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Hey Guys,

quick question!

Is it possible to check two things in a Story 'IF' statement?

For example, i'm trying to check if i'm in a trigger before a global flag is active so at the moment i'm doing this...

IF
CharacterEnteredTrigger(CHARACTER_Player_01,TRIGGER_LakeTrigger)
AND
GlobalEventCleared("LakeVisited")
THEN
...

But it compiles with the following error:



----------------COMPILE ERROR---------------------------
'GlobalEventCleared': DIV event allowed only as the first condition of a rule
-----------------------------------------------------------


However if I then swap the two checks around...like so..

IF
GlobalEventCleared("LakeVisited")
AND
CharacterEnteredTrigger(CHARACTER_Player_01,TRIGGER_LakeTrigger)
THEN
....

Then it fails to compile once again, this time telling me it will only allow 'CharacterEntered' rule to be checked first.



---------------COMPILE ERROR--------------------------------
'CharacterEnteredTrigger': DIV event allowed only as the first condition of a rule
-------------------------------------------------------------



So...how can you check two things?
Im guessing its not done that way! :p

CharacterEnteredTrigger and GlobalEventCleared are both Events that fire when something happens. The game can't check whether two events happen simultaneously (or in sequence) directly, so you need to create an intermediate boolean/flag after the first event in the sequence completes.

... or use the trigger query function instead of the event like so (untested):


Most events that the game can trigger are queryable from the engine without the need for intermediate vars.
Eg. event CharacterEnteredTrigger --> query CharacterIsInTrigger
event CharacterEnteredCombat --> query CharacterIsInCombat
(It seems that there is no query for GlobalEventCleared tho)

Rhidian, your approach worked. Thanks for that!

Norbyte, I tried to do your approach but Story editor doesn't recognise 'CharacterIsInTrigger' as a valid query..

It only lists:

CharacterIsBoss
CharacterIsDead
CharacterIsFemale
CharacterIsInCombat
CharacterIsInFightMode
CharacterIsInGroup
CharacterIsPartyMember
CharacterIsPlayer


Therefore I was not able to find a solution that way.

EDIT: It's wierd because there's a 'ItemIsInTrigger' query...odd that it doesn't check for 'Character' too

Ah my bad, apparently CharacterIsInTrigger only works for char/item scripts, not for story scripts ...