Using a trigger to exit and load a new mission

#1 Now that more people are around maybe I'll get an answer :)

#2 You might run into trouble changing the mission from within the trigger callback because changing the mission will delete the trigger object. You should schedule a loadMission call and few ms in the future. You should be able to schedule loadMission() directly. You don't need any new functions or client-server commands, unless I'm misunderstanding what your trying to do.

#3 Seems reasonable, only other issue is to get everything to freeze. I wonder if there's a "freeze everything while I load this mission" function.

Hehe.. all fun!

Phil.

#4 Thanks for the help. I had planned on a screen effect to hide the transition. I figured loadmission() would not need any changes. And Tim's suggestion to use a delay to load a new mission makes a lot of sense.

I just want to make sure I close down the old mission properly. So, I was looking for a way to cleanly close the old mission. Mission closure now goes through a messagebox which brings up a dialog box. I want to eliminate the dialog box and transition to a new mission thru scripts only if I can. The reason for doing it this way is both for my game which may have several such transitions and to turn this into a tutorial that can be used by everybody - i.e. no code changes.

#5 How would the loadMission() call be "triggered"?

#6 *bump*

#7 I got parts of this from fi Developer's webparser code and the GG clientConnection code as a starting point. I could not get the disconnect() to work properly in the local connect but it does work in the remote connect.

What I have below works perfectly for either local or remote connections.

One thing I'm not sure of is whether resources are being released properly (i.e., I've come across missionCleanup code in some scripts). I think endGame does it but I'm not yet sure.

if((includedInString("localhost", %cleanurl)) || 
   (includedInString("127.0.0.1", %cleanurl)))     
{
   $mission = nextToken(%cleanurl, %url, "@");
   echo("---->mission = " @ $mission);
   // The server isn't started unless a mission has been specified.  This section handles local connections.
   if ($mission !$= "") 
   {
	endGame();
	$Game::Schedule = schedule($Game::EndGamePause * 0, 0, "onLocalGameEnd"); 
   }
   else
   {
   	echo("No mission specified (use -mission filename)");
   }
}
else
{
   //%password = nextToken(%cleanurl, server, "@");
   //This section handles remote connection with no password
   schedule(0,0, "Disconnect"); 
   connect(%cleanurl, $Client::Password, $pref::Player::Name);
}

I'm passing the url via a trigger (in server/scripts/triggers.cs) that sends the trigger data to a client command (in client/scripts/triggerClient.cs) which in turn calls the function above:

function clientCmdfireTarget(%trigger)