Directions

[Paillan]

S I am working on a new map, in which you can create this big arrows on the floor (buildings) and whenever a unit enters in contact with them, they will walk towards the direction the arrow is pointing, up to the limit of the map if they don't step in another arrow. So far, I have managed to:

1. Rotate an arrow

But I have trouble setting up the point for the direction as well as getting exactly the units I want, although I managed to somewhat make the second point by using an aura, although it wouldn't work out with more than one arrow, which is useless to me.

Any ideas on how to do this?

 

[Pinzu]

How accurate do you need it to be? What happens if something is in the way?

determine the X and Y borders of the map and issue the unit to go to that coordinate. you will have the unit's current coordinate and the matching border. So for example if the arrow points East you'd use the maps highest X value and he units current y value. Does this make sense?

 

[Chaosy]

Can't you do something like:

location1 = location of your arrow
locaiton2 = location1 offset by 99999 towards angle of arrow
order your unit to move to location2

 

[Paillan]

How accurate do you need it to be? What happens if something is in the way?

determine the X and Y borders of the map and issue the unit to go to that coordinate. you will have the unit's current coordinate and the matching border. So for example if the arrow points East you'd use the maps highest X value and he units current y value. Does this make sense?

Well, there's a direction for each angle of a circle, so there's 360 directions. Although to be honest I think I will break that down to 8 (north, south, east, west, north-east, north-west, south-east, south-west)

Well, that solves one problem I guess.

Can't you do something like:

location1 = location of your arrow
locaiton2 = location1 offset by 99999 towards angle of arrow
order your unit to move to location2

The problem is that since the arrows aren't originally in the map, but user created, It's difficult to detect them. I did use this and the units that entered the arrow couldn't move, but that was probably because of the aura.

 

[Pinzu]

Can't you do something like:

location1 = location of your arrow
locaiton2 = location1 offset by 99999 towards angle of arrow
order your unit to move to location2

Ah yes this should be easier to do if the issue order outside map bounds doesn't mess things up.

 

[Paillan]

Ah yes this should be easier to do if the issue order outside map bounds doesn't mess things up.

And order outside map mess things, at least when I tried.

 

[Chaosy]

There is a way to get max X of a map, so it's not a big deal.

 

[Paillan]

There is a way to get max X of a map, so it's not a big deal.

Really? how?

 

[Chaosy]

• (Life of (Triggering unit)) Greater than or equal to (Max X of (Playable map area))

Which means you'd make the offset max X of region - x of unit.

 

[Paillan]

• (Life of (Triggering unit)) Greater than or equal to (Max X of (Playable map area))

Which means you'd make the offset max X of region - x of unit.

life of unit? I think I got lost xd

 

[Chaosy]

the other half obviously.

 

[Paillan]

the other half obviously.

Oh okay. I thought so. The only thing left is to properly detect the arrow.
Okay so I found a way, the only thing missing is that it works passively, but heck, thanks guys.