Alternate Wait Function for Multiplayer

Let me know what you think of this. I posted it under the Map Creation forum in that thread on uhh, don't remember, but then I discovered this section. Much more appropriate to go here methinks. Anyway, where there is a 'sic' I may have the wrong function name. Sorry! You get the idea.

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function Wait takes real duration returns nothing
local timer WaitTimer

set WaitTimer = CreateTimer()
call TimerStart( WaitTimer, duration, false, null) // sic

loop
exitwhen TimerGetRemaining( WaitTimer) <= 0.0 // sic
call TriggerSleepAction(0.01)
endloop

call DestroyTimer( WaitTimer)
endfunction

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Alternately you could use GetElapsedTime (WaitTimer) >= duration to exitwhen instead.

Anyway, this avoids the hassle of counting (and keeping count) of players and issuing a wait per, and seems much more reliable.

Let me know what you think!

EDIT: Think I got the right func names now. Thanks Slow Smurf!

Care.

I was just about to post a link to that post. This should really help out a lot of people. Slap this into a separate trigger and just call that trigger whenever you need a multiplayer wait. Good Job! :D

Was GoldenUrg ever able to make this into a GUI function?

Care.

wow i never thought of that lol
i thought waiting wasn't possible in mp =P

Well, instead of doing custom text, there are two other ways. (These work on b.net)

1.Make a trigger for each wait, and have the wait be at the beginning of the trigger
Note for 1: This does make it take twice as long. It's really annoying
2.Make it wait the time for each player. Do this action
For every integer a, 1 - number of players, do wait (integer a) X 2.
Note: Not sure if this works. If it does, C&P will be ur best friend.

A simple way to do this is replacing the "wait X seconds" action by:

For integer A = 1 to MaxNoOfPlayersAllowedInTheGame do (if player slot of player (integer A) is NOT equal to playing then do wait X seconds)

A problem is that it also count if the player slot is "computer" instead of "open" or "closed". Otherwise it works fine in multiplayer as well as single player.

You can, but its very annoying. You'd have to ad dblizzard.j to your map to make a new gui function.

Get this:
W3M Quick Utilities - It fixes the wait but in the map you tell it to. Note that when you use this program, use NORMAL WAITs, not pick every player and wait.

I use the "Create timer for x seconds", then create a new trigger to continue that trigger with the event "Countdown timer Y expires" its all very tedious and fills your map with junk, but it works.