0005404: Unreliable "item is in location" objective

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0005404	The Dark Mod	Objectives	public	13.11.2020 19:04	09.01.2021 19:17

Reporter	Geep	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	normal	Reproducibility	sometimes
Status	new	Resolution	open
Platform	Win 10
Product Version	TDM 2.08

Summary	0005404: Unreliable "item is in location" objective
Description	An objective with component type "item is in location" often can not be made to work, either at all, or episodically.
Steps To Reproduce	Here are consecutive posts by three different people in 2019 noticing the problem: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/9082-newbie-darkradiant-questions/page/350/&tab=comments#comment-438097 And I can't get it to work for me at all in late 2020. This is with a "Name of single entity" used for both Entity and Location. The latter is an info_tdm_objective_location as required and specified by the wiki description. The Entity placed (dropped in the location from inventory) was a moveable scroll with usual central origin and the required spawnarg "objective_ent 1". Following earlier forum suggestions, I also set that spawnarg on the location... made no difference.
Additional Information	I'm moving on to the recommended workaround alternative: "Two entities are within a radius of each other". I'll also put a warning to others on the wiki page describing this component.
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Geep 09.01.2021 19:17 reporter ~0013430	Jan 2021. Tried again in a different context: this time, in Objective Editor, with component's SDK-level spawnclass set to idPlayer. No evidence that detection occurred, with default info_tdm_objective_location interval of 1 second. Increased size of volume (to avoid runthru without detection), and made bottom of volume below floor (to avoid missing player origin). Also added "objective_ent 1" to all volumes. Still no luck. Broken

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
13.11.2020 19:04	Geep	New Issue
09.01.2021 19:17	Geep	Note Added: 0013430