http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAgqi72kRa0

Now you get to hear how much of a nerd I sound like.


Oh well. Worth it.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Aug 19 2009, 5:40 pm by Tuxedo-Templar.

Thanks, Tux!
Will there be a second video out anytime soon?

Hopefully tomorrow or in a few days or so, yeah.

Can I use array and variables together?

ARRAY anumber = { "a4", "a5", "a6", "a7", "a8", "a9", "a10" }
FOR n = 3 TO 9 BY +1 DO

I then did @L(anumber[n-2]), but then it never worked.

I know this has been answered "yes", but I couldn't get this to work

If you haven't specified full path in the script on highlighted parameters

java -jar "<full path to mtrigsc.jar>" "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)" "$(NAME_PART).trigger" "$(NAME_PART).property"

then these files will be created in the current directory. A good question what a current directory in Notepad++ is. As far as I remember in Notepad++ current directory is the directory of the last opened file. That why you have to paste the next string in the script before the one which starts with "java -jar ...":

cd "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)"

This is setting up the current directory to the directory of the .mtrigger file which is being compiled at the moment.

Ugh, and yes this is my fault I haven't updated the code for the script on the title page (I'll do that in a moment), present my apologies.

You should write

FOR n=1 TO 10 DO
   ...
   RemoveUnitsAt(@All, v3, @AllPlayers, @L("a"+n)
   ...
ENDL

The symbol '^' is used to calculate degree of the first operand in integer expressions.

Could you please provide text of the RandomDefense2.mtrigger file?

Yes you can, but you should write like

FOR n = 3 TO 9 DO
   ...
      @L(anumber[n-3])
   ...
ENDL

because array elements are 0-based (anumber[0] is the first element "a4").

Also you don't need '+' before the step and moreover you don't need to specify step 1, because 1 is the default value. If you want to count down you should specify negative step though. Like

FOR n = 9 TO 3 BY -1 DO ... ENDL

I express mine huge thanks to Tuxlar for his super-sexy-awesome installation video tutorial!

Updated the head post:
- Included the video tutorial into the installation part of the head post.
- Updated the script to Run the compiler from Notepad++ (should have done long-long ago...).
- Revised the head post a little, combining parts of text into collapse boxes.

Thank you very much, Wormer. I got that to work!

But then I got to the next action, "CreateUnitWithProperties" OR "CreateUnit". I followed the helper:
CreateUnitWithProperties(1, v4, @L("SA1"), @CurrentPlayer, 1)
Num, Unit, Location, Player, Properties

This error pops up:

<my path>\RandomDefense3.mtrigger:line 22:3: type mismatch

Neat. Glad you liked it.

If you have any annotations you want me to add, let me know. I'm not sure if the link I sent you lets you edit annotations yourself or not.

This is because when you use CreateUnitWithProperties action you have to specify properties variable as it's last parameter. Properties variable is defined like this:

PROPERTY prop 
   HITPOINTS = 99 // you can use expressions here
   ENERGY = 77 
   SHIELDS = 66 
   RESOURCES = 55555
   HANGAR = 8
   INVINCIBLE
   BURROWED
   LIFTED
   HALLUCINATED 
   CLOACKED
ENDP

There you specify flags which should be toggled on and don't specify flags which are toggled off.
Then you specify property prop as the CUWP action last parameter:

CreateUnitWithProperties(1, v4, @L("SA1"), @CurrentPlayer, 1, prop)

And, please, don't forget to copy/paste your .properties file into SCMD text editor every time you change properties variables!

Got it!

One last question..

Do these (//-----------------------------------------------------------------//) matter at all?

No.

Anything after any '//' in a line of code is ignored by the compiler. Useful for adding comments, separators, and other aesthetic-only elements.

There is an exception, though. Anything between a '// >' and '// <' pair is placed into a collapsible block. Useful for organizing large groups of triggers.


Go ahead and try it!

Thanks, both of you

Maybe I should avoid asking another question, but I just can't

After opening the ScmDraft Trigger Editor, I pressed the "CHECK" without pasting anything on to it.
By doing so, a Debug error pops up, saying some of the lines had errors.
This made me not able to save what I will be pasting on to it.
How can I fix this?

Ignore those errors. As long as it doesn't mention anything specific (like a line number with something it can't read), those are misleading.

It has specific line numbers like line 754: Started
Also, it says line 6: switch expected

It won't save after I press the check, I don't see them in the classic trigger list

Oh well that IS an error. Try to find out what's wrong at line 6, first.

I don't see any specific errors.
Some of my old switches has "Switch1" without spaces in between, and my new ones has spaces. That doesn't affect anyting does it?
Other than that, it shouldn't be telling me there are errors >:/..

Actually, when I made a new map to try ( you know they have these preset triggers? ), it also says there are errors, when there shouldn't even be one tiny spec of errors.

Funny thing, it says there is an error even though there are NO triggers O.o

Switches names should go close to digits (with no spaces), like "Switch7", "Switch58".

I believe that won't affect it (the spacing part) because after compiling, the switch and the number has spaces in them.
I also think that my ScmD is bugged because it says there are errors even when there are no triggers in there.