Building turn corpse to gold?

[darklord_avalon]

-not certain if this is the right spot, but I think so-

Yea I'm looking for a fairly complex idea, I dont know much about scripts, so if its possible to be done without them that would be a big plus, however I understand if it cant.
I'm looking to make a building, think nightelf, a building that can transform and walk around and such. I want it to gather dead bodies, and after filling up on the bodies it can transform into a 'gold mine' with gold in it dependant on the unit corpses it stored up. Then the basic worker unit can go in and gather the gold, emptying the structure to let it do the same thing all over again.

I would love to be able to do that with spells and abilities rather then triggers, so thats my first question can it be done with spells and abilities alone?

-thanks in advance ^.^

 

[Karmine]

I don't think you can do it with spells and abilities alone, I think you're going to need quite few of triggers also.

 

[darklord_avalon]

Right, since it more then likely cannot be done with abilities, now I just need to find out how to do it with triggers
Thanks for the... affirmation Karmine



Bugger- looks like I will have to resort to delving into tutorials.
hm, well I should finish the custom model first... I may abondon the project for failure of a good skin, or animations lol, I'm not so good at those.
...why am I saying all this... I dont know... monologue - complete

 

[Lord-Of-Shadows]

That may take alot of triggers chained together with variables for helping. That would be a big chain.

 

[Chaos Overlord]

Does world editor have anyhting that checks the amount of corpses a unit carries, like using the collect corpse thing on the meat wagons? I dont think it does but if there is some way to check that, your golden. Of course, you still got some sticky triggers to work through, but the basic idea would be a lot easier.

 

[darklord_avalon]

Well I have hit a hickup sooner then expected. While rooted the tree has the abilities I am using to test, but when uprooted, it has none.
and its supposed to eat/gather the corpses when its uprooted, then root and baisically digest the corpse to make gold.

 

[Chaos Overlord]

Yes I know, and if I knew a way, but unfortunately, my ways never work because I like to use inexistant actions, unless someone could tell me that there is an action like I described or even a line of custom script.

 

[darklord_avalon]

I will figure that part out,
right now I need to figure out why it cant use its powers while in its mobile form.
its confounding.

 

[Chaos Overlord]

Well you can always just add the abilites to your mobile form after they cast the unroot spell. Just do the add ability function.

 

[darklord_avalon]

hm?
well I have the tree, copied one of the other ancients
and its abilities list has all of the abilities I want
the abilities are present while it is rooted, but they are not present when the tree is uprooted.

 

[Rui]

That is normal on ancients.

PS. - Do NOT double-post. Use the Edit Post button on the lower right of your post.

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[darklord_avalon]

...well thats annoying, gotta figure out why.

oh, yea... I knew that... oops

 

[Triptrippen]

Progress?

I was just wondering if you've abandoned this or not, and If you haven't can you post some progress you've had?

I am wanting to do something similar except I want to have corpses turn into mini-goldmines with gold reliant on about 1/2 of their max HP...

 

[Allcor]

maybe turn dead unit's into trees with a corpse as art, you can edit the hp of a destructeble think it coresponds with the amount of wood harfested off it.

Just means you get wood instead of gold, and can't use normal trees.

best I can think of and onley one trigger,

For first poster could also use trees and the abylety eat tree witch show's up at treants. use a trigger actevated with the abylety, use Custom Value to add the wurth of the eaten unit and use hp of the tree in that fase. Something like that.

 

[DesKaladA]

ho ho ho
This is easy
i know how to make it
pm me if u want hlp

 

[Triptrippen]

If I can figure the trigger out on how to turn corpses into trees that will work I think... I'll just have to add a trigger to turn wood into gold I guess

 

[DesKaladA]

i know how to do it so do you want my help

 

[Allcor]

didn't he ask it when he posted? why not type it out?

 

[DesKaladA]

ok

all you need to do is make a array for each of the unit trained
then add +1 for each unit that died in x raidouis of the tree unit tiney
you can add sfx at the dead unit and the tree if you want
all thats left is a abley to upgrade
into a goldmine
then modfy it so it has the amount of gold of the number of dead units that died in that aerya