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Triggers not working correctly

by Jason Burch · in Torque Game Engine · 10/24/2007 (7:10 am) · 3 replies

I'm using a basic trigger and I'm trying to do some stuff depending on what team the client is on.

So I'm using the following code

echo ("Team           :::  " @ %obj.client.team.teamId);

when I enter the trigger it only shows


Team :::

When I get the value for the %obj ID it isn't the same as the client id

any help is great
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Torque 3D Owner mb
#1
10/24/2007 (7:46 am)
It depends which function you are using.


onEnterTrigger & onLeaveTrigger

%obj.client.team.teamID will equal a number (if your using the team implimentation resource).


onTickTrigger & onTriggerTick

Here I loop through all the clients then check which team they are on.


for(%x=0; %x < %trigger.getNumObjects(); %x++) 
{
//  Set %obj to be the current object that is being used in the for loop.
%obj = %trigger.getObject(%x); 

if (%obj.getState() $= "Dead")
{
return;
}
else
{
//  If the %obj is a client then check if its on Team 1.
if (%obj.client.team.teamID == 1) // team 1 entered trigger...
{

You can look at how I did it in this resource I made: www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=12430

Torque Owner Jason Burch
#2
10/25/2007 (9:47 am)
I'm actually using your resource and I can't get it to work.

for some reason it will not get the teamid for me.

I've set up the sim set with the flags and everything but when I enter a trigger it will only give me the datablock information.

I'm using a stock TGE 1.5.2 with the team implementation

I just uncommented your echo calls in the resource to figure this out.

Torque 3D Owner mb
#3
10/25/2007 (11:13 am)
It should work with no changes needed as long as you have the team resource working.

Looks like your echo is wrong. You have:

echo ("Team ::: " @ %obj.client.team.teamId);

where it should be:

echo ("Team ::: " @ %obj.client.team.teamID);

notice the caps on teamID.

That might be it I dunno. Actually I think I have changed mine to teamID... looks like the original resource is how you have it. So you might want to change all the teamID in my resource to teamId.