hey, I'm trying to learn to script (yeah I completely forgot)

so uh, what is wrong with this script?

(Script dormant rebels
(sleep_until (volume_test_objects trigger1 (players ))1 )
(ai_place rebels_scripted ))

it won't work ingame and I tried consulting scripting tutorials but in all honesty nobody here knows how to make a tutorial that doesn't cause horrible damage to the average brain when trying to comprehend what the tutorial is saying.

So you want it to wait until you hit a trigger volume and then spawn some guys? The script in its current state would have to be woken before it even started waiting for you to hit the trigger volume, because it's set to "dormant." Set it to "startup" or put a command to wake it in a previous script.

I put startup, didn't work either

Try replacing your sleep_until command with this:

(sleep_until (= (volume_test_object trigger1 (unit (list_get (players) 0))) true))

Did you compile the scripts correctly?

Also check that your trigger volume is nice and wide so theres no chance the script will miss the player going through it (happened to me a lot in my early days)

Yes, be sure to do that as well.

(sleep_until (volume_test_objects (players)) 15)

That is the same on one line, so its not shorter at all lol

:P

Nor does it work. No trigger volume is specified in the volume_test_objects command. It does, however, remove the (= true) clause, which is perfectly fine. If the (= true) clause is omitted, the compiler automatically assumes that you're intending it to check for truth. The 15 can also be omitted; it merely represents how often the script checks for the condition.

(sleep_until (volume_test_objects TRIGGERVOLUME (players)))

The reason I told him to switch to the other one was just to be specifically sure that it wasn't causing any problems. And actually, I think it is a good idea to leave the 15 at the end, I cannot tell you how many times I've walked straight through a volume with nothing happening because it's too slow at detecting.

15 ticks would be half a second. If nothing is specified, it's instantaneous. The original Halo CE campaign doesn't specify any ticks.

No if nothing is specified, it checks once per second :P

Says it in the hs_doc.
Edited by The Cereal Killer on Apr 17, 2011 at 03:23 PM

So it does. My apologies.