Homm style

[Volvox]

Me and my friend have been working on a warcraft 3 map with heroes of might and magic play style. For those who don't know, on the map, only a hero is displayed and he represents the entire army but when the fight starts, entire army appears. We are not fond with that exact way of unit control but if some1 has an idea on how to control 100-200 units at once, we'd love to hear it.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Real time or turn based?

For the units you could make only one unit represent a unit stack, but you will have to make it number x single unit strength via triggers.

 

[Volvox]

It must be real time without unit stacks. Basicaly, we are looking to select more than just 12 units, that is IMO one of the few flaws of w3.

 

[smily132]

In the Axis & allies maps for warcraft the commanders can control up to 150 units at once (err at least i think thats how much it is.)

If i had a guess it would be something like

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Finishes casting an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to command
  • Actions
    • Unit Group - Add all units of (Units within 1000.00 of (Position of (Casting unit)) matching ((Picked player) Equal to Player 1 (Red))) to unitgroup

Then have an ability that would order all the units to move somewhere when you used it. This is just my guess though

 

[Volvox]

Not, that's not good, it must be dynamic control of lots of units, you wouldn't even bother casting that shit, it takes too much time. We need something quick and easy.

 

[smily132]

They would stay in the Unit group though, and it wasn't really clear enough what exactly you wanted. You need to describe more things like that in the beginning

 

[Volvox]

Okay. Imagine that you double click an archer and 100 archers get selected. Now imagine that you shift+double click a footman and you have 100 archers and 100 footmen selected. You order them to attack-move and they form in lines as they would if there was only 12 of them. That's what we need. Unlimited selection.

 

[gavdaman88]

Smily's method is the closest you could get I think, even if its ages off you'd need to change the actual way the selection works in game as a whole, which would be pretty tricky if not impossible.

 

[Volvox]

Checked and impossible, the selection is not changeable. Thank you for trying to help, +rep to all.

 

[gavdaman88]

Good luck with your map, and don't forget to preview it in the map development section once it's getting partway through development!

 

[Volvox]

Thank you gavdaman, i'll upload as soon as we get it to beta stage.