Using info_location for objectives?

[Springheel]

I've never used info_location for objectives before, and there's nothing specific in the wiki about it. I'd like to use it for a typical, "player must go here" objective. I can't get it to work though.

 

Anyone know how this works or a map that uses it I could look at?

[demagogue]

The 'player must go here' objective doesn't use locations typically, it uses the player entering a special kind of brush, and there's a separate tutorial on that. I really don't think there's anything in the location system specifically for objectives, since neither me nor Tels added anything like that.

 

If I wanted to use a location anyway, my first instinct would be to use its 'call script on entry' and have a script fulfill the objective directly somehow. Seems the easiest way.

 

Edit: In the wiki for the Objectives Editor under the section "How to directly trigger an objective or component to complete", it describes how to directly trigger an objective with a custom script.

 

Basically, create the entity "target_tdm_setobjectivestate" with the property/value "obj_idN O" (where O is the objective number and N is simply the obj_id number if you want several on the same entity), and then have the location-called script trigger or activate that entity. You enter the location, script runs, entity triggers, then it fulfills the objective upon being triggered.

[Sotha]

Yep, why use location for it? Just use a trigger_once to complete a custom objective and be done with it.

[Springheel]

I really don't think there's anything in the location system specifically for objectives,

 

 

There is an "Item is in info_location" option in the objectives editor. Does it not work? If not, we should get rid of it, since:

 

The most common error with the exit objective is using the 'in info_location' component rather than the 'in location' component.

[Springheel]

To save me headaches, can someone confirm that objectives are supposed to work when the map files is run from the console?

[grayman]

To save me headaches, can someone confirm that objectives are supposed to work when the map files is run from the console?

 

Yes.

[demagogue]

There is an "Item is in info_location" option in the objectives editor. Does it not work? If not, we should get rid of it, since:

If it's really broken, imo it'd be better to bug fix it, since it should be easy to make work & is admittedly convenient.

[Springheel]

It's possible it works and I just set it up incorrectly. I haven't been able to find any info on how to properly set it us, hence the OP.

[Obsttorte]

You can check old habits or builder roads, I've used this kind of objective in both of them. The second one may be more suitable for investigating as it is smaller.