Buildable Moat

[ndh]

Hey, for my current project i would like to add buildable moats. I'm not quite sure how to accomplish this, but here is a screenshot to help you understand what i am trying to achieve.

Castle Moat

Just some random image i found through Google.

It should be unpathable and when destroyed it fills up with dirt or something and becomes walkable again. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[ndh]

Bump...

 

[TheWhiteWolf]

Only with triggering. You would have to add terrain deformation and water doodads, some dummy units, and trigger terrain lifting and water doodad destruction after dummy unit dies. This is not easy, so I suggest the solution from LotR:BfME2. Just make them decrease melee vulnerability of the castle.

 

[El'Dragon]

too bad it aint possible to be a building, as i am in need of a moat too, as i want to make a map similar to settlers game thingi

 

[ndh]

Perhaps we should request it as a model then?

 

[El'Dragon]

yh that would be more possible to make...

 

[Deleted member 177737]

Actually this might be possible with some triggers and a water pane model...

-Create unit with the pathing of a tower and set the model to be a pane of water floating in the air.

-Trigger it up so when you build the "moat" on a piece of land the land that it is on is pushed down into the ground so that the water pane model will appear to be in the ground. Then, because the unit is using the tower's pathing it would prevent units from passing it to.

(I just wrote it as I thought it. But this is indeed possible to do.)

 

[ndh]

Would you be able to submit a test map?

 

[Deleted member 177737]

Ehh I'll see what I can do, I haven't done much with changing terrain through triggers.

Edit: I did up some basic triggers just to show the idea, it should work with the right model.

 

[El'Dragon]

hmm, interesting indeed