[Trigger] Area Selection Trigger

[Dakillakan]

I am working on an "Art of Defense" based map where, but with 100% unique races, currently it's seven [7] players. Problem is that I know for a fact that 7 people will not join this game/stay to play... I was thinking of having a Trigger that zooms you into an area so you can select it.

I'm not real good at triggering, so no Jass please... its all mumbo jumbo to me . I'm just curious if its possible to do this completely in GUI scripting [Removal of leaks is also a good thing ]

Credits if you can help me , although I'm sure it is probably a no-brainer for veteran map makers.

 

[CrueIIntentions]

I dont really get what you need.
Do you want a trigger that does something when a player leaves?
What do you mean by zoom? Panning the camera to an area? Or setting the camera distance on a certain area)

I'm just curious if its possible to do this completely in GUI scripting [Removal of leaks is also a good thing ]

It really depends on what you want to do. Alot of pretty cool stuff can be done in GUI. I like JASS better but. A little more info is needed on what you actually want to do...

I recommend reading this tutorial:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...79/how-begin-triggering-complete-noob-114877/

No offense intended.

 

[Adiktuz]

I am working on an "Art of Defense" based map where, but with 100% unique races, currently it's seven [7] players. Problem is that I know for a fact that 7 people will not join this game/stay to play... I was thinking of having a Trigger that zooms you into an area so you can select it.

I'm not real good at triggering, so no Jass please... its all mumbo jumbo to me . I'm just curious if its possible to do this completely in GUI scripting [Removal of leaks is also a good thing ]

Credits if you can help me , although I'm sure it is probably a no-brainer for veteran map makers.

I cannot understand.... you zoom into an area so you can select it? what will that do?

 

[Dakillakan]

I cannot understand.... you zoom into an area so you can select it? what will that do?

Okay i need to explain myself better, sorry.

The "camera" will lock-on to the target zone and the player can choose if he wants to build there or not. No sense in having Player 1/2/3 on the left side while everyone else was either not playing or left = / .

As for leavers i just want it so that all their buildings are destroyed but all players get a certain amount of gold/lumber.

 

[CrueIIntentions]

Well, As for the camera part, I still dont understand. But For those that have left-

• Events
  • Player - player X (color) leaves the game //Im not going to write out for every player.
• Conditions
• Actions
  • Set TempPlayer = (Triggering Player)
  • Pick every unit in (units owned by (TempPlayer) and do add picked unit to TempGroup
  • Pick every unit in (TempGroup) and do (kill (picked unit))
  • Pick every player (all players) and do add (TempUnit current gold / number of players in (all players) to (picked player) current gold. // this is easier if you have a unit group set for teams of players or all players in general. Then you can remove the "TempUnit" from that group.
  • Custom script: call DestroyForce(udg_TempGroup)

I had to recreate this without my editor so it may not be accurate. The only part I'm not sure about is, adding the gold. I think you might actually need it to be a player group. Regardless that will help you on your way. Now to your camera problem If you have a region already preset to where you want them to build, you can just do :

• Actions
  • Camera - set camera bounds for (<Your Players>) to <Your Region>

If not, you might have to scrap it. I think you can only create regions in Jass/vJass.

 

[Adiktuz]

so its like modifying the start location of a player? you zoom into a certain region then ask the player if he wants to start there?

I think this will do for the zooming

Zoom trigger

• Events
• Conditions
• Actions
  • Camera - Pan Camera For Player() to Place() over 0.00 seconds
  • Camera - Set Distance of Camera to target for Player() to XXX

 

[CrueIIntentions]

Indeed it will. The camera triggers you have there will definately work for you.

 

[Anachron]

I still don't see what he meant with zooming in. Where, how, why?