createTrigger

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Description

Description:

Creates a sensor (trigger) of the given type and at the given position. The type must be a class name in CfgNonAIVehicles or CfgVehicles with simulation = detector. An array containing all units that have activated the trigger is available via list triggerobj. Created triggers can be deleted using deleteVehicle.

NOTE1: Since Arma 3 v1.43.129935 triggers can be created locally on clients using the alternative syntax.
NOTE2: Since Arma 3 v1.53.132440 triggers can be disabled/enabled using enableSimulation command.

Triggers are created with default params, which are:

• a - 50.0
• b - 50.0
• angle - 0
• rectangular - false
• activationBy - None
• activationType - Present
• repeating - false
• timeoutMin - 0
• timeoutMid - 0
• timeoutMax - 0
• interruptable - true
• type - None
• text - ""
• name - ""
• expCond - "this"
• expActiv - ""
• expDesactiv - ""

Multiplayer:

Triggers are global and will be present on all machine(s) when this command is run.

Groups:

Uncategorised

Syntax

Syntax:

createTrigger [type, position, makeGlobal]

Parameters:

[type, position, makeGlobal]: Array

type: String

position: Position2D, Position3D or Object

makeGlobal (optional): Boolean - locality flag, true - trigger is global Template:EffArg, false - trigger is local Template:EffArg (available since Arma 3 v1.43.129935)

Return Value:

Object

Examples

Example 1:

_trg = createTrigger ["EmptyDetector", getPos player]; _trg setTriggerArea [5, 5, 0, false]; _trg setTriggerActivation ["CIV", "PRESENT", true]; _trg setTriggerStatements ["this", "hint 'Civilian near player'", "hint 'no civilian near'"];

Additional Information

See also:

setTriggerActivationsetTriggerAreasetTriggerStatementssetTriggerTextsetTriggerTimeoutsetTriggerTypesetEffectConditionsetSoundEffectsetMusicEffectsetTitleEffectdeleteVehiclesynchronizeWaypointsynchronizeTrigger

Notes

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Notes

Posted on March 6, 2013 - 14:15 (CEST)

teaCup

Calling list immediately after creating a trigger this way (and setting up activation, area, statements, timeout, etc..), will return <null> instead of an array. It seems the trigger needs about 1 second to initialise, after which it will behave as expected: returning an array of all the objects inside the trigger (the ones matching the criteria), or an empty array.

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Posted on September 18, 2015 - 12:54 (UTC)

MisterGoodson

Following TeaCup's note, you can reliably use the following to wait until a trigger has initialised: waitUntil {(count (list _trigger)) > 0}; // Wait for trigger to initialise