you can make events based off of triggers.
if you hit a trigger, some function will run, executing a piece of code.

that's how i made my RPG games usually before, indeed, idea stolen from RPGmaker :P

(use push values and event_entity to get the triggers setup)

regards,

uuh.. don´t think so.. The Rpg maker has stolen the eventcoding from the "Hexen" Editor ^^ ( wich was released for the game "Hexen" in 1991 ).


Hmm.. Yes.. But.. look at the Screen:


Every task witch startes with a "@>" is an eventcode.. how to tell the pointer wich is linked to this event, to do code by code.. from the top to the bottom of the list..
And the "Script:" Code, is an eventcode based scripteditor.. but that´s not needed ^^

I ment that i based my event codes off of RPGmaker

anyway, here's the code i made for event based trigger coding:



That should get you started good luck.

regards,

There is not simple code sollution to "eventcoding"
This is also not something a general Engine like acknex
should hardwire as functionality.

Things like you see in the RPS Maker are things that
are realized by your gamespecific-gameengine on top the
(acknex)base-gameengine.
It depends how you make your game-architecture.

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You could implement your own trigger-manager, that
constantly observes the positions of the valid objects for example.
Then it could spawn trigger like:
-one time activation trigger by any entity
-one time activation trigger by a specific entity
-multi-time on/off triggers by any entity or specific one
-triggers that have a timer
-triggers that are independent of position
-triggers that get activated by external commands,

so all kinds of triggers that act to a specific state
of the gameworld.

An eventmanager can observe these triggers, and spawn
a certain scripted sequence when activated.
This could be hardcoded functions, or using some selfmade
script-interpreter and statemachine on your own.

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there is no 5 line code soluton to your problem,
and such an eventmanger would also not be a
sensefull ready-implemented feature in the acknex engine,
as there are too many specific ways how to handle it
depending on the game that is beeng developed.