Automatic AI bridge repair in single player mission

Celerrimus · Civilian **Also Known As**: CeLe **Joined**: 04 Mar 2024

Hi guys I'm new here and I hope it's never too late for that!!

As the title suggests, I'm trying to figure out how the AI repairs a bridge on its own in single player missions.
I have succeeded so far - but there is a negative side effect:

After the bridge has been repaired, it is immediately reported as destroyed again and thus the AI has an endless loop of repair squads trying to repair an already intact bridge.
In this experiment I worked with variables (locals). But even activating/deactivating triggers without locals did not provide a solution.

Exclamation

Currently I have set it so that the bridge is only reported as destroyed when any 'house' runs over it, more precisely via this single CELL-TAG (see picture for details) for event number 31.
And I probably can't leave it out because otherwise the game wouldn't know if the bridge was destroyed. And I don't understand why this cell reports the bridge as destroyed...

Idea

Maybe helpful:
- Even a freshly installed TS/FS (v2.03) without mods leads to the same problem when I put this repair-trigger thing in a single player map.
- copied online tutorial of 2012
- copied triggers from original missions by WW, but it doesn't seem to work properly there either
- using original FinalSun Editor (v1.01)
- Win 10

I'm trying to figure out a lot of things myself, but I don't think it will work this time. Therefore I need your help! Smile

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E1 Elite · General **Joined**: 28 May 2013

There is no direct indicator for the AI to know if a bridge is broken. Using celltag is next best thing but it is better to place 3 celltags at the bridge end tile like under the gate.

Celerrimus · Civilian **Also Known As**: CeLe **Joined**: 04 Mar 2024

Thank you for your reply.
It's my first post, so I think I may not have described the problem clearly enough.

E1 Elite wrote:

There is no direct indicator for the AI to know if a bridge is broken. Using celltag is next best thing but it is better to place 3 celltags at the bridge end tile like under the gate.

Overfilling the bridge with more celltags didn't help, rather made it worse - or I misunderstood.

The only problem is that the bridge is reported as destroyed when walking over a cell tag from event 31 on a repaired bridge.
Otherwise everything would be correct. And I can't understand why Event 31 does this as there are no other settings. I hope it's not a bug.
and i really hope there is an experienced bridge builder out here Wink