AITriggerTypesEnable

This page should correctly be named "[AITriggerTypesEnable]"; it is wrong due to technical restrictions.

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[AITriggerTypesEnable]

AI Programming

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[AITriggerTypes]

[AITriggerTypesEnable]

This section is responsible for disabling certain AITriggerTypes in particular maps. See the Bugs section for several problems with it.

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Tiberian Dawn

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Red Alert, Counterstrike, Aftermath

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Tiberian Sun, Firestorm, Red Alert 2, Yuri's Revenge

The [AITriggerTypesEnable] section in a map takes this format:

[AITriggerTypesEnable]
TRIGGER_ID=STATUS

Meanings of each string

String	Meaning
TRIGGER_ID	The AITriggerType's ID.
STATUS	If this is a boolean 'true', this AITriggerType will be disabled in this map.

Bugs/Side-Effects/Unexpected Limitations

Reverse-Engineered Content

The following page/section possibly contradicts several ideas accepted by the community. However, it contains information reverse-engineered from the game's executable code, not observations or theories, and as such should be considered more likely to be correct.

Note: The code implementing this feature is, let's say, sub-optimal. Avoid filling this section needlessly, since it takes, on average, quadratic time to parse (O(N^2)). It works in the following way: Global (from ai(md).ini) AI Triggers are enabled at startup, local (from the map) AI Triggers are not. Then a pass is made over this section and if a trigger is listed here, its enabled-ness is set to STATUS. If this is not an SP campaign map, that trigger is enabled regardless of STATUS. The enabledness is overridden by the [Basic]→IgnoreGlobalAITriggers= later on, when determining which AI Triggers have met their conditions.

From that follows:

• global AI Triggers should only be listed here if you want to disable some of them at startup,
• local AI Triggers should only be listed here if you want to enable them at startup. If you do not list a local AITrigger here, you will have to rely on a map trigger activating it later.