[General] Create Units - Building Displacement

[Eikonium]

Hey guys,

I am using the create units function

• Unit - Create 1 Circle of Power for Player 1 (Red) at Center of [SomeRect] facing [SomePoint]

to place Circle of Powers onto the map.
However, they get slightly displaced all the time, and the form of displacement seems to depend on the map coordinates of their creation points.

I'll show you some images to explain it:

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All circles are created at the center of the red regions.

Northwest of the map. The circle got placed in a way that its own center is located at the center of the rect (I guess that's the normal way).

Northeast of the map. The circle got placed in a way that its most east point is located at the center of the rect. That means the circle got displaced at west direction.

Southeast of the map. The circle got placed in a way that its most southeast point is located at the center of the rect. That means the circle got displaced at northwest direction.

South of the map. The circle got placed in a way that its most south point is located at the center of the rect. That means the circle got displaced at north direction.

Southwest of the map. The circle got placed in a way that its most south point is located at the center of the rect. That means the circle got displaced at north direction.

The displacement directions are always the same, no matter how often I tried that. I made all tests by using the World Editor though, so its probably related to some weird testing constant.

What's the reason for this weird behaviour?
I just want to create circles at fix locations

Thanks in advance!
Eikonium

 

[Xonok]

The reason is that your circle has a pathing map and it's snapping that to the grid.
Units can have very accurate positions, but pathing maps can not due to the way they are handled, so any unit(building) that has a pathing map needs to obey some more strict rules.

 

[Eikonium]

Ah, I see.
Sadly, I need very accurate positions for the circles.
Is there a way to ensure that?

 

[Xonok]

Don't use pathing maps for them in that case. Then they will effectively be units(maybe immobile units, but still).

 

[Eikonium]

Ah, now I got it. I can set the units Pathing map in one of the the object editor fields.
Thanks for your help!

 

[wcity]

why not put them in there already so no need to move or trigger?

 

[Eikonium]

These circles are traps in my map, so they are placed by the players at some pre-defined destinations during the game. It is important that these traps are not in place at the beginning of the game