Countdown timer on specific units

[TheAyalalalalon]

I saw it on the pudge wars map and i loved it
How can i create something like that?

 

[Nichilus]

I don't see any countdown timers?
Perhaps you mean the whole table on the upper right corner, that's multiboard. Here check this tutorial: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/general-mapping-tutorials-278/all-about-multiboards-84942/

What happens in the map is that when a unit dies, the game checks who the killer belongs to and increases the value by 1 in his score. Since the system is MPI (multi player instanceable), you use players' numbers as indices to all related arrays.

 

[Emm-A-]

I think he means the text tag above the unit, currently showing "3!".

To do something like this, you need two triggers.

Outline:
The first starts a timer, that you have to save to a variable
The second trigger has to fire every time, the timer in the variable expires (event).
Create a floating text above the unit, in the second trigger.

 

[Chaosy]

There are likely quite a few ways to create this.
Should be a piece of cake if one understands the concept of MUI in general. So I'd start there if I were the creator of this thread.

 

[Nichilus]

I think he means the text tag above the unit, currently showing "3!".

Wow, until you wrote it, I didn't even see it. I mean brown text on a grass/dirt terrain and behind health bar xD I don't understand how you could even see that, but good job

Outline:
The first starts a timer, that you have to save to a variable
The second trigger has to fire every time, the timer in the variable expires (event).
Create a floating text above the unit, in the second trigger.

I would like to just expand on this a bit.

First, depending on how many units you want this for, it may be better if you simply use one trigger with periodic event instead of timers.

Second, before creating new floating text, use an action to destroy the old one first. E.g. this action:

• Floating Text - Destroy *your floating text*

The reason is that there is a limit to how many floating texts you can have in game at once. The number is 100. So if you are updating your floating texts way too quickly for way too many units without destroying the old floating text (instead of destroying you wait for their lifespan to expire), you can hit the limit.