help with triggers please!!!

[peabody]

Originally Posted by fvd

Hi Peabody,

Thanks for the respons.
I don't think you can choose what kind of map zone you make, it's just a map zone without any options to choose (except for the radius and height).
Or am i wrong?

Regards,
fvd

I guess I worded that wrong, yes a zone is a zone. But it is the trigger part that I was getting at. If you look at the first choice in Triggers it is "ReachZone" so if you just want a message to appear then that is all you need. The last choice in the list is "Patrol Area" and that is the screen you were asking questions about. In order to get a "Patrol Area" you can set one up using a zone which is what I think you are doing in order to get that screen you were asking about. That gives you a zone to patrol. So, it basically becomes a Patrol Area zone, even though it is still just a mapzone.

You can set a zone and then set a trigger to do anything a trigger is capable of just by using the "reachzone". That way when someone enters the zone it processes the trigger. I didn't mean to say there were different zones. But a zone can be used in different ways. One example you may have seen in the game. A star with a flag, it appears to me to use a "ReachZone" as a trigger to trigger the event "Update Objective" Once you reach the zone then it tells you what to do there.
The Patrol Area is just a differnt trigger for the same zone.

You could make a zone in Tokyo and when someone enters it send them a message "sorry I wanted you to go to Toledo not Tokyo"

But you are right a zone is just a zone, but once you set a trigger for it, then it kind of become a specific kind of zone.

Sorry if I confused you, when you were looking for help.

Peabody