popup.txt

[Big Al]

Why isnt this working? If Japs DOW on USA AND are near hawaii at same time...

; Pearl Harbor:

; Images - US National Archives (Public Domain)

{

#NAME= Pearl Harbor

#POPUP= Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

#IMAGE= pearl_harbour_3.bmp

#SOUND= pearl_harbour.wav

#FLAG= 1

#TYPE= 0

#AI= 0

#GV= 1[1,100]

#LINK= 0[0]

#LEVEL= 0

#COUNTRY_ID= 3

#TRIGGER= 100

#DISPLAY_ORDER= 0

#DATE= 1939/01/01

; USA is allied

#VARIABLE_CONDITION= 3 [2] [100] [0]

; Hawaii - Japs within 7 hexes of Hawaii

#CONDITION_POSITION= 99,22 [0,7] [1,50] [1] [2]

}

[Moonslayer]

Change the last bit to:

#CONDITION_POSITION= 99,22 [7,7] [1,1] [1] [2]

Should work fine then. What you currently have is the computer randomly looking for between 1 and 50 Jap units between 0 and 7 tiles away. E.g. on one turn it might want 50 units on hawaii and the next it needs 27 units within 3 tiles etc. By limiting range to [7,7] means that the computer will always be checking all tiles within 7 of hawaii and [1,1] means that only 1 enemy (minimum) is needed to set off this event. I'd also change the #DATE to something that falls after 1947 as iirc this is a failsafe date rather than something that needs to be satisfied.

I hope this is all understandable as it is still early here

[Hubert Cater]

One correction, the #DATE for POPUP events is actually not a failsafe date like it is for the UNIT scripts. Also I would check that your position 99,22 refers to the appropriate start tile. For example, if you want to check for naval units within 7 tiles make sure 99,22 is a sea tile like a port etc.

[Big Al]

thats explains a lot. when you put 1,7 it randoms checks 1 to 7 instead of between 1 and 7.

[Nupremal]

Yes - the random thing threw me off too - I think, personally, that it is a ludicrous way to do it. Perhaps allow for an "R" command if you want that, but Hubert did it that way to add some variability - so its not certain if something gets triggered or not. So, it could be useful.

[Moonslayer]

One correction, the #DATE for POPUP events is actually not a failsafe date like it is for the UNIT scripts.

Cheers, HC, I wasn't 100% sure with the popups. Thanks for the clarification