how do you make a trigger so when you step or cross it something happens? like i want to make a trigger and infection forms come out behind the rocks. how do you do that?

Place a trigger volume (I'm assuming you know how). Then add the AI, set them to not initially created. Create a script

(sleep_until (volume_test_objects [trigger_volume name] (players))15)
(ai_place [ai_name])
(ai_command_list [ai_name] [command list for flood to come out])

Remember to make it a dormant, or a startup script.

hey gamma. yeah ahh, i dont know how to place a trigger volume. does it take long?

ohh no. never mind i just figured it out. lol.

how do you create a script?
Edited by bg1 on Feb 7, 2009 at 02:27 AM

make a hsc file, and place it in your data folder with identical dir sctructure, then compile it through tool to implent it. triggers are enabled with trigger zones placed in sapien, name then to refer the script to it.
there are more possabilites but i'm too lazy to look through all of them

What? Its obvious that he wouldn't understand any of that, because I did not, either.

Start a new notepad file. Type in whatever you want. The script should look like this:

(script startup spawntheevilflood
(sleep_until (volume_test_objects [trigger_volume name] (players))15)
(ai_place [ai_name])
)

It will sleep the script until the player walks into the specified trigger, and spawn the flood AI. So if you nameed your AI encounter 'flood' and your trigger 'tvol', the script would look like:

(script startup spawntheevilflood
(sleep_until (volume_test_objects tvol (players))15)
(ai_place flood)
)

There are many more stuff (e.g music and objectives) you can script with triggers.

Once that's done, use notepad, and 'save as'. DO NOT SAVE IT AS A .TXT

Save it as an 'all files', and add a .hsc at the end of the file name. Save it to Halo Custom Edition\Data\levels\mapname\scripts

Sorry if you didn't understand it. I was in a rush.

No. I was talking about BeachParty clan's post

ok i got it thanks. ohh and how do you get rid of the script if you compiled it already in the scenario?

one more thing. how do you make more than one ai awake using one trigger?

like if i go pass a trigger, then elites, and flood appear. how would i do that?
Edited by bg1 on Feb 7, 2009 at 11:48 PM

Delete it, and compile the scripts again.

To spawn more than one AI encounter:

(script startup spawntheevilflood
(sleep_until (volume_test_objects tvol (players))15)
(ai_place flood)
(ai_place covvies)
)

ok do you know where to find a whole bunch of scripts. for me to memorize or/and use to create the scripts.

wait it wont work. the scenario is not compiling to a map. it says data-cache-file. i mean failed to load data-cache-file like 4 times. what is wrong?
Edited by bg1 on Feb 8, 2009 at 12:56 AM

ohh. i fix my problem. i put the script in the wrong area. but when i compile it in sapien. it tells me: this left parenthsis is unmatched.: (script startup spawnelites

what did i do?

here is what i typed in.

(script startup spawntheevilflood
(sleep_until (volume_test_object tvol
(players))15)
(ai_place elites)
)


i named it tvol cause it was simple to remember.
Edited by bg1 on Feb 8, 2009 at 01:44 AM

What? You script name would be spawnelites, but yet you say the script name is spawntheevilflood. Which one is it? Do you have 2 separate scripts?

Make sure that for every "(" starting parenthesis there is an ")" ending parenthesis.

I wonder if one could make scripts in, say, visual basic, just so it would highlight all the starting and ending parenthesis. I'll bet Bungie has their own script maker that does that and makes things different colors and stuff like for programming.

You didn't add (players) to the trigger volume. Make it look like:

(sleep_until (volume_test_objects tvol (players))15)

i thought i added the players. polamee i messed up on the writing. i meant to use the flood. not the elites. sorry for the confusion.

you stuffed up the (volume_test_object part its supposed to be (volume_test_objects (you forgot to add a s at the end of object. And i understanded what BP said...just took me a couple hours or so to get it =P... [bad joke]
Edited by sierra117 on Feb 10, 2009 at 01:43 AM

oh thats what was the problem. duh. :p