Building rotation (permanent)

[Thmar]

Hello there,

I'm new to the world editor and I've been looking for a way to rotate buildings in game. I mean, I know how to rotate one in the world editor but is it possible to change the base model so it keeps its facing angle whenever I'm building one during a game or campaign ? Is it even possible to alter the base model ?

Thanks for your patience. If the answer is already out there, I haven't found it for the past two days...

Best regards.

 

[Uncle]

Rotating Buildings

I think I found a solution in this thread. Scroll near the bottom and look for my Rotate Buildings 2 map that I uploaded.

 

[Thmar]

Hello,

I'm not sure this is what I'm looking for. I'm not looking for a custom map, but a mod to allow rotation of buildings in any game mode (even if I'm the only one to actually see it). Is it possible ?

 

[Thmar]

Why is my previous message so slow to be approved by moderators ?!

 

[Uncle]

Whoops, I misread your question (or I forgot how to read). I have no idea if that's possible.

 

[Thmar]

Well, thanks for trying though.
I hope someone can help me.

 

[Warseeker]

You can base the building on a unit instead or simply add movement speed + rotation to the building and use this custom script :

• Custom script: call SetUnitPropWindow( udg_YourUnit , 0.00 )

 

[Thmar]

Hi, could you explain it to me ? I really don't have any experience with WC3 mods and scripts. How do I add movement speed + rotation to a building outside of the world editor ? And regarding the custom script, should I press enter in game and copy/paste it (and replace "YourUnit" by "Farm" for example ?)

 

[Uncle]

He was talking about doing that in the editor. I think he made the same mistake as me.

Anyway, maybe this will help?
Modding Warcraft III

The latest patches use CASC instead of MPQs so keep that in mind. I'm pretty sure most of the info out there about modding will talk about editing the MPQ.

 

[Thmar]

Mmh, unfortunately the discussion's over and it stopped exactly where I needed answers. From what I understand, it was necessary to edit MPQ files to change a model so I would be the only one to see it, permanently. Now that the MPQ isn't used anymore, it seems that I have to use a ".w3mod" suffix.

It's getting more and more confusing for me at this point, and I'm afraid it's way out of my reach to mod this game. The only game I modded was a Lord of the Ring RTS game and it was much more easy. Unless somebody feels like doing it for me, I think I'd better give up. I really loved your button idea, Uncle, and it would be awesome if this was possible through a mod. If you ever think about working on it, let me know. Thanks for your help anyway.