great! , tks

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Yeah, especially since I'm an RMS developer! I might have to make my latest map a scenario since it is heavily hand coded. But now that I have a way to do this outside the VC file it's worth doing. It took me three days to find someone to help test that RMS because of the VC file d/l so I don't think that it's a viable way of doing triggers for multiplay... I need to join up with a good design group so I have access to good testers & experienced developers, but who would have me?

I have a few more trigger conditions that I haven't tested out yet, but will likely release tonight. One is "Player Is Human" & the other is "Player On Team" - used for determining if the player is a computer or human and the other to check which team they are on.

<Condition name="Player Human">
<Param name="Player" dispName="$$22301$$Player" VarType="player">1</Param>
<Param name="MyBool" dispName="$$99420$$YesNo" VarType="bool">True</Param>
<Expression>kbIsPlayerHuman(%Player%)==%MyBool%</Ex pression>
</Condition>

<Condition name="Player Exists In Game">
<Param name="Player" dispName="$$22301$$Player" VarType="player">1</Param>
<Param name="MyBool" dispName="$$99420$$YesNo" VarType="bool">True</Param>
<Expression>kbIsPlayerValid(%Player%)==%MyBool%</Ex pression>
</Condition>

<Condition name="Player Team">
<Param name="Player" dispName="$$22301$$Player" VarType="player">1</Param>
<Param name="Op" dispName="$$22297$$Operator" VarType="operator">==</Param>
<Param name="MyInt" dispName="$$99420$$Team" VarType="long">1</Param>
<Expression>kbGetPlayerTeam(%Player%) %Op% %MyInt%</Expression>
</Condition

I'm running out now. I was looking for a solution to one problem and went off on this trigger tangent. Now I need to get back to my previous problem which is still unsolved! Too bad the RMS & Triggers is a redheaded step child to the scenario editor...

Condition: Find unit with 1 HP
Effect: Teleport unit

This is what I have been trying to do, but I'm pretty bad at scripting triggers.

PS: Your RMS is very creative, I enjoyed it even though I didn't like every part of it.

I have run into a stumbling block and hopefully someone can answer it, but it might just be one more screw to the RMS. When I am attempting to pass in code through the RMS function rmSetTriggerConditionParam, I find that I need to pass in Quoted strings, such as a condition myVar<>"Zeus", but there is not way to pass a quote into the function!

rmSetTriggerConditionParam("MyString", "myVar<>"Zeus"", false)

has obvious problems with the quotes. Any suggestions or solutions? I'm looking to write the triggers by hand in the RMS and then create a scenario from that RMS. The method of injecting the code, while nifty, is not exactly user friendly. Doing it in a text editor first should really help that. But, if this is a screw for the RMS, then cut & paste it is...
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I guess I could make all the quotes a special char like ~, and then use AOMED to extract, search & replace the char, & put back in.

[This message has been edited by TwentyOneScore (edited 03-19-2003 @ 05:58 PM).]

FYI - I just transferred 170 lines of xs code, including global variables, user defined functions, and user defined rules from my VC file into a scenario generated version of my RMS using the xsUserCode effect. It works like a charm! Other than having to change all the double quotes after generation, and having to track a bug down a line at a time, it was easy. But once my RMS was in a scenario, there was no way to pick teams or civs. I haven't made scenarios so far- is that standard? or just for single play mode? (heading to FAQ...)

Quote:

rmSetTriggerConditionParam("MyString", "myVar<>\"Zeus\"", false)

Quote:

If not, you can generate random numbers using a reasonably simple algorithm, as long as you have a random "seed" number to start with (something like the current time in milliseconds at 3-4 seconds in the game could do, if the trigger that checks it has low priority and fires sort of randomly). Store this variable in an int seed.

You need the following global variables at the top:

int seed = 0;       // assign whatever to it later
 
int M = 233280;     // constants chosen from a book
int A = 9301;
int C = 4927;
 
float rand;         // the current random number

seed = (seed*A + C) % M;
rand = (seed*1.0)/(M*1.0);     // now rand stores the random number

Using a kbUnitGetCurrentHitpoints command, but it seems to want to work only for < "value". I also got some more tr commands that I'll check later for any use.

Oh, a way to detect HP could be done with kbUnitGetMaxHitpoints(or something similar, can't remember) then doing the percent damage thing X the number of hitpoints it has max.

[This message has been edited by Larmir (edited 03-20-2003 @ 04:12 PM).]

There are some kb functions that accept the player as input and these do not require the context be set - such as the ones I've used in the new conditions Player Civ, Player Culture, Player Human, etc...