Enemies shooting a secret - the player doesn't get notified

[Enjay]

I have a few secrets set up where a wall has to get shot. When it does, some bonus or other is spawned and a SecretTrigger actor gets activated.

All good.

The secrets can be activated by enemy shots. The player still gets credit for finding the secret (a bit cheap, I know, but it's what I want otherwise 100% secrets might not be possible). However, the player doesn't get the text notification and gong sound when the secret is activated.

My possible solutions are:

to set the secret trigger to not print the text or sound and emulate it with ACS. However, getting it to look exactly like the other secret messages in the map is tricky, especially as I think some of the appearance is dependent on player options.

To set the lines so that only player shots can activate them.

I'd rather not do either of the above. I like the setup as it is right now, except for the possibility that the player might not be notified of the secrets. Is there a way to have a "SecretMessageBold" that broadcasts to all, like PrintBold and HUDMessageBold does? It's not a multiplayer map, so there are no other players involved.

[Heisanevilgenius]

You can always have a running script set to Enter so the player is the activator, and have that script trigger the secret after the other script is activated.

Have the first script set an integer, then have this script:

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Script X Enter
{
  if (activate_secret==1)
  {
    (put your SecretTrigger here)
    activate_secret=0;
  }
  delay(10);
  restart;
}

[Enjay]

Oh, clever. I can do that. Thanks.

Edit:
Works perfectly.

I went for a different script format, but using the same principle. I don't know if if either of the scripts are better than the other, or just a different way of doing it.

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//Variable to check if we have found the health dispensing computer
//This is changed in Script 137
int HealthSecretFound=0;

//Run by the player, listening for the variable being set
Script "HealthSecret" Enter
{
	//Wait for the variable
	While (HealthSecretFound==0)
	{
		delay(16);
	}
	//Variable set, trigger the health secret
	Thing_Activate (4);
}