Trigger a state with another state

[younglegend]

Hello ppl. I'm still messing with my new interest on crowds and got stuck in a situation.

So i have 10-15 agents in 'idle' state and among them 3 random agents change their state to 'headshot' ( I'm using pop groups set to random). Now i want the rest of the agents to change their state to 'scared' soon after 'headshot' state is triggered. Here's what i've tried..

1. Made a group/attribute when the headshot state is triggered and use that on the crowd trigger vex. Did not work...

i@trigger = 0;
if (@group_groupname or attribute == 1){
i@trigger = 1;
}

2. Used the state trigger expression directly on crowd trigger. Nope.

i@trigger = 0;
if (s@state == "headshot"){
i@trigger = 1;
}

The only expression that works is with @Frame. I have to manually find the frame where the agent get triggered to the 'headshot' state and enter it. Moreover my next step is to trigger the 'scared' state by radius/proximity.

Any help or ideas is appreciated. Thanks!

[younglegend]

Solved it! Had to use a sop solver under crowd source. For some reason the crowd trigger weren't updating the particle attributes. Guess it can only read already updated ones.