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[victorsuazo1991]

Hello, I need help with a map, in which I am creating waves of enemies. It happens that too many creeps accumulate to the point that it becomes impossible to play ... is there any way to put a limit of units for each wave? that is to say if every one minute I create 10 creeps, that attack a specific zone, having 40 creeps on the map, they will no longer be produced?

 

[~El]

Here's a very trivial example of how you could do this. The condition is the primary part.

• Melee Initialization
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.10 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
    • (Number of units in (Units in (Playable map area) matching ((Unit-type of (Matching unit)) Equal to Rifleman))) Less than 10
  • Actions
    • Unit - Create 1 Rifleman for Player 2 (Blue) at (Center of (Playable map area)) facing Default building facing degrees

 

[Dr Super Good]

Hello, I need help with a map, in which I am creating waves of enemies. It happens that too many creeps accumulate to the point that it becomes impossible to play ... is there any way to put a limit of units for each wave? that is to say if every one minute I create 10 creeps, that attack a specific zone, having 40 creeps on the map, they will no longer be produced?

Yes there is a way.

Most simple would be to use food. One can then have a conditional test in the spawn trigger to check if current food is less than the produced food and only if so create the units.

Instead of food, like in the case that already has another use, one could use an integer variable.

Here's a very trivial example of how you could do this. The condition is the primary part.

Leaks a group, so not a good idea to use that trigger.

 

[victorsuazo1991]

Here's a very trivial example of how you could do this. The condition is the primary part.

• Melee Initialization
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.10 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
    • (Number of units in (Units in (Playable map area) matching ((Unit-type of (Matching unit)) Equal to Rifleman))) Less than 10
  • Actions
    • Unit - Create 1 Rifleman for Player 2 (Blue) at (Center of (Playable map area)) facing Default building facing degrees

Is that an integer condition or multiple conditions?

 

[Tasyen]

integer
but I suggest that one, then the group object gets destroyed.

• Conditions
  • (Number of living Scharfschütze units owned by Player 1 (Red)) Less than 10

 

[Dr Super Good]

but I suggest that one, then the group object gets destroyed.

Problem is it leaks a handle ID due to the local declared local agent variable reference counter leak on return bug.

Here is the function showing the leak.

function CountLivingPlayerUnitsOfTypeId takes integer unitId,player whichPlayer returns integer
    local group g
    local integer matchedCount
    set g = CreateGroup()
    set bj_livingPlayerUnitsTypeId = unitId
    call GroupEnumUnitsOfPlayer(g, whichPlayer, filterLivingPlayerUnitsOfTypeId)
    set matchedCount = CountUnitsInGroup(g)
    call DestroyGroup(g)
    return matchedCount
endfunction

This may eventually be fixed but until then here is a leak free version.

function CountLivingPlayerUnitsOfTypeIdNoleak takes integer unitId,player whichPlayer returns integer
    local group g
    local integer matchedCount
    set g = CreateGroup()
    set bj_livingPlayerUnitsTypeId = unitId
    call GroupEnumUnitsOfPlayer(g, whichPlayer, filterLivingPlayerUnitsOfTypeId)
    set matchedCount = CountUnitsInGroup(g)
    call DestroyGroup(g)
    set g = null
    return matchedCount
endfunction

 

[Tasyen]

Actually there is a native doing the counting, but not ported to GUI.

constant native GetPlayerTypedUnitCount takes player whichPlayer, string unitName, boolean includeIncomplete, boolean includeUpgrades returns integer

one uses it that way

call GetPlayerTypedUnitCount (Player(0), UnitId2String('hfoo'),false,true)

 

[Dr Super Good]

one uses it that way

The native is not doing the counting in GUI as I posted above. If it was there would not be any problems.

Still the food method might be the most easy as long as food is not used for other things. Especially if interacting with many different unit types it would allow one to more simply regulate them.

 

[Tasyen]

yes, food would be indeed easy and good. One could even use a player State Event when using food to en/dis able the spawning timer/Trigger.