Heroes with building-like pathing

[twelveoclock]

I'm making a td
one of the races in the td has all the towers as heroes

problem: even though i check "is a building" on the hero, it doesn't lock to the grid like an ordinary building

I also opened up Blizzard's TD, which has hero towers, but it didn't help. Blizzard's TD's hero towers aren't actually hero. (the building looks like its based off of archmage but it doesn't have the regular hero stats)

 

[Mechanical Man]

Just base heros from buildings.

 

[Teh_Ephy]

What Mechanical Man probably means is that the towers are probably just buildings made to look like heroes. It's possible to change the model of almost anything in WC3 (units, doodads, even terrain)

 

[twelveoclock]

i'm not trying to get them to look like heroes; i'm trying to make them heroes that lock to the grid and have square pathing.

 

[Teh_Ephy]

Those would be buildings. Unless you mean actual heroes with learnable abilities and stats. No way to place them like buildings in that case, but give them 0 movement speed.

 

[Violat3r]

Well yea, thats exactly whats gonna happen. I am making a wintermaul type right now, and thats how i do it. I use a building as the base then change its model to that of a specific Hero, that way it keeps its square map-path, just uses the model o specify it to. So first, take a random building that has the square dimensions u want, then change the model to w/e hero model you want. You may then have to do some size adjustments, but thats simple. So good Luck!

 

[PurplePoot]

Make a hero, then go to Stats - Is a Building and set it to true, then go crazy.

 

[Teh_Ephy]

Make a hero, then go to Stats - Is a Building and set it to true, then go crazy.

Wait for it...

problem: even though i check "is a building" on the hero, it doesn't lock to the grid like an ordinary building

Somebody's missing something important here.

 

[Parrothead]

We are missing ground texture?

 

[iron_warrior]

Make a hero, then go to Stats - Is a Building and set it to true, then go crazy.

/backhand.

No way on earth that works.


I'm pretty sure it's not possible to have Str/Agil/Int and have it lock to the grid.

5 second later edit

Wait! You can, however, have a unit build a normal, "dummy building" that looks exactly like a hero, on a grid, then when it's finished replace it with your hero that has the same collision size through a trigger. Should work.

 

[PurplePoot]

Somebody's missing something important here.

Hrm, odd, I just inferred what I said off Blizzard TD. Never noticed that quote, either. Haha. /facepalm

 

[Deleted member 139377]

heres an easy thing.. like most tds and mauls... all the units ar ebased off something like a gaurd tower.. tkae the daurd tower.. and jsut change its model and the stats you need.. BAM END OF STORY.

 

[Just_Spectating]

sorry Halak but Mechanical man suggested that the 2nd post.