Editing Games:Halo 5: Guardians/Forge/Scripting/4. 'Numbers' (section)

==Numbers & Action Target Filtering==

*Most scripting actions have action target filters so being able to filter spawned objects (and players) in different ways is very useful and numbers might be the most useful since they can be changed and mathematically manipulated
*Global and Team numbers don't have any spawnable objects associated with them, so they can't be used within action target filters (only objects spawned on the map get returned by the filters)
*Global and Team are readable by Number Check and Number/Score/Spawn Order Change
*Team numbers seem to be available even when that team isn't present so those numbers can be used like global numbers, especially Teams 5-8
*The Number mod filters don't have a channel setting, but the player {alpha} channel is the one that filters work with. This means in order to use, for example, Number[include] for players, players must have that number on the alpha channel. We cannot filter barvo-zulu player channels.
*For objects, they only have 1 number so no channels to select.

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===Number Mod Filters===

*The Number [include/exclude] filters seem to only accept numbers from 0 to 64, so the other Number filters will generally be more useful
*Number THIS/ACTIVATOR [include/exclude] filters for objects that have numbers that match the THIS or ACTIVATOR object number.
*Order THIS/ACTIVATOR Number [include/exclude] filters for objects that have a Spawn Order that match the THIS or ACTIVATOR object number.
*There is no filter to search for objects with a number that matches the THIS/ACTIVATOR spawn order

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===Conditions With ACTIVATORS===

*Message: ACTIVATOR returns either the object that was the last one to execute the message or the ACTIVATOR of the script that executed the message (user selects THIS or ACTIVATOR when the condition produces an ACTIVATOR object)
*Power State: Same as Message
*NOTE: Message Send/Power Set only seem to pass along an object when the THIS/ACTIVATOR option is available for certain conditions. The THIS object is not sent by default. If you want an object to send a message without having to use Boundary Check or Interacted, try using Power=ON and have the object check for Power=ON and then have it use Power=OFF and send THIS with it.
*NOTE: The 1st Message Send or Power Set in a series that starts with Message/Power does not send THIS/ACTIVATOR with it, but later ones do.
*Interacted: ACTIVATOR returns the player that interacted with the switch or power up
*Boundary Check: ACTIVATOR returns the object only when it enters or exits the boundary (no longer continuously returns objects inside a Continuous Boundary), EXTRA returns all the qualifying objects (based on the Filter and object's Team settings) within the boundary. Both ACTIVATOR & EXTRA seem accessible as ACTIVATOR in actions that let us get number or game value info from objects.
*Number Check: EXTRA returns the object (or players) that passed the check requirement (which is a good way to filter a player)
*Number Check does not have an ACTIVATOR object, but the Object setting with the ACTIVATOR option does appear when Number/Object or Game Value is selected for the Source property, and ACTIVATOR represents the EXTRA object for this case (this is how to get player/object scope numbers, health, shields, scores, etc)