Triggers - ALL Events/Conditions/Actions (not finished)

Triggers - ALL Events/Conditions/Actions (not finished)

Though we get many questions like "What trigger is used for..." I decided to revive an old project of myself, namely describing all the events / conditions / actions of WE and giving examples what they could be used for. Lost the old project because of a headcrash on my harddrive (20 gb away )

This topic will be updated from time to time because there're hundreds of them and I don't wanna complete them all now.

Me, oz02 and Darky28 are allowed to edit this tutorial and add descriptions.

Events

Map Initialization

I think this one explains itself. It runs at map initialization. Be careful, some actions won't work (e.g. timer actions) when using map initialization.

Destructible - Destructible Dies

This one runs if a specific destructible doodad (tree, gate) dies. You should assign a variable to the destructible before this event, because it's much easier to use then.

Destructible - Destructible Within Rect Dies

Same as above, but this trigger is refering to a destructible in a region, not a specific destructible.

Game - Time Of Day

Refers to the time of day. It runs when the time of day becomes greater than / lesser then / equal to a specific value (time)

Game - Value Of Real Variable

Refers to the value of a Real (real) variable. Runs if the value of the variable becomes equal to a given value (real). This only works for non-array variables.

Game - Game Load

This event fires immediately after a saved game is loaded. Like "Map Iitialization", only after loading.

Game - Game Save

This one fires very short BEFORE saving a game.

Game - Hero Abilities Button Clicked

Fires when the player clicks the "Hero Abilities Button" (the one where you can select what ability to learn). See no real use in it, perhaps for game tutorials.

Game - Build Structure Button Clicked

Same as above, refering to the "Build Structure Button" (the one where you could select what building your worker shall build)

Player - Chat Message

Very important event. With this one you can refer to a chat message that is typed. Mostly used by online Save/Load systems.

Player - Cinematic Skipped

The name is a bit weird. It runs when the player presses the ESC-key. Look Nemesis[DK]'s Video Skip Tutorial for use (English version in progress).

Player - Selection Event

Runs if a specific player selects/deselects any unit. Refer to the selected unit with a unit-type comparison (as far as I know it's only possible to refer to "selected unit" with WEU)

Player - Keyboard Event

Runs if a specific player presses/releases an arrow key (left, right, up, down). That's a useful trigger if you wanna create a third-person-view RPG with arrow-key controlling of your hero.

Player - Properties

Runs if a player property (e.g. current amount of gold, food used, etc) becomes greater than/lesser than/equal to a specific value.

Player - Victory

Explains itself

Player - Defeat

Explains itself

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Conditions

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Actions

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can you please finish this...

Hehe, yeah, I'm a bit lazy atm. This will be finished, but atm I have more important things to do

Like... what? It's been 2 months now you haven't been on this... I don't need that, for I am an experienced triggerer , but people may need this.

Problem is I have no time atm b/c of terraining for oz, university, moderating.....

It would be nice if some of you guys would post (-> reply) some descriptions for the other triggers so I could implement them.

I'm currently writing a .Txt file that I will copy-paste to the forum when it's finished

By the way, how do you take a screenshot of the trigger editor? Each time I try to take a screenshot of it, it saves the screen of the terrain editor...

Push the Print Screen button then open paint or something and paste it. I think that should work.

No, I found it while I was trying... Ctrl+Insert, then Paste into paint.

Here's a tutorial explaining most things (don't think it's according to the new patch though). http://www.wc3campaigns.com/showthread.php?t=17723

need permission

DarkShadow, can i have permission to post ALL thats shown on the TheWickerMan´s Link here? that woul let u free from this gighantic post u didnt finished, and ill credit TheJ89. thats an awesome work he did, ill just transfer it for easier finding it
what do you say? am i breaking any rule?

Nah, I could do that for myself, but I wanna have theJ89's permission to do that, and as long as I don't have it I won't do it and don't wanna everyone else see doing it. I'm still waiting for [DragonSS]amurai-X's txt-file, if it's good enough I'll replace my tutorial with his.

Whatever, thanks for the help

yo listen people i wanted to ask you for like erm... a tutor to WE becouse i want to start a seria of campaigns(not gonna spoil for yeh ) and i was wondering who would be VERY kind enough to baby sit thru all of WE featurs and even make these campaigns with me, becouse i would be very thank full to all this, okay? thank you!