DestroyTriggerInstance

[Stimo]

Hello, I have a few questions about DestroyTriggerInstance ( TriggerInstanceName , ID )

My own tests shown that this functions doesn't accept local nor global variables as TriggerInstanceName ( but it does handles them as ID ).

Do you agree with me or am I wrong ?

How many TriggerInstances can run at the same time ?

Can a TriggerInstance destroy itself ? I think it can, but I want to be sure...

[Arzok]

Can a TriggerInstance destroy itself ? I think it can, but I want to be sure...

Why ? "halt" command in a trigger is the same as "destroytriggerinstance itself" in this case ?

[Stimo]

I use a personnal mission system that launches many trigger instances.

Used one by one, units act as I want them to.

When my system works at full power and many triggers run at the same time, some units start acting on their own.

So I figure every running trigger weight something in the game engine and may slow it or work oddly.

A HALT just stops a trigger, it doesn't erase it from the mission script.

So it should be the same with a trigger INSTANCE, even after a HALT, it must be hidden somewhere in the memory, isn't it ?

So I want to get completely rid of useless trigger instances.

[Arzok]

I am surprising that it taks a lot of memory ?

It is very simple trigger.

The most important thing is probably the "delay" command inside each trigger.

If you use 10s of delay, it will not take a lot of CPU.

[Arzok]

Used one by one, units act as I want them to.

When I order a unit to move from A to B (by move, attack or storm).

If this unit sees an enemy, it will move toward this unit to fight.

It is a problem when you want to coordinate an attack by several side.

Have you solve this ?

[Stimo]

I already faced that problem. It may be linked to the one I'm talking about, but in my current mission, I have only set one army.

Sometimes, an unit just forgets it's order and stops.

Sometimes, it happens with members of a group. Some of them go on with the order I issued, some ignore it.

I'm trying to solve this by automatically re-issuing the order as long as it's not performed, but arrays make things difficult.

[Arzok]

I try this, and it seems to work quite well. But it is still too complicated

It is for a truck.

Every 15s, I send again the command.

And each time the truck reachs a rectangle of the array, I send the new move command for the next rectangle of the array.

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set @i1 = 0

set @unit = 404

set @array = "Array01"

set @rect2 = "Rect_3"

set @long = ArrayLen ( @array )

sub ( @long , 1 )

set @compteur = 0

setworkarmy ( army , 3 )

label boucle

delay ( 1500 )

add ( @compteur , 1 )

if @compteur > 10 then

set @compteur = 0

endif

set @rect = ArrayGetElementName ( @array , @i1 )

set @a = GetNUnitsInArea ( unit , @unit , car , @rect )

if @a > 0 then

add ( @i1 , 1 )

set @rect2 = ArrayGetElementName ( @array , @i1 )

runcommand ( unit , @unit , move , rect , @rect2 )

endif

if ( @@depart_camion > 0 and @compteur = 5 ) then

runcommand ( unit , @unit , move , rect , @rect )

endif

set @a = GetNUnits ( group , "convoi01" , car )

if a = 0 then

halt

endif

goto boucle

[Stimo]

Very clever. Can I try to adapt your script to my system ?

[Arzok]

Of course !

I tried twice to use array.

First time, it was with tanks and with an array of points. No problem, except if a tank is destroyed on a point, it blocks the following tanks.

So second time, I tried with rectangle and trucks (to simulate a convoy).

And I discover that sometime, the trucks forget the order and switch to "defend" order.

[kahlaen]

Hi there, sorry to bother you, but i'm just wondering if this is the Stimo I know from Starwars Galaxies??