[General] how can i make Acolites to DRAIN WOOD?

[LadyMalwil]

i want to make acolites to get wood draining it from the tree with dark magic...

like this:

without destroying the tree, like wishp do...

theres any way to do it?

Thanks for reading, thanks for you time.

 

[ItachiTraitor]

I think if you give the Acolites the harvest lumber ability from the peasant and set the animation for it to the draining and to set it so it doesn't kill the tree, that might work.

 

[LadyMalwil]

if i do it, the acolite just hit the tree *punch*...

 

[ItachiTraitor]

You can't really use the harvesting in triggers, so that kinnda makes it hard, what you can do is to use the human harvesting, and then make the tree's hp 9999999999, and give the acoylite the dark magic animation.

The only problem is that I don't know what the command for the dark magic is, and once you get the wood you'll need to return it to yourself somehow using a Dummy Unit through triggers.

 

[Adiktuz]

its because the animation for the human lumber harvesting is attack... you should change it to whatever the animaiton name of the acolyte's harvesting is...

 

[LadyMalwil]

its because the animation for the human lumber harvesting is attack... you should change it to whatever the animaiton name of the acolyte's harvesting is...

how do you choce the anim?

and why human harvest? i dont want to destroy trees and wishp harvest isnt better for it?

 

[Pharaoh_]

Go to the ability Harvest Lumber (Wisp) and set the field "Art - Animation" to the animation name of the Acolyte's summon.

 

[LadyMalwil]

this is for animations like frost, acid bomb,
errr... holy light... fire ball.... not for model anim...

 

[millzy]

at the top where it says art - animation

is for animations like walk, stand,attack,spell ect

 

[Miss_Foxy]

Or you could allow trees to have 9999999 hp and somehow give them a regeneration rate.

 

[water_Knight]

if you are going to use the 99999999 hp tree method you would make a trigger to after say 5 mins set the trees to max health again.

 

[ItachiTraitor]

The thing is, if you use the wisp harvesting, your unit will instantly be in the position of the tree, and for other harvestings, you'll have to switch the animation to the dark magic animation which i've tryed and couldn't find the animation, but then after that you'll have to make a dummy unit that spawns at the position of your harvesting unit in order to recieve the lumber, make the dummy unit invisable with locust and invulerable.

Something like that, the dummy part is going to require triggering that I don't know since harvest doesn't seem to work for triggering.

 

[phoenixfire]

Go to the ability Harvest Lumber (Wisp) and set the field "Art - Animation" to the animation name of the Acolyte's summon.

What he said will work. I dont know why you'd choose the HP tree method, as this is the easiest way.

 

[ItachiTraitor]

Well yeah, but then there would only be one problem, your unit will teleport into the tree, unless you can fix that.

 

[phoenixfire]

No it wont, thats a wisp animation.

 

[LadyMalwil]

errr... i have others unit that must "kill"/cut down trees...
so i cant use 99999999 hp or hp regen, because of peon will never cut down a tree...

when i use wishp harvesting the acolite instantly teleport at tree position...

what can i do?

and algo animation name: "stand work gold" dont work

 

[phoenixfire]

They shouldnt teleport into the tree, it doesnt happen to me. You could make the acolytes deal no damage and give them a standard peasant work with a different animation, and then trigger resources.

 

[ItachiTraitor]

No it aint lol, trust me, i've tryed having the wisp lumber harvesting myself on a acoylite. =P

 

[LadyMalwil]

They shouldnt teleport into the tree, it doesnt happen to me. You could make the acolytes deal no damage and give them a standard peasant work with a different animation, and then trigger resources.

sample map? please?

 

[phoenixfire]

Sorry, dont have the editor installed right now. Just make the aclyte deal 0-0 or 1-1 damage and give them a custom Peasant Harvest Wood ability. Change the ability's animation to whatever one you want under Art - Animation. Then just make a trigger that counts how many acolytes you have on wood and gives you +x lumber every x seconds per acolyte. It shouldn't be that hard to do

 

[FailsWithTails]

The only flaw with the Peasant Harvest Wood fix is that the tree would still shake every time it was gathered from.

The cooldown and lumber can easily be made MUI using a hashtable. You'd need to give individual cooldowns to each of your Acolytes, otherwise people could abuse an "Every (cooldown) seconds" based trigger. You'd be better off using something like:

Event:
- Every 0.25 seconds
Action:
- Set a temporary real variable equal to the cooldown handle of the Acolyte handle in the hash
- If temporary real variable is greater than 0.00
- - Then save (temporary real variable - 0.25) as the cooldown handle of the Acolyte handle in the hash
- - Else give lumber to the player, save (cooldown) as the cooldown handle of the Acolyte handle in the hash, and display the green number.

In most cases, this trigger should be initially off, and it should use another trigger to turn it on the first time an Acolyte begins to use whatever dummy ability you adapt for harvesting.

I'm very interested in seeing if someone can come up with the "perfect" fix, as this is a skill I tried making months ago. I ended up designing a new skill altogether to make my life easier.