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[Deydren]

Hello! Look's like I've run into a problem here... and I'm terribly stuck...

I want to trigger an boolean variable, if my main actor enters or leaves some regions. I've let the various regions trigger it, by attaching the same script to all of them, in which I define an ActorEntry- and ActorLeave-trigger. This far, no problem.
Now I have added a second character, that walks around the screen - and of course, cuz he is an "Actor" too, he also triggers the ActorEntry and -Leave events. 

Is there a way to let ONLY the player actor trigger the events? Or some work-around?!

Help me, please. It's drivin' me crazy... 

[eborr]

onw simple way would be to attach a small test after the actor entry event, based on the actors xy coordinate


eg

on "ActorEntry"

{
   if ((actor.X > 300) && (actor.X < 350 ))
     {
         if((actor.Y >100) && (actor.Y < 295))
          { 
           /// do something

         }
     }
}

clumsy and you would need to handcraft it for every activity, and not move the region around

[Deydren]

thank you for the fast awnser! but it cannot work this way, 'cause also the second actor's move-pattern changes dynamically and so there are no specific entry points - but that would be necessary for your idea to work. 

[eborr]

not at all,

you have two actors - your main actor and a secondary actor.  actor is the game main object and always referred to as "actor" as per the code snippet above.

Your secondary actor is loaded something like

var other_actor = Game.LoadActor(".....");

we are not testing other_actor.X


therefore his X/Y coordinate is not being tested, only the main actors, maybe you are getting confused between ActorEntry the event and actor the variable

[Deydren]

Ah! All right, now I get it But there is still the problem, that the script should work on various regions, not only one specific... So, a coordinate-based solution, isn't flexible enough.

[Mnemonic]

You can (and should) use the Scene.GetRegionAt() method. SoMething like:

Code: WME Script

1. on "ActorEntry"
2. {
3.   if (Scene.GetRegionAt(actor1.X, actor1.Y) == this) Game.Msg("actor 1 is in region");
4. }
5.