Next question: how to trigger a "sighted" event.

[malthaussen]

I'd like to have a short dialogue when Side 1 first spots an enemy unit.

Used the following code, but the event triggers as soon as a unit is recruited, even though there are no enemies in sight.

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[event]
		name=sighted
		first_time_only=yes
		[filter]
			side=1
		[/filter]
			[message]
				speaker=unit
				message= _ "Enemy in sight!"
			[/message]
		
			[message]
				speaker=Farnsworth
				message= _ "Damn, I knew we weren't alone out here."
			[/message]
		
	[/event]

Is there some sort of if...then I need to use to trigger it when I want it to fire?

-- Mal

[white_haired_uncle]

https://wiki.wesnoth.org/EventWML#sighted

The primary unit is the unit that became visible, and the secondary unit belongs to the side that now sees the primary unit.

Sounds like you want to make sure that a unit not on side 1 is seen by a unit on side 1.

JUST GUESSING HERE, but something like:

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[filter]
   [not]
        side=1
   [/not]
[/filter]
[filter_second]
    side=1
[/filter_second]

[malthaussen]

I'll try that. Thanks.

On edit: triggers when a side 2 unit spots a side 1 unit. So Side 2 is reporting contact to Side 1's commander. Still, it looks to be in the ballpark.

-- Mal

[lhybrideur]

Just swap side=1 and side=2 then.

[beetlenaut]

No, the posted code was correct. Don't swap it. In a "sighted" event, the primary unit (stored in the unit variable) is the unit that just got seen. The secondary unit (stored in the variable second_unit) is the unit who did the seeing. It sounds like you put the wrong speaker in [message].

[white_haired_uncle]

Actually, I made the assumption that any side != 1 is an enemy of side 1.

I have a hard time keeping the filter rules straight, I always have to look for an example, but something like this?

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[filter]
   [enemy_of]
        side=1
   [/enemy_of]
[/filter]
[filter_second]
    side=1
[/filter_second]