Counter problem

Schlomonator 29 janvier 2019 18:28

I wanted to have three trigger zones that have all to be activated once in order to start a timeline. I put a counter in my chip, wired each of the trigger zones into the "add to counter" (+ symbol) port, set count target to 3 and wired the "counter finished" port into the timeline.

It didn't work. A number display wired to counter value showed that the first trigger zone increased the count from 0 to 1, but the other trigger zones didn't increase it beyond that. They were correctly triggered though, because other stuff wired to them did execute.

Why doesn't the counter work in this way?

My workaround was to use 3 separate counters each set to target value 1, which worked fine, but shouldn't it be possible with one?

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  mmdev7

  • 29 janvier 2019 23:23

  It could be that your trigger zones are overlapping in places. Counters increment when a signal changes from 0 to >0 so if one of the trigger zones is already sending a signal the it would block the second trigger zones signal.
  
  Your solution with 3 counters is what I would do as it’s much less prone to bugs.
  
  Hope this clears things up a bit :) Peter

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  Schlomonator

  • 30 janvier 2019 08:59

  They were far a apart actually, definitely no overlap.
  
  But good to know that my clumsy (as I thought) solution is actually the recommended one. Thanks!

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