[Snippet] IsPathBlocked

jim7777 · 02-12-2012, 04:13 AM

does this snippet check if the path or line between two points are blocked?

or just a radius around the unit is being checked?

Nestharus · 02-12-2012, 04:38 AM

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does this snippet check if the path or line between two points are blocked?

or just a radius around the unit is being checked?

Path. It tries to get from one side of the tower to the other ^)^. If it can't make it to the other side, the path is blocked ;p.

2 sides chosen are based on a set of if statements to check what path through the tower was possibly blocked (left -> right, bottom -> top, right -> top, etc).

Nestharus · 02-13-2012, 08:04 AM

Fixed a bug with towers that are built 1 space apart from each other and a third tower built to possibly block the space in between. It would always read it as a block : ). Now it works properly.

Thanks to magtheridon96 for his wmw noobiness as that allowed him to find the bug ; ).

Magtheridon96 · 02-13-2012, 08:30 AM

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Thanks to magtheridon96 for his wmw noobiness as that allowed him to find the bug ; ).

I'm improving D:
And my score is pretty good compared to what you've seen other "pros" do D:

Nestharus · 02-13-2012, 06:33 PM

Fixed bug with retrieving radius (was adding 16) and removed a debug message. Would have been updated last night, but my connection was down.

Nestharus · 02-14-2012, 09:34 PM

This still has a bit of the bug mag found in it :\. I'm seeing noobs playing my wmw map encounter it over and over again. I'll investigate it tomorrow as I don't have time today.

Nestharus · 02-16-2012, 02:38 AM

Fixed final band-aid bug
Fixed 32x32 towers
Made all collision sizes work (no longer hard coded)
Fixed larger towers by making start and end points calculated while determining what is blocked around the tower

So... I believe that this now has 0 bugs and it's uber fast. I could run it off of a minimum binary heap to minimize the loop sizes when the path isn't blocked, but that'd significantly increase overhead when the path is blocked (bad worst case scenario). I'm trying to keep the worst case scenario as good as possible as I think a freeze is much worse than a generally slower operation ;D.

Anyways Bribe, you can go ahead and approve this for use in Tower War and Tower Defense maps now : D.

Magtheridon96 · 02-16-2012, 03:06 AM

Note: A resource can only be approved if it's requirements are approved ;)

Bribe · 02-16-2012, 05:36 AM

Approved. Fun resource.

Edit: The RegisterPlayerUnitEvent in your map that "AnitBlock" uses is the suck, what's the point in adding verbosity by requiring boolexpr instead of code? That's a sucky change.

Nestharus · 02-16-2012, 07:07 AM

Uh, I follow JASS standards. If you look at the actual resource, it does not have the Condition stuff in there ; ).

Bribe · 02-16-2012, 07:50 AM

If you really followed JASS standards your programming structure would be way more readable.

Earlier this morning your code looked different, you just changed it ;)

You originally wrote

Jass:

call RegisterPlayerUnitEvent(EVENT_PLAYER_UNIT_CONSTRUCT_START, @Condition(@function thistype.checkBlock@)@)

Nestharus · 02-16-2012, 08:18 AM

Uh huh, because I had forgotten to change it back. It's Condition( ) in my maps ; ).

Bribe · 02-16-2012, 08:43 AM

And in my WarChasers 2 map it only registers for players 0, 1, 5 and 6 (provided they are also playing).

To each his/her own ;)

Magtheridon96 · 02-16-2012, 02:58 PM

And in my map, I use a dynamic version of RegisterPlayerUnitEvent that allows me to use multiple triggers so I can enable and disable certain boolexprs :P

Nestharus · 02-21-2012, 01:10 AM

Fixed final bugs... I think IsPathable was bugging it up, so get the updated IsPathable objects.

This also uses better stuff now for generating the pathing map, so it's a little bit faster on load time ^)^.

Also, it is 100% official.. if players are allowed to build on all corners in a playable map area, they will be able to blanket the entire area. As long as you make it so one corner is unbuildable, you will be ok ^)^.

This is due to how the preprocessing stuff works. Sadly, there is no way to resolve this issue, it's 100% impossible. Resolving this issue would make it impossible to build bricks of towers, which don't technically block >.>. The preprocessing was done purposefully to allow for bricks (in wmw, air guards are always bricks of towers). So just make one corner in each playable area unbuildable and you'll be golden.