggers, simply do

for(local.i = 1; local.i <= $mytrigger.size; local.i++) {
      $mytrigger[local.i] //...
}

This has the advantage that the game is now responsible for managing this array. If you spawn a new entity with this targetname, it will be added to the array. If you remove an entity with this targetname, it will be also removed from the array.

Originally Posted by DoubleKill

On the trigger you have to always put a different targetname if not when someone shot in one of the objects is going to remove all the objects at the same time.

If you delete them by using their targetname, this would be true. However, self refers to the trigger entity in the thread called by the trigger, so you can just do this:

triggerThread:
    local.player = parm.other;
    // do trigger stuff
    self remove;
end;

well I got it working but I didn't use Doublekills way and I just read yours, thanks to both of you all knowledge is helpful and I save all this stuff to text files to refer back later on. What I did was ripped off part of Gotchs capture manon thing and combined it to what I had and it seems to work good.