Adding tile variation In-game

[Turminator8]

Hi, I would like to know if there is anyway to add tile variation AFTER the game has started... I have already made a trigger to change the terrain type to Northrend Snow... but it makes the whole map just one tile... is there any way to have it use the other tiles from the northrend tile set while in-game?

 

[Apheraz Lucent]

There are several ways of doing this.
1. Create regions, and then, during the trigger, change terrain from regions to desired one.
2. Create dummy units, and then, during the trigger, change area around them. This can easy be done by doing the following trigger:

Pick up every unit of type Snow Dummy Terrain and do actions:
+Actions: I don't know how it's called ( :S ) but it has radius around picked unit.

3. Change terrain type - changes one tiles to another. Can be found in triggers.

 

[Snacker]

To prevent memory leaks, you'll need a variable, I named this TempPoint. The variable must be the type "Point".
You also need a region where you change the tile.
Then, you can make the triggers:

• Change Tile
  • Events
    • <Your event>
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set TempPoint = (Center of TileChangeRegion <gen>)
    • Environment - Change terrain type at TempPoint to Lordaeron Summer - Dirt using variation -1 in an area of size 1 and shape Circle
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_TempPoint)

You can change the action in the middle's Tile, Variation and Size.

Excuse my English, it ain't my native language.

EDIT: If this helped you, can you please +Rep me?

 

[Turminator8]

thank you both +rep

I have one more queston,

is there any way to go back to the origonal tile set afterwards?

 

[Apheraz Lucent]

Well, you will just have to reverse everything, do same triggers, but with different terrain. And it should be fine.

EDIT: To prevent lagging, turn on cinematic mode while the terrain is changing and pan camera to non-changeable part of map. After few seconds, turn cinematic mode off. It should prevent a possibilities of dropping players.