Tower Defense?!?

[Anonymous]

I have been a long time player of both Warhammer 40k and Warcraft 3, and your warhammer tower defences have inspired me to make one. It would be a Armageddon campeign sort of thing and i have no experience in making tower defences. Please enlighten me as to the triggers and other technical stuff, and i can handle the rest.
Thanks,
Warcheif :?:

 

[Deadalus]

Hehehe, you want us to write down how the triggers and such work ? I dunno if this forum has an size limit, if it has it wouldn't fit in here ^^. I suggest you use the mostly apraised Google search eninge and I think you'll came quite far .

 

[Anonymous]

Personally I recomend looking at a map Jacob made and he does not protect his maps, and many of his maps have already been altered by a large amount of people anyways. Become familiar with what he wrote and encoded and ask specific question you have from that.

Us trying to teach you how to make a TD from scratch is harder than teaching you how to play the standard game from the begining. IT takes a lot of time and effort to work and understand.

Also I recomend just "tinkering" with a map first so that you understand what all it does, there are a large pletora of variables and constants involved in even a simple attack, let alone everything else involved.

 

[Deadalus]

However, if you build your own TD from scratch you will totaly understand how everything works when you finished it, it might be (a lot) more work but you'll learn much from it.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

you need three things:
patients
commitment
knowledge

once you have those you will be able to make one. the first thing i suggest is cheating a map, this is how i learnt; i made a version of line tower defence where i could buy items to give me different things like units and gold, i also made one to attack enemies towers .

 

[Anonymous]

Do you know what projectile art is? Art arc? Missle type? Do you understand how splash works? Do you know how to create new spells? How about how to make models or skins? Do you know how to apply imported skins?

These are just some of the basics of creating a new map, so again, I recomend you alter an existing map first to understand how it works. Mess with things slowly so you better understand it, then when you feel up to it try it from begining to end.

To let you know what you are thinking of tho, after like 4 years of working extensively with the editor there are still things I do not understand about it.

 

[Ralle]

As William said, I recommend too that it's easier to take Jacob's Wintermaul TD and edit it till you like it.
Warhammer is made from Wintermaul but you cant see that anymore

 

[Anonymous]

Don't forget triggers and variables, very important =0

 

[GST_Nemisis]

i wouldnt mid taking part in another project to make the triggers, if u take a look and u still really dont get them, come talk to me

 

[Anonymous]

Or ask someone who has practical experiance and not theoretical experiance

 

[GST_Nemisis]

oh u just wait for about 3 days, im gunna do some crayz shit that gunna blow ur eyebrows off

if i get around to it.......

 

[Anonymous]

*waits around three days*

Hey, what happened to my eyebrows?