How to alternate messages from A to B and repeat

[TP_Jacko]

I am trying to make a group that when activated then displays displays a message to the player(s) "Message A". When activated again  displays another message "Message B", then if activated again switches back to "Message A".

 

I understand all the individual parts needed but the switching of messages is really not working.

 

>Trigger > Display Message A to player

> Trigger > Deactivate Message A > Activate Message B to player

> Trigger > Deactivate Message B > Activate Message A to player

etc

[LLv34_Temuri]

Use timers in between trigger and messages and activate/deactivate the timers.

[TP_Silk]

I demand that Jacko gets on TS to personally give the messages at the correct time whenever I'm flying the mission he's crafting - My squadron don't know it, but I personally control all of the 'AI' AAA in the missions we fly     

[JimTM]

Here's one way to do alternate messages:

 

 

 Here's how the setup works:

 

- Target link any MCU (or message link from an object) to the "IN" timer.

- Counter "CA 1x" is set to 1, Reset After Operation.

- Counter "CB 2x" is set to 2, Reset After Operation.

- Any input signal triggers both CA and CB.

- CA fires first (and resets), which then triggers "Message A".

- CB fires second (and resets), which then triggers "Message B".

- The cycle of CA and CB firing continues with every input.

 

Here is a test mission that uses a couple of timers to alternately trigger message A and message B at 10-second intervals:

 

JimTM - Test Alternate Messages.zip

Edited August 18, 2017 by JimTM

[TP_Jacko]

 

 

Here's one way to do alternate messages:  

 

 

JimTM this is a very neat way to get this to work. There is no way I would ever have expected the counters to work like they do. To be honest I still am not sure why CA does not fire every time in the background if it is reset after each trigger. I tried it with the CB message  set as a blank to see if it did. But it only fired when the CA message was meant to.

 

Anyway thanks it also fixes  the Flag problem for me.

[coconut]

Here's one way to do alternate messages:

 

JimTM - Test Alternate Messages.png

 

 Here's how the setup works:

 

- Target link any MCU (or message link from an object) to the "IN" timer.

- Counter "CA 1x" is set to 1, Reset After Operation.

- Counter "CB 2x" is set to 2, Reset After Operation.

- Any input signal triggers both CA and CB.

- CA fires first (and resets), which then triggers "Message A".

- CB fires second (and resets), which then triggers "Message B".

- The cycle of CA and CB firing continues with every input.

 

Here is a test mission that uses a couple of timers to alternately trigger message A and message B at 10-second intervals:

 

JimTM - Test Alternate Messages.zip

 

Almost, but not really. Message A will be shown every time, message B every second time. What you should do is set CA to 2x reset, and increment it once unconditionally at the start of the mission.

[JimTM]

Almost, but not really. Message A will be shown every time, message B every second time. What you should do is set CA to 2x reset, and increment it once unconditionally at the start of the mission.

 

Hmmm, you're right, I missed that, but it still worked in my test. Something is causing CB to override CA. Perhaps it's because I created CA first and CB second, so CA is processed first, message A appears for a split second and then CB is processed and message B appears to overwrite message A. Your fix is nice though, thanks.

Edited August 18, 2017 by JimTM

[TP_Jacko]

Almost, but not really. Message A will be shown every time, message B every second time. What you should do is set CA to 2x reset, and increment it once unconditionally at the start of the mission.

Hmmmm, I will try this. I noticed when I hooked this switch to the CTF timer and scoring group one side did not get the timer to run so I wonder if its because of this.