acolytes mining from haunted gold mines and construction like humans

[andreasaspenberg]

please tell me how. it is for a project i am working on.

 

[Craphter]

Ok, it's much simpler than I thought.
Here's what I did:
Go to object editor, look for acolyte, in abilities, erase "Gather gold (acolyte)" and add "Harvest Lumber and Gold".
And that's it!
Here, I attached a map with what I did.

 

[Tr!KzZ]

You also could use the other way round:

> simply replace the model of the human worker?
> (If human worker is needed, simply copy the unit and replace the model after xD)
> or as already said, change abilities

 

[andreasaspenberg]

i tried out that test map. the acolytes there cant mine from a haunted gold mine. i want acolytes to be able to construct buildings like humans and mine like acolytes.

 

[Craphter]

You also could use the other way round:

> simply replace the model of the human worker?
> (If human worker is needed, simply copy the unit and replace the model after xD)
> or as already said, change abilities

Well, if you change the model, you'll have to change the animation. The way I said, the acolytes will have the original animation...


EDIT: So you want acolytes to harvest from haunted gold mines? I'm not sure how to do this, I don't think you can, since the harvest ability requires unhaunted, and the gather ability requires haunted...

 

[andreasaspenberg]

i believe that there might be a way to fix the problem. that is why i ask for help here. i want the acolytes to gather gold like acolytes. i didnt say anything about using the harvest ability.

 

[Craphter]

By "acolytes mining from haunted gold mines and construction like humans" I thought you wanted acolytes to gather gold just like humans
Im not understanding your request, could you explain a bit?

 

[andreasaspenberg]

i want the acolytes to gather gold like they always do but at the same time being able to construct buildings the human way. only 1 thing at a time of course.

 

[sPy]

Unfortunately this is the best I can do..
I tried a lot of things, this is the only thing i can get...

 

[andreasaspenberg]

that acolyte builds and mines like a night elf. i already have an acolyte that can build like the humans but he cant mine like an acolyte. my problem therefore remains unsolved. please help.

 

[Kino]

This as far as I know is impossible. Its funny that something simple like this is beyond fixing.

Ill explain.

Setting the units race to Human makes the worker build human style.

However Haunted Gold Mines only work properly if the worker race is set to Undead.

Its hardcoded into the game, and I dont think there is a way to change that.
If you really must, you could use a an Acolyte with race as undead then give it an ability to transform into a dummy Acolyte with race as human when you need to build.

Its kinda tedious gameplaywise though.

 

[Wazzz]

Ok, it's much simpler than I thought.
Here's what I did:
Go to object editor, look for acolyte, in abilities, erase "Gather gold (acolyte)" and add "Harvest Lumber and Gold".
And that's it!
Here, I attached a map with what I did.

You didn't read what he wanted, did you?

Anyway, this is incredibly easy to do, despite what other people say =)
1. Change the race of the Acolyte to Human (based off of the original Acolyte)
2. ...
3. PROFIT

And that is it. If you feel like it, skip steps 2 and 3.

EDIT: Wait, the mining only works properly when the Acolyte is in the Undead race? Are you sure? I must check this.

EDIT: Well, just tested it, and what I thought would work did not work. My bad, stupid Warcraft 3

 

[Craphter]

You didn't read what he wanted, did you?

Anyway, this is incredibly easy to do, despite what other people say =)
1. Change the race of the Acolyte to Human (based off of the original Acolyte)
2. ...
3. PROFIT

And that is it. If you feel like it, skip steps 2 and 3.

EDIT: Wait, the mining only works properly when the Acolyte is in the Undead race? Are you sure? I must check this.

EDIT: Well, just tested it, and what I thought would work did not work. My bad, stupid Warcraft 3

I tried understanding, seemingly I didn't. But yeah, I did read.

 

[Crazed_seal2]

Go to Abilities and add Build(Human) and that should do it.
Or
Create a new unit of peasant and set everything like the acolyte

 

[andreasaspenberg]

i tried to add that build ability but those abilities doesnt work. the way a unit builds is set entirely by the units race.

 

[Mr G W]

Maybe try changing the haunted mine to human too? i cant test it atm, but never know...

 

[andreasaspenberg]

i have already changed the race of haunted gold mine i use to human. that didnt help.

 

[Adiktuz]

as far as I know, this cannot be done in the OE... but maybe you can do triggers for it...

When the undead acolyte (A) is issued a build order, change it into an acolyte of the human race (B) then order B build the building...

then if B was issued an order to mine, change it to A and reorder it to mine...

Note: this is not tested...

anyway, if it works, it will look really bad since the acolyte's animation doesn't fit on the human method of building...

 

[andreasaspenberg]

there is only 3 types of orders that can be connected to unit scripts, none of which is build orders. (i checked.) therefore that wont work.(due to limits in the trigger editor.) maybe jass can do it.(though i wont use vjass because blizzard doesnt allow it.)

 

[Adiktuz]

I think the build order is under Orders Targeting a point...

anyway, normal jass can do it I think if you really cannot make it in GUI...

 

[andreasaspenberg]

there is neither build orders nor mine orders in the trigger editor. please try to find a solution that can be used.

 

[Adiktuz]

hmmm... there's no build orders on the trigger editor? then what do you call this:

Events:

• Events
  • Unit - A Unit begins construction
  • Unit - A Unit cancels construction
  • Unit - A Unit finishes construction

Actions to Build and mine:
(all are under the Units actions tab)

• Actions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Order Unit To Build a Barracks at the Point
    • Unit - Order Unit To Harvest Mine

seriously, try to search better next time... I found all these in less than one minute...

 

[andreasaspenberg]

that is for buildings being constructed. there isnt any for the units construction buildings. the construction isnt the problem though. gathering gold is. that script wont help because it will still trigger the error message.(cant use haunted gold mine. or something like that.) the problem remains unsolved. please help.