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Nevermind, finally figured out that custom script can't have events.. great

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Nevermind, finally figured out that custom script can't have events.. great

Well, that's flat out wrong.

Quote:

TriggerAddEventMapInit(gt_MeleeInitialization);

executes the event. Sort of. It tells the game to call that function when map initialization happens.

I guess you've copied that from the Custom Script View and then deleted the GUI trigger resembling that. In this case you have to watch out for two things.

First, the GUI trigger automatically creates a trigger variable (it should be somewhat at the top of the custom script) which you have to copy too:

trigger gtMeleeInit; //Declare a new trigger

bool gt_MeleeInitialization_Func (bool testConds, bool runActions) {
    // Actions
    if (!runActions) {
        return true;
    }

    UIDisplayMessage(PlayerGroupAll(), c_messageAreaSubtitle, StringExternal("Param/Value/D5973442"));
    return true;
}

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
void gt_MeleeInitialization_Init () {
    //Here you have to insert the trigger variable. The name that was there before is the name of the automatically
    //generated trigger variable, which got deleted after you deleted the GUI trigger.
    gtMeleeInit = TriggerCreate("gt_MeleeInitialization_Func");
    TriggerAddEventMapInit(gtMeleeInit); //Also gotta add it here, to add the map init event to the right trigger.
}

A second way to create the trigger is to make it local. You can use this if you know that you won't have to disable/enable/destroy the trigger externally anymore.

void gt_MeleeInitialization_Init () {
    //Same idea like before, but instead of using a global variable we just make a local one.
    trigger t;
    t = TriggerCreate("gt_MeleeInitialization_Func");
    TriggerAddEventMapInit(t);
}

And then there is a second thing to watch out for. gt_MeleeInitialization_Init() creates the trigger. So as long as this function doesn't execute, the trigger will not work. So you have to execute this function at map init.
How to do that? You can use the initializer. Every Custom Script has a small frame at the bottom which says Initializer Function. If you write the name of a function there it'll be automatically executed at map start, even before Map Initialization triggers are run. Just paste "gt_MeleeInitialization_Init" into this line and it should work (I don't think you need the brackets).

One limitation though - initializer functions must not contain any Waits or similar things. So don't use them as a substitution for a Map Init trigger.

PS: Custom Scripts can not only have events, but with it you can use events even better than with GUI. In Custom Script you can add new events to a trigger whenever you like, whereas GUI triggers must have all their events declared from the beginning on.

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