Talk:Dissecting the Scripts for Weapon Racks

Erroneous assertion

It's written: « I'm not going to try and explain states here, but it's redundant and has no utility if you only have a single state in a script. »

That's plain wrong: a singleton state can be essential e.g. when monitoring things, while using RegisterForSingleUpdateGameTime for instance. One example which is quite self-explanatory:

Scriptname FactionDetectionScript extends ObjectReference  
{Script to be attached to some object in the cell you wish to be monitoring for the player to be a member of some allowed faction}
Actor Property PlayerREF Auto
Bool ShouldWaitForAllowedFaction = True

Event OnLoad()
	If ShouldWaitForAllowedFaction
		GoToState("WaitForAllowedFaction")
	EndIf
EndEvent

State WaitForAllowedFaction
	Event OnBeginState()
		If PlayerREF.IsInFaction(AllowedFaction)
			ShouldWaitForAllowedFaction = False
			; Do what you want to do
		Else
			RegisterForSingleUpdateGameTime(0.9)
		EndIf
	EndEvent

	Event OnUpdateGameTime()
		GoToState("WaitForAllowedFaction")
	EndEvent
EndState

--HawkFest (talk) 2013-01-29T15:34:42 (EST)