[Trigger] Add armor using a trigger ?

[Squiggy]

Hi folks ^^
well here's the situation:
Host chooses the mode of the td (normal/pro)
When he chooses pro, an aura is activated for the admintower which doubles the creeps' armor. In the first Lvs, thats ok but later.. lv7 or 8+ the game laggs as hell because there are like 300 creeps around the map ^^.
Is there some way to set the armor of units *2 like changing the handicap for their hp? o,,O

Yes, im talking about a maul

 

[Need_O2]

Dont think so
Make armor bonus abilities and give them to creeps on spawn
Or use upgrades

 

[Squiggy]

Thats what it is atm but if you attach an aura effect to 300 creeps it gets "a bit" laggy ^^

 

[NoobMapmaker]

make an upgrade and give to all the creeps, then make a trigger to set the research lv for the upgrade after the host select the difficulty.

 

[Squiggy]

Therefore i need to make the creeps heroes or what? ^^

 

[NoobMapmaker]

No, leave them the way they are units, heroes or buildings it doesn't really matter.

-Go to the Upgrades tab in the Object editor
-Edit any upgrade to give the amount of bonus u need per lv of upgrade.
-Go back to the Units tab and edit the section that says "Techtree - Upgrades Used" (add your custom upgrade into that list).
-Make a trigger with the actions "Player - Set Current Research Level" change the players to your comp and the tech to the custom upgrade you made.

Let me know how that turns out

 

[Hairybeavet]

on top of that... if you are using a trigger to create a unit. then you are also going to need to make another trigger to check every new unit joining the game to have the upgrade set to them... i made a TD like that and an easy way around that is to just make 1 units that does not spawn or anything. maybe a unit you use in artwork or cinematics and give him a Devoution aura and just set the level of the ability to the difficulty and set range to cover the whole map.

 

[NoobMapmaker]

He said hes currently using the aura technique and it lags his game thats y he wanted to try a different way. Am I right?

 

[Squiggy]

100% right.. it laggs as hell if i attach the aura to about 320 creeps.
I'll try the way, "NoobMapmaker" told me.

 

[NoobMapmaker]

Let me know how that turns out

 

[Squiggy]

Turned out that i can't set the percent of bonus-aura the unit gains by using the upgrade, but what if i change ability of the aura i made (devotion) and set the area of effect to zero and attach it to every unit/level? It that a way which reduces the lag ?

 

[PatruX]

Why not just give the creeps a plain armor bonus (item armor bonus), shouldn't cause any lag afaik?

 

[Squiggy]

like element td ?
well, it could be doable but therefore i need to give all the creeps an inventory.. so i think, an ability (fortified walls xD) is better. I wanted to do it using an aura so the armoir simply gets doubled but as this doesn't seems to be realizable, i'll have it this way ^.^

 

[NoobMapmaker]

Theres 2 ways u can change the amount of armor added per upgrade, one on the units properties and one on the upgrade itself.. did u check both to see if thats what u want?

 

[Squiggy]

Until now neither the first nor the second because im waiting right now for the system which handles the "player-leaves-situation" but i suppose on monday its finished.
I'll come back on this when i got it

 

[GhostWolf]

Just use upgrades omg.

And no you don't need to check every time a unit is created, upgrades are global, maybe play warcraft sometime and look ? :S

 

[Squiggy]

yy i do that ^^