triggeraction2()
 

It's come to my attention that a triggerAction2(x, y, width, height, str, params, ...) could help out in many cases dealing with an area larger than a pixel on a level.

What would it be used for? Normally it's better to trigger a DB NPC or weapon from clientside.

I support this :)

What are you talking about? o_O

It would be for triggering in-level objects.

It'd also be cool to have a triggeraction that triggered regardless of blocking and also triggered through multiple NPCs. Right now it's unreliable to use triggeractions for communicating serverside/clientside as if there's another NPC in the way it won't be caught by the intended NPC.

This too :)

Well I'm using it for a grabbing function to pick up things and open doors (see image), which would be easier to do if I could get the whole area in front of the player instead of just a pixel. It could also be used for hit detection as well as level objects like Tig said.

The light green is what's being triggered.
Inside the dark green is what I want to be triggered (one time for each NPC in the area).

You can use findareanpcs() for such things.

Ah, I see. I support this, it could be quite useful.

Indeed, but you would have to do it serverside in order to trigger the level NPCs since there's no reliable way of triggering the NPC you want in a level from clientside.

We are, in fact, doing just that on Era/Era dev, but I can still imagine some uses for this.