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I had a vision: Use a map/route more then once.
The situation is this: 2 rooms, 1 corridor inbetween.
Beam in, room A. Objective is in room B so need to run through the corridor. Objective is complete, next objective is back in Room A, so player runs through the same corridor to the point of arrival.
I wanted to be able to spawn a forcefield and a plasma fire upon reaching a marker inside the corridor the SECOND time a player runs through the corridor passing that Place Marker. So, I linked the Place Marker to Objective Complete of the first objective.
This does not work, however. The Place Marker is active the FIRST time a player crosses the corridor and thus seems not to be linked to the first objective.
This is unfortunate, because if this were possible, us writers would be possible to use more dimensions using a single map for all players to enjoy. Not a one-way street. Please consider the pro's on this, because there are many, many possibilities if we would be able to use such an option.
Thank you again for your great works on the Foundry!!!!
I had a vision: Use a map/route more then once.
The situation is this: 2 rooms, 1 corridor inbetween.
Beam in, room A. Objective is in room B so need to run through the corridor. Objective is complete, next objective is back in Room A, so player runs through the same corridor to the point of arrival.
I wanted to be able to spawn a forcefield and a plasma fire upon reaching a marker inside the corridor the SECOND time a player runs through the corridor passing that Place Marker. So, I linked the Place Marker to Objective Complete of the first objective.
This does not work, however. The Place Marker is active the FIRST time a player crosses the corridor and thus seems not to be linked to the first objective.
This is unfortunate, because if this were possible, us writers would be possible to use more dimensions using a single map for all players to enjoy. Not a one-way street. Please consider the pro's on this, because there are many, many possibilities if we would be able to use such an option.
Thank you again for your great works on the Foundry!!!!
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I wasn't talking about using the same Place Marker twice, I was talking about using it once but at a different timing in the game at the same map.
Create 3 markers - 2 in the corridor and 1 in room B. Set the second marker in the corridor to be hidden an make the room B marker trigger this second marker into visible. This way you don't even have to make an objective.
Of course, if you want to use objectives you can set the secorn corridor marker to become visible (you can still deactivate the waypoint feature so it won't show up on the map) once the objective in room B is complete.
EDIT: Wait, I just realized that you don't want something to happen the first time you pass the corridor. In that case, 1 marker is enough.
Yes, I used that as well. But the problem remains a Place Marker is ALWAYS acive, even if you change it to hidden until Objective X is complete.
Yes, but there's the problem of the fact markers can't be set to invisible or triggered to be visible. Well, they can be set to invisible, but it doesn't work. They are always visible and thus active the first time you cross the hall. Triggering a marker with a marker, therefor, also does not work. I tried all these things already hehe.
Thanks for your answers and suggestions anyway guys :-)
The reach markers are always active even if they should be hidden until later events.
I tried Objective and Component triggers as well. The reach markers ignore them all and spawn up immediately.
And RobinPhoenix: In this case I suggest working with mission objectives for the moment because they work, they only get triggered once the story has reached the appropriate point. And if your story progression is linear at this point anyway it shouldn't matter - you can hide the waypoints so there won't be anything on your map. You can set the forcefield to appear once the objective is completed or when the new objective is in progress.
Just don't name the objective "Walk through the corridor and get trapped".
(No change has been made yet, that's just my guess about what will happen.)
And, well, why not?
Waypoints is a broader term generally used to describe the little circles on the minimap. These are selectable in the objectives boxes, such as defeat enemies or talk to contact or a reach point, and have a drop down menu that allows you to select - I believe - automatic, manual or none.
Excellent question. Was asking that myself.
And thanks all, for your replies thus far.
Okay, it does make sense to not being able to change how waypoints are displayed on the map. That's really not necesseray since oyu can initially set wheter they appear or not. That's okay.
But reach markers: Is it planned to make them triggerable?
My problem was I had dialogue going while the player could potentially be moving towards and through the next reach marker. If they did not finish the dialogue before going through that marker, the marker would not trigger. However if you move back and forward again past the boundary, it would still trigger.
Not sure if that info helps, but try making the reach marker smaller in case you are already in the volume when it becomes active. And even if you are, it should still work if you can leave the volume and then reenter it, in my experience.