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I'm trying to do a couple cool lua things for my map. I have destructable buildings in the map and I'm trying to make certain things happen when the buildings are destroyed.

Building A) Automatic win for the attacking team.
Building B) Subtract 10 reinforcments from the defending team.

I have attempted the reinforcements thing but it didn't work.

LUA I'm also wondering if you have to do that for every building of its type, or just the one.

Help please.

The functions you have set up don't say what will happen when some event before it occurs, so of course, they won't work. The following is good for understanding the structure of similar functions, and the If statement is exactly what you want, too: the destruction of an object.

[b][color=#FF8000]The FAQ / Everything You Need Thread Version 2.0[/color][/b] wrote:...
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• Trigger animation on destruction of object

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But your supposed Then statements are correct. Also, your first scenario would follow the same format but just with a different outcome. The outcome would be an instant victory for a particular team, so use the function: And just to be safe, you can also include an automatic defeat for the opposing team.

I've read through the thread multiple times, and I admit I'm still confused. I get the then part but not the if statements. Could you possibly walk me through creating an if statement for the Entity destruction thing?

Maveritchell wrote:animateobja = OnObjectKill(
function(object, killer)
if GetEntityName(object) == "objectBnameinZeroEditor" then
PlayAnimation("whateveranimationgroup")
end
end
)

The bolded is the If statement, and you don't even need to change it to serve your purpose here, aside from putting the actual name of the object. OnObjectKill is the event that happens to object, which also doesn't change, because that's what you want to happen; you want this object to be destroyed in order for something, the Then statement(s), to occur. For more events see the shipped document entitled Battlefront2_scripting_system.doc. Animateobja is just a variable and can be anything you want, but it should be unique per function. And then the following is what happens once the specified object is destroyed in the above example: But you seem to know what to replace that with for your purposes, so I will stop here.

New lua. Is this correct? It says I have an unexpected symbol.

There should be two end lines per function. You only have one at the moment. You used objkill as a variable for all of the functions when they should each be unique, as in different from each other.

AQT wrote:...but it should be unique per function.

And you don't need those brackets around REP. The brackets were just part of the placeholder I used, not part of the function itself.

I tried the above and still, nothing happens.

The whole top part of my script.

Trying changing "REP" to ATT in the last function, and get rid of the entire OnEntityDestruction line from the other two. You don't even need that. Also, make sure the names of the objects you referenced are correct, that they match up in ZE and in the lua.

YES! It worked, thanks AQT! :jango: This is now solved. I did your changes, manually cleaned and now it's working!