trigger once

[ViPER]

How do you get a trigger to trigger just once ?

I want it to trigger once each time a player runs into it but every thing i do just keeps triggering as long as the player is in the trgger area or just works once and not for the next player.

cant be use

[Rookie One.pl]

Use a trigger_once entity (it's exactly the same as trigger_multiple but gets removed after it's triggered) or execute the nottriggerable command on it after it gets triggered. The triggerable command makes it usable again.
Example:

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trigger_triggered:
self nottriggerable // disable the trigger
wait 5
self triggerable // enable the trigger again after 5 secs

[ViPER]

trigger once wont do it - but if i use this not triggerable thing it will still trigger 5 sec later if the player still there right?

i want to send one local message to each player every time they enter.

maybe theres another way?

[lizardkid]

or, place this key/value in the trigger's fields.

cnt / 1

cnt defines how many times the trigger will go off before it removes itself. trgger_once is more conventional, however.

[bdbodger]

If you want to do it while a player in in the trigger , I mean for another player you can do it like this assumeing the thread is run by setting the setthread key on the trigger

trigger_thread:

local.player = parm.other

if(local.player.intrigger != NIL)
end

local.player.intrigger = 1

// do your stuff here

while(local.player istouching self)
waitframe

local.player.intrigger = NIL

end


Also you can set a wait on the trigger

"wait" ( Float wait_time ) Set the wait time (time between triggerings) for this trigger