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First before I put my question down I would really like to say thanks to all you cool people for helping me out with my questions. I know its alot of them but i gotta learn from somewhere espesaily to these people Map making assistance, battle cruiser guy and bolt thanks guys.

Now for my question:

do i have to have scm draft to make switches or can i use xtra 2.5 to makes switches?
second question is:
How do I make switches for levels?
Please type it were a noob can understand it like command and so forth thanks guys.

I don't know if you are talking about the trigger action 'Set Switch'
or the 'Beacon Switch in game'

Anyways, Set Switch is an action in all primary starcraft editors. All it does is makine it 'Set' or 'Clear', like 'On' and 'Off'. They all start off as 'Clear/ Off' and they do nothing on its own. You use them to activate something when you 'Set' them.

To use Switches to activate levels, you do
- Player X brings 1 civilian to Location A (the location on the beacon)
- Switch 1 is clear

- Do the actions for this level
- Set Switch 1

Now do the same like this for level 2
- Player X brings 1 civilian to Location A (the location on the beacon)
- Switch 1 is set
- Switch 2 is clear

- Do the actions for this level
- Set Switch 2

And so on etc.

scm draft2 can make switches im pretty sure in its triggedit but use scxe instead. to set up levels for your bound do this:


null

Trigger

Conditions:

¤ Always

Actions:

¤ Set switch1

null

Trigger

Conditions:

¤ Switch 1 is set

Actions:

¤ obstacle one

null

Trigger

Conditions:

¤ current player brings at least 1 bounder to obstacle1 end

Actions:

¤ clear switch1

¤ set switch2

then do that for all the levels. so basically, you start out by setting the first obstacle. when the bounder reachers the end it will clear the first bound obstacle and start the second. you can of course add things to the conditions and actions or even more triggers but thats up to you.

<edit>Chill: im pretty sure that would accomplish nothing if hes talking about a bound which i assume he is.

I also advise you to look at this tutorial:
We have tutorials for everything!
http://www.staredit.net/index.php?tutorial=116

You wouldn't want to use ither of those triggers. Since this is a beginner topic i won't explain the reasoning. But the problem is you don't want to have the conditions specify a player, or current player.
The trigger needs to specifiy the entire force. So instead of
Current player brings at least one bounder to obstical end
do
Human Force brings at least one bounder to obstical end.

You also want to take out the switch condition in Screwed's Trigger.

Bolt, I never assumed the switch was made for a bound, it might be for a level starter in a defence which Player 1 brings the civilian to the beacon.

Mmm thats true, I was just thinking of bounds.
But i still hate player 1 dependant maps.

1. You can't "make switches". All switches that can be used already exist. You can rename them using any conviently available editor (except Starforge; correct me if I'm not up to date on SCMD)

2. I highly reccomend you use Death Counters for levels.

Then do something like

Trigger

Conditions:

¤ Always

Actions:

¤ set deaths of 'Cantina' for 'Player 8' to '1'

Trigger

Conditions:

¤ Deaths of 'Cantina' for 'Player 8' is exactly '1'

Actions:

¤ Do level 1 (if it is a bound, do explosions, if it's a def create units, etc.)

Trigger

Conditions:

¤ level 1 is complete (EX: 'Bounders' brings one 'Zergling' to 'end level one'

Actions:

¤ set deaths of 'Cantina' for 'Player 8' to '2'

Trigger

Conditions:

¤ Deaths of 'Cantina' for 'Player 8' is exactly '2'

Actions:

¤ Do level 2 (if it is a bound, do explosions, if it's a def create units, etc.)

Well yall hit right on the money well some of you did, it is a bound.
But i still didn't ge the answer i was looking for lol.

Ok let me see if i can explain it better.


Ok you know how u make a location and it says location well how do i make a switch place with a location

http://www.staredit.net/index.php?showtopic=10533
Take a look at that

I'm more confused than i was before.
Maybe try explaining what your trying to do as a non map maker would see it. Instead of trying to explain what your doing with triggers you don't understand.

ok ill explain what im doin:


Well im trying to make a bound with levels. And my origanl triggers are all goin off at the same time. SO I figured i would try to make some switches so they only go off when the lvel starts. But with out knowing what I am doing it lags the game out and I needed to find a way to stop all the process in the game.

I hope that is a good explanation.

I don't know what you did wrong or what caused the major lag (maybe the millions of explosions or a constant preserve trigger on a wave file etc.) but what you need to do is to break the obstacles into parts with switches using the methods the above people just mentioned. I'll just explain how it works.

The Switch is 'Set' and 'Clear'. Each trigger with 'Switch' as a condition will only fire when all conditions are met, that means also whether if the switch is clear or on is met. Therefore make each of your obstacles dependant on an individual switch and set it when a player brings a zergling to the area to start the obstacle. (And clear the switch of the previous obstacle so the previous obstacle stops running)

.....
just do

Players bring atleast one unit to End level
-----------------------------------------------------
Move all units at Bound room to Start
Set switch 1


Players bring atleast one unit to End level
Switch 1 is set
----------------------------------------------------
Move all units at Bound room to start
Set switch 2
Clear switch 1


yea, and you can set the explosion pattern

Switch 1 is set
----------------------
Create one "explosion" at '1-1'
Kill all any unit owned by all players at "1-1
Preserve trigger

such and such

location 1-1 is a location in the bounding area where the players must get acrosss.