Regarding timer triggers and property triggers

[Horst18519]

Another thing concerning triggers.

As Paul stated very nicely in the document about mission building, there are very nice things you can do with counter triggers. Did you know that you actually can add negative values to it? No, it won't go below 0, but you can add and subtract as much as you want.
Another thing seems to happen too: if the trigger fires it seems to be reset to "0". Has anyone experienced the same thing? Just want to be sure about it.


And one more discussion:

You can use a Property trigger to check to see if another trigger is “latched.” This is useful in cases where you want to give the user an award after they’ve completed one or multiple parts of a mission.

Was anyone yet able to setup a property trigger that checks the state of another trigger? I wasn't successful yet.

 

[Horst18519]

And one more problem:

I was trying to setup a property trigger for an AI aircraft. It should check if the aircraft is below 500f AGL.

There is of course this issue that if you select the AI instead of "user", click OK and go back to the properties, the selection is "user" again.
But if you don't go back and check the settings in the left window, the LHS is actually referenced to the AI.

But the trigger doesn't work. It simply happens nothing.

Did anyone play with that yet?

By the way: The SDK states that it should be able to use an AI instead of the user. But after checking the default samples I found that they never used this option. Maybe because it's not working? ...

 

[BASys]

Hi Folks

Was anyone yet able to setup a property trigger that checks the state of another trigger? I wasn't successful yet.

Thorsten -
I tried this earlier, and it works nicely.

Do you require code ?

HTH
ATB
Paul

 

[Horst18519]

That would be very kind, Paul.

Did you do it in the OPT or by hand?

 

[BASys]

Hi Folks

Thorsten -
My apologies,
I'd have included the code in my post, but it was late.

Since had a major unrelated problem,
so didn't get the code extracted & reworked till now.

This code was manually created,
as I didn't know how to generate it in the OPT.

A timer activates the first dialog.

A second timer activates the property trigger
which checks for the first timer's SimMission.Latched state.

If fired, a second dialog is activated.

        <SimMission.DialogAction InstanceId="{D3BDAB41-B690-499F-B63D-1ECDAB56C1AA}">
            <Descr>_Init_TTIMER_S5_DIALOG_AD_Start</Descr>
            <Text>
Start - 
Timer activated dialog
</Text>
            <SoundFileName>Windows XP Logon Sound.wav</SoundFileName>
        </SimMission.DialogAction>


        <SimMission.DialogAction InstanceId="{7808D1CE-FFDB-4727-A05E-093DB452DB0C}">
            <Descr>_Init_TTIMER_S5_State_Latched_Test_DIALOG_AD_TaDa</Descr>
            <Text>
TaDa - 
Result of Timer SimMission.Latched activated dialog
</Text>
            <SoundFileName>TaDa.wav</SoundFileName>
        </SimMission.DialogAction>



        <SimMission.ObjectActivationAction InstanceId="{35CE0E66-F666-4E9C-8CCD-929C54BCE3C7}">
            <Descr>Check_Trigger_Latched_TPROP_AA_On</Descr>
            <ObjectReferenceList>
                <ObjectReference id="_Init_TTIMER_S5_State_Latched_Test_DIALOG_AD_TaDa" InstanceId="{501830EF-64BE-455E-813E-849BE93FD9F0}">
                </ObjectReference>
            </ObjectReferenceList>
        </SimMission.ObjectActivationAction>



        <SimMission.PropertyTrigger InstanceId="{501830EF-64BE-455E-813E-849BE93FD9F0}">
            <Descr>Test_Trigger_State_Latched_TPROP</Descr>
            <Activated>False</Activated>
            <Condition>
                <And>
                    <Equal>
                        <LHS>
                            <Property>
                                <Name>SimMission.Latched</Name>
                                <ObjectReference id="Init_TTIMER_S5" InstanceId="{DBE3913D-7B7C-45FE-A62B-54588F875D76}">
                                </ObjectReference>
                            </Property>
                        </LHS>
                        <RHS>
                            <Constant>
                                <Bool>True</Bool>
                            </Constant>
                        </RHS>
                    </Equal>
                </And>
            </Condition>
            <Actions>
                <ObjectReference id="_Init_TTIMER_S5_DIALOG_AD_Start" InstanceId="{7808D1CE-FFDB-4727-A05E-093DB452DB0C}">
                </ObjectReference>
            </Actions>
        </SimMission.PropertyTrigger>


        <SimMission.TimerTrigger InstanceId="{0819441F-C161-4659-B615-8F20985DA660}">
            <Descr>Init_TTIMER_S10</Descr>
            <StopTime>10.000</StopTime>
            <Actions>
                <ObjectReference id="Test_Trigger_State_Latched_TPROP_AA_On" InstanceId="{35CE0E66-F666-4E9C-8CCD-929C54BCE3C7}">
                </ObjectReference>
            </Actions>
        </SimMission.TimerTrigger>


        <SimMission.TimerTrigger InstanceId="{DBE3913D-7B7C-45FE-A62B-54588F875D76}">
            <Descr>Init_TTIMER_S5</Descr>
            <StopTime>5.000</StopTime>
            <Actions>
                <ObjectReference id="_Init_TTIMER_S5_DIALOG_AD_Start" InstanceId="{D3BDAB41-B690-499F-B63D-1ECDAB56C1AA}">
                </ObjectReference>
            </Actions>
        </SimMission.TimerTrigger>

HTH
ATB
Paul

 

[Horst18519]

That is very cool! Thanks a lot for that, Paul! I'll be testing this as soon as possible - looks like you could do interesting things with that.