Shot fired = Alarm?

[MPKING]

How can i make a trigger go if a shot have been fired from an m16 inside trigger area?

[max_killer_payne]

You can type in a trigger in the condition field

nameofmanwhofires AddEventHandler ["Fired"{exec "alarm.sqs"}]        

or in the {} whateva u want 2 happen when the alarm goes off.

[O Neil]

...so. say I made a trigger to make some men run over to you when a shots fired, I could just put in:

nameofmanwhofires AddEventHandler

And do tthe rest by trigger? (You know )

O'Neil

[MPKING]

Thanks guys, i'm not sure if i understand it right but will play around with it.
But lets say i have a trigger multiple activated by west so when they enter trigger area they can't fire without alerting enemy, then i should put the eventhandler in da trigger activation field.. right?
How would the right syntax be for this?
nameofmanwhofires AddEventHandler ["Fired"{"M16"}] ?
And instead of adding eventhandlers for every unit could it no be added once for whole group?

Sorry about this, but i haven't messed around with eventhandlers before.    

[MPKING]

SOLVED! well almost, it was easyer than i thought. I just made trigger and typed in condition field RedAlert ==1, then made another trigger and typed in activationfield nameofshooter AddEventHandler ["Fired",{ReDAlert = 1}]
Now if anybody can tell me how to (if possible) add the eventhandler to a group instead of every unit, that would be sweet!

I've tried the "group this" command and nameofgroup AddEventHandler, but that doesn't work. I just get an error message.

[deaddog]

You can only add eventhandlers to units, not groups.

Would a "west detected by east" trigger work?

You can add the eventhandler to every member of the group like this:

{_x addeventhandler .......} foreach units groupname

[Blanco]

Ok, other Q related to this subject...

I have

W1 AddEventHandler ["Fired",{Shot1 = True}]
and
W2 AddEventHandler ["Fired",{Shot2 = True}]
and
W3 AddEventHandler ["Fired",{Shot3 = True}]

But when I place a trigger

cond. : Shot1 or shot2 or shot3

onact : [] exec "alarm.sqs"


Why does this not work, the alarm script nerver start?!

[deaddog]

@blanco

I just tried that in the editor.  I placed:

this addEventHandler ["fired",{shot1=true}]

in my player's init line and a trigger:

cond: shot1
on act: hint "shot fired"

it worked just fine but when I added a second soldier with "shot2" it wouldn't work.

I fixed it by initializing the "shot" variables first.  Put this in your init.sqs file or an init line of any unit:

shot1=false;shot2=false;shot3=false

That should work.

[MPKING]

You can only add eventhandlers to units, not groups.

Would a "west detected by east" trigger work?

You can add the eventhandler to every member of the group like this:

{_x addeventhandler .......} foreach units groupname

Thanks alot, that did the trick