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Ok I need a preserved trigger that displays texts message to multiple players.

*It must be in limit of 2-3 triggers on 1 message. I will need to display a lot of them.
*All human players(1-6) must see it.
*The trigger(s) must be preserved, and must work the same multiple times.
*must not use more than 1 death counter on message or no DC at all.

Now, I know how to do it, but I am looking for the best and easiest way. So why not ask the best map making community in the world

Note: please don't try to give an advice if you are not competent in this matter, thank you.

Do you want one message at a time, or able to send multiple?
If it is one message at a time just make different death count values for each message.

Probably multiple, maybe even 3-2 in a second. But please explain your method a bit.

Something like this:

Trigger

Description:

Set Message 1

Players:

¤ Whoever

Conditions:

¤ Whatever

Actions:

¤ Set Deaths of Whatever to 1

¤ Whatever else you need (preserve, et cetera)

Trigger

Description:

Display Message 1

Players:

¤ Whoever

Conditions:

¤ Deaths of Whatever is Exactly 1.

Actions:

¤ Display "Message 1"

¤ Set Deaths of Whatever to 0

¤ Preserve

Trigger

Description:

Set Message 2

Players:

¤ Whoever

Conditions:

¤ Whatever

Actions:

¤ Set Deaths of Whatever to 2

¤ Whatever else you need (preserve, et cetera)

Trigger

Description:

Display Message 2

Players:

¤ Whoever

Conditions:

¤ Deaths of Whatever is Exactly 2.

Actions:

¤ Display "Message 2"

¤ Set Deaths of Whatever to 0

¤ Preserve

Edit: Ah.. big ><

Yea, and setting DCs for a force will set it for each player. Pretty clever.
Thank you

Anyone can beat this?

Nope, that's the exact system that I was going to post.

i dont know if this is exactly what the other guy was doing but this is the triggers for how i would do it, this is a exact copy/paste from SCMDraft 2, this is assuming you are using hyper triggers too.

How this works is you have a constant death adder, then for all the seperate messages they have a number, 12 deaths for every second, so the first message is one second the second message is at 2 seconds, then it resets. Simple as that.




Trigger("Force 1"){
Conditions:
Always();

Actions:
Set Deaths("Force 1", "Terran Marine", Add, 1);
Preserve Trigger();
}

//-----------------------------------------------------------------//

Trigger("Force 1"){
Conditions:
Deaths("Force 1", "Terran Marine", Exactly, 12);

Actions:
Display Text Message(Always Display, "Message 1 WOOT!!");
Preserve Trigger();
}

//-----------------------------------------------------------------//

Trigger("Force 1"){
Conditions:
Deaths("Force 1", "Terran Marine", Exactly, 24);

Actions:
Display Text Message(Always Display, "Message 2 WOOT!!");
Preserve Trigger();
Set Deaths("Force 1", "Terran Marine", Set To, 0);
}

//-----------------------------------------------------------------//

I don't see how this helps. It just show a message every second. I need a message for example for every kill.

Hey dead. You can't be a very good map maker if you want someone else to do all the work for you. I find I learn most through the trial and error method. Juse make your own map and it will solve all of the confusion about what the actuall trigger is supposed to do.

Umm, when did he ever want anybody to do all the work for him? I can't seem to find it. Also, the point of this forum is to ask for help which is what he is doing.

The problem with that system is that it requires all the players to be there; if, say, player 2 is not there, your first trigger will set the deaths to 1, and they will never get set to 3. Farty's system WILL work all the time; the problem was, he didn't describe it very well. The trick is to set the deathcounts to (specific number of deaths to call the message you want) on the force level, and then have each player's deaths set back to 0 with Current Player.

So, the set message trigger is activated. Every player in the force gets a certain number of deaths. Then the message trigger activates for each player individually, setting that player's deaths of the unit to 0 and displaying the message for them. This means that no, the first trigger wouldn't stop the others from firing.

Yea, Farty's method works very well so far. It uses only 1 death counter, has 2 triggers on message and can shoot pretty fast.

Only possible problem might be if 2 different message conditions met at once, the first might be disturbed. So, I put another condition to the first trigger "player1(-6) has exactly 0 DC". So even if 2 message conditions met at the same time, 2nd message will wait in queue. I haven't yet tested it with all 6 players, but looks good till now.

Jello-Jigglers, I am good enough map maker yet I can ask for help if I require it. Of course I can do the trigger without help, but this has been a problem in few of my maps. So why not ask for the best method? Can't learn if you don't ask

But that would require more than 1 DC. Farty's method uses 1 DC on all messages

I am talking about different messages, I would still need a different DC for other messages.

In Farty's method, DC1 goes to message1, DC2 goes to message2 and so on.

Instead of wasting the deathcounts for all the players you could only use the deaths for one player. They all can detect it.

Yea and they also change it and stop the trigger by first player

My system works just fine, I use it all the time.
And if you are going to do:
Deaths is 1;Display Message1,Add 1 Death
Deaths is 2;Display Message2,Set to 0

Why not do this?
Deaths is 1;Display Message1,Display Message2,Set to 0


With the way I put, you can reorder the triggers in a way so if multiple message Conditions are met, it will set Message1, Display it, Set Message2, Display it, and so on.

What are the conditions for the text messages?

Does it matter?

Yes.