Question of automatically creating large numbers of triggers

I have 1,380 fairly linear triggers I need to implement, and I'm wondering if there's a program or way to generate these automatically so I don't spend 10+ hours (or more) doing this. I have only used the "Classic Map Triggers" editor in SCM Draft.

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This is in relation to my last post, and the situation is this: P1, P2, and P3 (Team Warm) are all on a team against P4, p5, and P6 (Team Cool). Each player controls 1 zergling throughout the game. For each player on Team Warm, I would like to track which player's zergling from Team Cool is in closest proximity to that Team Warm player's zergling. I would also like to do this for Team Cool to Team Warm.

So, I have created 10 locations for each player that center on that player's zergling. They are organized like this:


For each location 10, 9, 8, etc. there are 23 possibilities of who is closest. This is because if P4 and P5 are both in location "10" and P6 is nowhere to be found, then I randomize two switches for the game to determine who is closest between P4 and P5. So half of the time P4 will be set as the closest and half of time P5 will be (if they are both equally close). The same holds true for combinations P4 and P6; P5 and P6; and P4, P5, and P6 all being equally close.

Here's an example of some of the triggers: (a note on my organization: i use "DC" to stand for Death Counter)












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And so on and so on. I think you get the idea.

In total it takes 23 triggers for each location 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5....etc. for a total of 230 per player. Times this by 6 players and I have 1,380 triggers and a lot of monotonous work using "Classic Map Triggers". I've heard of programs that can auto generate triggers and I thought this would be a perfect time. The triggers are pretty straight forward and predictable/programable I think.

So can anyone help me? Is there a way to do this without spending hours of my life?

Thanks a lot guys, and thanks for all your help so far

http://www.staredit.net/sc1db/file/2989/ ... if you like lua
http://www.staredit.net/sc1db/file/383/ ... if you like a quick and simple tool from the olden days
http://www.staredit.net/topic/17244/ ... if you like python
http://www.staredit.net/topic/15156/ ... if you like sweets php
http://www.staredit.net/topic/17289/ ... if you need even more abstraction
http://www.staredit.net/topic/16432/ ... if you like lua, chkdraft AND programming languages
http://www.staredit.net/topic/2970/ ... if you like java
http://www.staredit.net/topic/9581/ ... if you like to code with style

I have no programming/coding experience or knowledge, so I'm guessing this is the best one?
---> http://www.staredit.net/sc1db/file/383/ .

Eh never mind I get a runtime error: http://www.staredit.net/sc1db/file/383/

Thanks for the help Nude but these are all too complicated for me to use...

Guess I'll just have to suck it up and spend the hours inputting them manually haha

There's always excel/calc. Easy to use, but a bit unwieldy when you need it to create multiple lines of text. Maybe use that for the number generation, and replace the text that's always the same with letters and use farlap to add it in later.

Then again, TrigEditPlus (1st link) seems easy enough to learn, judging from the example.

If you're not using custom score, I think I have a very simplified alternative for you to try out.





and so on...



In that specific order. Copy the triggers and change the locations & death counters to cover the other 2 opponents, and then ditto for the other team. The player with 1 "P1 Target Me" = the one that will be targeted by Player 1. I haven't tested it myself, but I think it should work, and I believe the way the triggers are made and ordered, it will be inherently randomized.

Let me know what you think or how it works out for you.

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Oct 2 2017, 10:20 pm by DarkenedFantasies.

Would you mind explaining to me exactly what is going on here? I don't quite understand how it works

When someone from Team Cool brings their Zergling to one of Player 1's centered locations, their 'score' is modified accordingly; increasing their score as they enter the smaller locations towards Player 1 or decreasing it as they leave them, through the very first trigger.

The player with the highest score is the one that is nearest to Player 1, so they will be targeted by Player 1 by giving them 1 death count value to use as a flag for P1's targeting triggers.

"Highest score" condition is tied with multiple players having the same score, so depending on when Player 1 attacks, the targeting will be randomized through P4-6 constantly setting their allies DC to 0 and their own to 1, for as long as they are tied with each other in their proximity to P1.

Duplicate these triggers for Team Cool to cover Player 2 and 3, and then repeat the process for Team Warm.

I will edit my previous post to caption the trigger blocks, saying which does what...

Thanks man I appreciate that!

And woah that's a pretty nifty trick regarding scores. How did you ever discover this?

Well it's not really a discovery... it's simply using the score system in the same fashion as death counters, taking advantage of the "highest score" condition that is sitting in plain sight. It's just that since I'm a lazy bastard, and having a pretty much neurotic obsession with being as efficient as possible, I like to put a lot of effort into thinking how to do triggers in the most "cost-effective" way I can.