[Trigger] Help with my map

[Menace]

Ok i am making a map and i need to know how to put like a timer at the top of the map *time until you win* i know this is probably a noob question but i need help im new to making maps

 

[theoutsider38]

• Timer
  • Events
    • Time - Elapsed game time is 0.01 seconds
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Countdown Timer - Start TimetoWin as a One-shot timer that will expire in 600.00 seconds
    • Countdown Timer - Create a timer window for (Last started timer) with title Time untill you win
    • Countdown Timer - Show (Last created timer window)

Note: Timer windows will not function if the Event is Map Initialization.

 

[Menace]

• Timer
  • Events
    • Time - Elapsed game time is 0.01 seconds
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Countdown Timer - Start TimetoWin as a One-shot timer that will expire in 600.00 seconds
    • Countdown Timer - Create a timer window for (Last started timer) with title Time untill you win
    • Countdown Timer - Show (Last created timer window)

Note: Timer windows will not function if the Event is Map Initialization.

Ty What do u mean by the timer window will not function if the event is map initilized

 

[GhostWolf]

What he means is if you put the event "Map Installizion" (damn need to learn how to type it ^^) it won't show the timer in your map so make it based on something else (time, unit dies, or what ever).

 

[Wraithwynd]

Ty What do u mean by the timer window will not function if the event is map initilized

There are several functions that one can not do at Map Initialization. Timer windows is one of them. I believe that Leader Boards, dialog boxes and some parts of cinematic actions (sounds?), and picking destructibles cannot have the event as Map Initialization. I'm certain there are others I just cannot think of them right now.

My personal rule of thumb is to spread things out over a couple three triggers, using map initialization to set variables, set sky, fog, environmental stuff, set resources, team alliances, and other things along those lines. Considering that most of the maps I have made have had a short cinematic sequence at the beginning a lot of my spawning events are after the cinematic sequence.

Ususally folk trigger stuff to something like:

• Time - Elapsed game time is 0.05 seconds

To start timers, cinematics, leaderboards, dialog boxes, blah.

 

[Menace]

Ok i hav one more question on my map when the game starts i cant get rid of the headquarters and workers how do u do this plz help oh and how do u edit the screen that u wait for people to join your games on like Ex team 1 humans team 2 vampires that screen

 

[GhostWolf]

For the bases/workers remove the default trigger - Initialization.
By the second question you mean how to change group names ?
If yes its this way - Scenario -> Force Properties -> Use Custom Forces -> Add Force -> Drag the players to whatever force you want them to be.
You can also Rename Force there.

 

[Menace]

ok ty


i hav 1 more trigger question when a certain guy gets killed i want it to say on the screen *name got killed*


P.S. do any of u guys hav a model that has one of those villager guys with a axe in his hand my gam is about surviving from a mass killer

 

[Just_Spectating]

the event would be Unit - Generic Unit event - A unit dies
the condition Unit -type of (triggering unit) = (the unit)
the action Game - Display for all players - String(name of owner of triggering unit) + has been killed!

and you could download an axe model from here and attach it to your unit

 

[Menace]

Ok i hav 1 more questiion then i can finally release my map how can i get bundles of wood and coins to spawn randomly on the map


plz help me with this

 

[GhostWolf]

• Item - Create Your_Item at (Random point in (Playable map area))

 

[Menace]

ok ty ghost wolf ok im having a problem with my map i cant get the teams to start out allied when the game starts they all kill eachother plz help

 

[Just_Spectating]

go to the player setting player properties to move everyone on their teams and put a check on the "Allies" part or w.e

 

[GhostWolf]

Scenario -> Force Properties -> Use Custom Forces -> Add Force -> Drag the players to whatever force you want them to be.
You can also Rename Force there.

Already told you how to do that...

 

[Menace]

If yes its this way - Scenario -> Force Properties -> Use Custom Forces -> Add Force -> Drag the players to whatever force you want them to be.
You can also Rename Force there.

Yes i did that but they still kill eachother

 

[GhostWolf]

Did you make them ALLIES ? .....

 

[Menace]

its not working i dunno wat the problem is i went to forces and put them all allied but they still kill eachother

 

[GhostWolf]

Can you upload your map ?

 

[Just_Spectating]

did you check fixed player settings?

 

[GhostWolf]

I think the only thing fixed-player settings does, is making the players not able to change alliances and thus have nothing to do with the starting alliances.