Dialogue Box Help

03-30-2010, 04:58 AM

Ok so I have this trigger and its working fine except for the replacement of the unit after a selection in the dialogue box has been made. When I select swordsman it does not replace my current unit with the uther (swordsman unit) at all.

Trigger:

Profession

Events

Unit - A unit enters Profession <gen>

Conditions

(Owner of (Entering unit)) Not equal to Player 12 (Brown)

Actions

Game - Pause the game

Cinematic - Turn cinematic mode On for (All players)

Camera - Pan camera for (Picked player) to (Position of Captain Gene 0037 <gen>) over 0.00 seconds

Cinematic - Send transmission to (All players) from Captain Gene 0037 <gen> named Captain Gene: Play No sound and display Greetings soldiers!.... Modify duration: Add 10.00 seconds and Wait

Cinematic - Turn cinematic mode Off for (All players)

Game - Unpause the game

Player Group - Pick every player in Soldiers and do (Actions)

Loop - Actions

Dialog - Create a dialog button for Profession labelled Swordsman

Set Swordsman = (Last created dialog Button)

Dialog - Show Profession for (Picked player)

Trigger - Destroy (This trigger)

Trigger:

Profession Picks

Events

Dialog - A dialog button is clicked for Profession

Conditions

(Clicked dialog button) Equal to Swordsman

Actions

Unit - Replace Player_1 with a Uther using The new unit's max life and mana

Game - Display to (All players) the text: ((Name of (Owner of Player_1)) + has selected a Swordsman!)

Dialog - Hide Profession for Player 1 (Red)

03-30-2010, 05:23 AM	#2
TheKid	Does "Game - Display to (All players)..." display the correct output?

03-30-2010, 05:26 AM

BuRnInSpartan

ah ok i did it in the beginning

Trigger:

Identify

Events

Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing (Name of Player 1 (Red)) as An exact match

Conditions

Actions

Unit - Create 1 Soldier for Player 1 (Red) at (Center of Start <gen>) facing Default building facing (270.0) degrees

Set Player_1 = (Last created unit)

Unit Group - Add Player_1 to SoldiersGroup

Game - Display to (All players) the text: ((Name of (Owner of Player_1)) + reporting for duty!)

Special Effect - Create a special effect at (Position of Player_1) using Abilities\Spells\Items\TomeOfRetraining\TomeOfRetrainingCaster.mdl

Wait 2.00 seconds

Special Effect - Destroy (Last created special effect)

03-30-2010, 05:31 AM	#4
BuRnInSpartan	no it doesn't say anything either. anyone else have any ideas?

04-01-2010, 01:32 AM	#5
BuRnInSpartan	anyone?

04-01-2010, 05:05 AM

TheKid

Does it say anything if you put the message at the very beginning of the trigger? If not then your trigger is disabled or not running for some reason. If so then the thread is being stopped at a point between where the game message will display and where it won't.

Put game messages after every line, and take note of the ones that are displayed and which ones aren't. If one of them doesn't run, then the rest won't (because the thread is killed) in which case there is a problem is something you are doing.

Put those messages and share your results on where the game message stops working.

04-04-2010, 10:05 PM	#7
BuRnInSpartan	yea it doesn't say anything. it closes the dialogue box but doesn't say game message or replace the hero.

04-05-2010, 04:57 AM	#8
TheKid	Where do you set up your dialog box?

04-07-2010, 08:46 PM	#9
BuRnInSpartan	my box is set up in my first post. in that trigger.

04-09-2010, 05:19 AM	#10
[VDM]Amn	man, wait a sec. i've never tried to trigger-replace a unit before but arent you trying to replace a simple unit with a Hero ? that may be the problem if not, just remove the unit and create your Uther guy there and that's it just try not to get stuck in small things like this later

04-09-2010, 05:35 AM

#11

Ammorth

Your problem is the "Player Group - Pick every player in Soldiers and do (Actions) " part. Change it to this:

Trigger:

Profession

Events

Unit - A unit enters Profession <gen>

Conditions

(Owner of (Entering unit)) Not equal to Player 12 (Brown)

Actions

Game - Pause the game

Cinematic - Turn cinematic mode On for (All players)

Camera - Pan camera for (Picked player) to (Position of Captain Gene 0037 <gen>) over 0.00 seconds

Cinematic - Send transmission to (All players) from Captain Gene 0037 <gen> named Captain Gene: Play No sound and display Greetings soldiers!.... Modify duration: Add 10.00 seconds and Wait

Cinematic - Turn cinematic mode Off for (All players)

Game - Unpause the game

Dialog - Create a dialog button for Profession labelled Swordsman

Set Swordsman = (Last created dialog Button)

Player Group - Pick every player in Soldiers and do (Actions)

Loop - Actions

Dialog - Show Profession for (Picked player)

Trigger - Destroy (This trigger)

what you were doing was creating as many buttons as soldiers, and changing your Swordsman variable. Therefor when your button trigger fired, the variable was not equal to the button.

Replace unit in GUI removes the old unit and creates a new unit based on the position and health/mana of the old unit. There is nothing stopping it from replacing heros with units or units with heros.

04-09-2010, 06:14 AM

#12

[VDM]Amn

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ammorth

Therefor when your button trigger fired, the variable was not equal to the button

it cant be, he says the Dialog hides, and the Hide Action is in the trigger

04-09-2010, 10:49 AM	#13
Won-Qu	Trigger: Set Soldiers =... You've got this somewhere? Or maybe: Trigger: Player Group - Add Player X to Soldiers

04-09-2010, 03:00 PM

#14

Ammorth

Quote:

Originally Posted by [VDM]Amn

it cant be, he says the Dialog hides, and the Hide Action is in the trigger

Dialogs hide when they are clicked. This is a native feature.