How do I create a notification/message when a large bandit party spawns?

[ShadowArkitecht]

Good evening!

Quick question, I have created a large bandit party army that will spawn once every 30 days with an included bandit hero. However, I want there to be a small message that will notify the player when the party spawns on the map. I was wondering on how I would go about this, I imagine it has something to do with creating a trigger which will check if the party has spawned or not.

I have limited knowledge on how triggers function or how to achieve this outcome so any help would be appreciated.

 

[Swyter]

Good evening!

Quick question, I have created a large bandit party army that will spawn once every 30 days with an included bandit hero. However, I want there to be a small message that will notify the player when the party spawns on the map. I was wondering on how I would go about this, I imagine it has something to do with creating a trigger which will check if the party has spawned or not.

I have limited knowledge on how triggers function or how to achieve this outcome so any help would be appreciated.

You can go down to the message box route or just display a side-log entry, if you'd like it more subtle. Either way, you just use the adequate opcode in the spawning trigger block, just at the end. Or variable chaining, you know, a trigger which sets to truth a variable which after a certain delay when certain conditions are met launches the user message and sets it to false again.

http://dev.getconquest.net/swysdk/src/0afc7b76209d4fddbebd538669282d7972f6bedb/Header/header_operations.py?at=default#cl-1449

Nice reference. Courtesy of Lav.

 

[ShadowArkitecht]

Thankyou for the quick reply! I'm opting just for the small message in the corner, however even reading the article you posted I am still struggling to understand (you wouldn't believe I'm doing a programming course at university  ) basically I need baby steps lol.

 

[Somebody]

The usual notification logs are filled by (display_message, "@whatever"), The message boxes (tutorial_box, dialog_box) are shown at the game start, pausing the game for important events and allowing you to display longer paragraphs.