Triggers for Beginners

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Introduction: U_Spawn_U's Triggers for Beginners Guide Series Presents The Triggers for Beginners Guide. This Helps Beginners understand what triggers are.


Making Maps: So you've decide to make a map and you want to add some "Special Effects" to it well, you are going to want to add triggers then. Go to the Triggers Menu and then into Triggers, this will open the Trigger Editor

Below is a picture of the Trigger Editor

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Triggers: A Trigger is build up of effects and conditions, when the conditions are met the effects will fire changing something in the game.

Conditions: Before a effect can be fired the condition must first fulfilled, there are many different types of conditions each has a different set of requirements that must be fulfilled before a effect is fired. The conditions basically mean what the say. For example, units in area, when a unit is in a specific area the effects will fire simple.

Effects: An effect will alter something in the game, there are many different types if effects and each will do a certain thing. So decide what you want to happen and look for that effect, if you don't know how to use it then go to the Effects page, it has a list of each effect and it says how to use them. Then one the condition are fulfilled the effects will fire and do what you eat them to do.

Putting Triggers together: To put a trigger to together you have to combine effects and conditions


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