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Reusing a prox trigger/area multiple times ?

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This is the scenerio....

You have an area and prox trigger defined for a parking area at an airport. You define things prior to taxiing etc.

But, after the flight you want to return to the same parking area and trigger a new set of conditions in the same area.

What is the best way to do that ?

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The only thing you can use more than once is the area.
Of course you could set the proxtrigger oneshot-option to "false", but how should the trigger know in which state of the mission you are?
So you'll have to use two or more proxtriggers on this area.
If you start in the area and the trigger should fire when you leave it, be sure to set oneshot to "false" and deactivate it on exit action.
Then activate the prox trigger for the arrival with maybe the landing trigger.

In my first missions I spent a lot of time thinking about how I could use triggers more than once.
Then I figured that in the end it's much faster and easier to just use one trigger for every new action - let alone the better overview over the mission's logical structure.

To see if triggers fire the way they're supposed to I always assign a (dummy) dialog action, so that a text message pops up everytime a trigger fires.
 
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Excellent reply Thorsten.

Yes ... it is much easier to just add a second Proximity Trigger that is inactive at the beginning of the game, but gets activated during the mission, so that when you taxi back over to the parking spot, the "parking Proximity Trigger" is activated and awaiting your entry into the Area.

I do this all the time with helicopter LZ's where I want to trigger different dialog depending on whether this is the first, or a subsequent landing in that zone.
 
By the way: there may be situations when a trigger should fire more than once. For example a trigger that says "better stay below 2000f" or "don't taxi too fast!" In that case it may be a good idea to use a random action together with several variations of the same dialog like

"hey, please don't taxi so fast!"
"hmm, I think with that taxispeed we'll get some troubles"
"Wow, do you wanna take off on the taxyway?"
"Come on now, I said not faster than 30kts!"

This would be much more fun to the user than just "slow down!" 5 times in a row. :)
 
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