Support What is a good way to run something for 1 tick?

[AbandonedCashew 224]

Title may be slightly mal-informational, but what I need is to activate an incident when a timer hits 5, but only for one tick when it is at 5, not for all the ticks during the entirety of time it's equal to 5.

How could I do this using scratches or another simply method?

Edited February 25, 2014 by AbandonedCashew

[shanez1215 59]

When Timer is 5

And numericscratch0 is 0

*Do whatever you want*

Set numericscratch0 to 1

Since the first two conditions using "and", the trigger won't work if the second condition is false (if numericscratch0 isn't 0), and the end of the trigger sets numericscratch0 to 1, which allows the trigger to activate once for a tick when the timer hits 5.

Edited February 25, 2014 by shanez1215

[AbandonedCashew 224]

I thought that it wouldnt run through unless I've set the scratch to 0 somewhere else... Either way Ill try this method again. Thanks shane

[AMD 885]

When Timer is 5

And numericscratch0 is 0

*Do whatever you want*

Set numericscratch0 to 1

Since the first two conditions using "and", the trigger won't work if the second condition is false (if numericscratch0 isn't 0), and the end of the trigger sets numericscratch0 to 1, which allows the trigger to activate once for a tick when the timer hits 5.

 

You'd need to use a global variable instead of a scratch one. The value won't persist between ticks otherwise.

[AbandonedCashew 224]

Ah so its back to what I've always used then. I hate filling up my global vars with 1-time use things.

[Gordon 46]

Couldn't you just run the timer to 6?

[AbandonedCashew 224]

I don't eactly get what youre saying, but the timers length is a user option, and if you mean setting it to 5 when it = 6, too ghetto for me. Team numerics are doing the trick but id like to find a way to do it using scratches.