Only some basic help required

[Woza]

Hi, I'm somwhat new to this edditing stuff so bear with me.

I've got a trigger on a base that sets off an alarm and alerts all the guards.  It's set to:

West
Detected by East

In the condition box I've got:

this OR basealert

basealert being a variable set by some sentries a couple of hundred metres away.

So my question is:  Why does the basealert set off the trigger but not the trigger conditions as defined by this?  And if its an invalid command how can I fix it?

[Artak]

Check if you've got it the right way. Try fiddling the West, Detected by East around a bit. Maybe it should be East, Detected by West.

If that won't work you could put in
eastunit knowsabout westunit > 1 OR basealert

I've noticed that sometimes the triggers 'detected by' activation mode doesn't work to well.

[macguba]

What Artak implied, but didn't actually say, is that

this or basealert

is correct.     OFP can be a fickle mistress, and since its often hard to spot your own mistakes anyway, you could worse than delete the trigger and start afresh.  

The boundary of a trigger can appear to vary a little sometimes, and they only check themselves every 0.5s, so make sure it has a fair chance of firing.

[Chris Death]

What are the range specifications of your trigger?

If you're using a trigger with a range: 0/0 then your
detect thingy wouldn't work.

Also: it is required that the to be detected unit has to be
inside the trigger area when it's detected, while the spotting
unit doesn't have to be inside the trigger area.

~S~ CD

[Woza]

I can see what people mean about moody software!

I couldn't figure it out, so I instead made another trigger which triggered the basealert trigger, instead of having the one trigger having 2 conditions.  Does the job anyway.

Thanks for the feedback though.