algrebraic situation

[TheAncient]

i am working on a map (no duh) and i have all of the farm, tower, town, and barrack spawn locations for the beginning of the map set in arrays.

Farm[1-16]
Tower[1-16]
Town[1-4]
Barrack[1-4]

Also, there are 4 players which are supposed to gain these units.
Player[8-11]

Each player is supposed to gain 4 farms, 4 towers, 1 town, and 1 barracks.

now since there is supposed to be eventually multiple race choices, i am trying to minimize the head-ache with Integer A and B.

but the problem is at this point i cannot figure out what equation to use in order for it to place a farm in farm[1-4] for player 8, a farm in [5-8] for player 9, a farm in [9-12] for player 10, and a farm in [13-16] for player 10. this situation repeats itself for towers as well.

here is basically the trigger. ignore the cinematic and timer related things.

• Game Start
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Cinematic - Turn cinematic mode Off for (All players)
    • Camera - Pan camera for Player 1 (Red) to (Center of Evil Spawn 1 <gen>) over 0.00 seconds
    • Camera - Pan camera for Player 2 (Blue) to (Center of Evil Spawn 2 <gen>) over 0.00 seconds
    • Camera - Pan camera for Player 3 (Teal) to (Center of Evil Spawn 3 <gen>) over 0.00 seconds
    • Camera - Pan camera for Player 4 (Purple) to (Center of Evil Spawn 4 <gen>) over 0.00 seconds
    • Camera - Pan camera for Player 5 (Yellow) to (Center of Evil Spawn 5 <gen>) over 0.00 seconds
    • Camera - Pan camera for Player 6 (Orange) to (Center of Evil Spawn 6 <gen>) over 0.00 seconds
    • Camera - Pan camera for Player 7 (Green) to (Center of Evil Spawn 7 <gen>) over 0.00 seconds
    • Camera - Pan camera for Player 8 (Pink) to (Center of Castle 1 <gen>) over 0.00 seconds
    • Camera - Pan camera for Player 9 (Gray) to (Center of Castle 2 <gen>) over 0.00 seconds
    • Camera - Pan camera for Player 10 (Light Blue) to (Center of Castle 3 <gen>) over 0.00 seconds
    • Camera - Pan camera for Player 11 (Dark Green) to (Center of Castle 4 <gen>) over 0.00 seconds
    • Camera - Pan camera for Player 12 (Brown) to (Center of Titan Spawn <gen>) over 0.00 seconds
    • Countdown Timer - Start income_Timer as a Repeating timer that will expire in 20.00 seconds
    • Countdown Timer - Create a timer window for (Last started timer) with title Income in...
    • Countdown Timer - Start Sargeras_timer as a One-shot timer that will expire in 120.00 seconds
    • Countdown Timer - Create a timer window for (Last started timer) with title Sargeras in...
    • For each (Integer A) from 1 to 7, do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • Race_chosen_integ[(Integer A)] Equal to 0
          • Then - Actions
            • Unit - Create 1 Void Summoner for Player[(Integer A)] at Evil_Spawn_point[(Integer A)] facing Default building facing degrees
          • Else - Actions
    • For each (Integer A) from 8 to 11, do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • Race_chosen_integ[(Integer A)] Equal to 0
          • Then - Actions
            • Unit - Create 1 Town Hall for Player[(Integer A)] at Town_point[((Integer A) - 7)] facing Default building facing degrees
            • Unit - Create 1 Barracks for Player[(Integer A)] at Barrack_point[((Integer A) - 7)] facing Default building facing degrees
            • For each (Integer B) from 1 to 4, do (Actions)
              • Loop - Actions
                • Unit - Create 1 Tower for Player[(Integer A)] at Tower_point[(Integer B)] facing Default building facing degrees
            • For each (Integer B) from 1 to 4, do (Actions)
              • Loop - Actions
                • Unit - Create 1 Farm for Player[(Integer A)] at Farm_point[(Integer B)] facing Default building facing degrees
          • Else - Actions

 

[Bannar]

I'm not fan of Integer A & B, although I left one because it may be confusing for you to use 3rd integer variable (as I'm using 'i' and 'n' to help me calculate indexes).

• Set n = 1
• For each (Integer i) from 8 to 11, do (Actions)
  • Loop - Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • Race_chosen_integ[i] Equal to 0
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Create 1 Town Hall for Player[i] at Town_point[(i - 7)] facing Default building facing degrees
        • Unit - Create 1 Barracks for Player[(Integer A)] at Barrack_point[(i - 7)] facing Default building facing degrees
        • For each (Integer A) from n to (n + 3), do (Actions)
          • Loop - Actions
            • Unit - Create 1 Tower for Player[i] at Tower_point[(Integer A)] facing Default building facing degrees
            • Unit - Create 1 Farm for Player[i] at Farm_point[(Integer A)] facing Default building facing degrees
          • Set n = (n + 4)
      • Else - Actions

EDIT: I hope you remember about removing locations which won't be usefull anymore.

 

[TheAncient]

i know they leak eventually, but there are nearly 200 points in variableArrays. how would i make command to destroy them without typing them 1 at a time?

and thanks +rep

 

[Bannar]

You can use function RemoveLocation() in loops to help you with such stuff. Btw, even in trigger above mentioned function could be added to free up memory immidiately:

• For each (Integer A) from n to (n + 3), do (Actions)
  • Loop - Actions
    • // stuff
    • // after creating units in those locations, they are actually no longer needed so:
• Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_Tower_point[bj_forLoopAIndex]
• Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_Farm_point[bj_forLoopAIndex]

For sure it makes your life easier. And if you created like 200 locations (let's say: location 'p[]') at the begining, removing them may be done with (again loop usage):

• For each (Integer i) from 1 to 200, do (Actions)
  • Loop - Actions
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_p[udg_i])