[Trigger] How do I "grow" a lootable plant?

[Serefkana]

I want to make a growable plant, like a crop(example would be Werewolf:transylvannia farming).

Would it work to just destroy the building(plant) once it is finished building(growing), and use a trigger to replace it with an item that has the same model(but now lootable)?

Or is there a better way to do it?

 

[Soga-]

What's not simple about swapping a building with an item of the same model?

 

[Meticulous]

Never played the map you referenced, so could you explain a little further what you need? Just a building that becomes an item after a period of time?

 

[Serefkana]

pretty much

 

[neavea]

in Transylvania it was a unit (with the locust ability so its unselectable) and a gen timer. When the unit died replace it with another unit which is the "older version" of the plant. Keep doing it to where you get your final "growing" phase and then when that final version of the unit dies, create an item in its place.

 

[Serefkana]

K thanks.

 

[neavea]

Sorry I made a mistake there...

I am not sure if the locust ability (i havent actually tested it out) makes units un-selectable... I know that it hides the health bars though!

If you do not want to use units or locust ability doesnt make units un-selectable, then you could make it a destructible and with a separate trigger where it picks all destructible of that type and set their health to (current health - 1) and then with another trigger you set the event so that when that destructible dies you create a new "older version" destructible and etc...

Basically like the above post just you use destructibles instead of units and you set their life (in seconds) to their health.

This way actually might be better to because you will avoid seeing it as a unit on the minimap owned by someone and instead like a little colorful dot depending on the color of the plant...

 

[Meticulous]

You can hide a unit-type's minimap icons in the object editor.

 

[neavea]

but if it were a doodad then it would show up as a plant on the minimap which might benefit him

 

[Saishy]

locust makes it unselectable.

 

[neavea]

ok then you can use the unit and the destructible way... Either way!

(I would then use the unit way cuz it would leak less and gen timers are a hell of a lot less complicated)

 

[wolfman]

Just make it a building and when construction is finished kill the building and make an item with the same model at the position of the building. Also i dont think that the plants in werewolf had locust, i remember being able to select them when they were being made but idk. And just to clarify locust makes a unit invulnerable and unselectable.

 

[neavea]

why building though?!? You cant change the model during construction (dont you want different models for different phases?)

 

[wolfman]

Well in werewolf i think that the model just gets bigger as it goes, but i guess that you could use units and just replace them a bunch of times, but that would require making alot of units and alot of triggers, or at least one long trigger

 

[neavea]

ohhhh I see...

Well it depends for what he is doing i guess... if he is indeed just making them bigger and bigger then the building with locust ability would be easiest. However if you are using multiple models my way is best...

 

[Livirus]

Hmm, maybe you could aslo change the scale while it's growing?

 

[neavea]

ohhh!!! that gives me an idea!!!

instead of construction do upgrade! Yes you would have to make multiple unit but its less triggering because while it upgrades the scale grows (say the first version has a scale of .01 then in like 5 minutes it will grow from that to 2... it will look so cool because its a continues scale change!)

hehehe... that is so dang spiffy!

 

[wolfman]

spiffy indeed. lol
Yeah if you wanted to change scale def do thru trigs because the model prolly doesnt have a birth animation (even one that just gets bigger) since its a doodad, so while its building it would just sit there and not change in size

 

[neavea]

or you can do an upgrade and it will grow in scale to match the new scale instead of use the birth animation (because there isnt one)...

I have used this before but not for this kind of system...

 

[Serefkana]

Hmm...interesting idea, i'll have to try that out. Thanks^.^

 

[wolfman]

You could also use morph abilities like bear form and destroyer form. Im pretty sure that you will still have to make a bunch of units that get bigger and bigger either way tho.

 

[Element of Water]

Just to clarify - locust doesn't make units entirely invulnerable - some AOE spells and damage via triggers can still target them. And about your trigger - make the units grow slowly with triggers (there is a way of changing the unit's size with triggers, not sure what it is in GUI, but I know it's SetUnitScale in Jass), then when it has reached max size, replace it with an item - simple.

 

[Saishy]

Just to clarify - locust doesn't make units entirely invulnerable - some AOE spells and damage via triggers can still target them. And about your trigger - make the units grow slowly with triggers (there is a way of changing the unit's size with triggers, not sure what it is in GUI, but I know it's SetUnitScale in Jass), then when it has reached max size, replace it with an item - simple.

The unit is invulnerable, since they get the invulnerable description and I never see in my life a locust unit from the locust spell be destroyed.

 

[Element of Water]

Invulnerable description?

 

[Saishy]

Invulnerable description?

In armor.

 

[Element of Water]

What do you mean in armour? What armour? What description? Please explain.

 

[Saishy]

What do you mean in armour? What armour? What description? Please explain.

When your unit become invulnerable, instead of a armor number you get "Invulnerable" in red.

 

[Element of Water]

Yeah - but how does that apply to locusts? Since you can't select them you can't see that anyway, so how do you know?

 

[Yixx]

For the size: You can also trigger it!
Every X secs of the game
Pick every unit in PlantGrowGroup and do
loop - Actions
Animation - Change unit size

IDK how to make it grow steadily, but that should do it, and that way you can check easily if it is big enough,,
I would tri 0.2 secs maybe,, or if you want it to look good, 0.03 secs, that is so fast, you cant see it grow with pauses,, so it will look really smooth,,
And of course check if the group is empty, and turn off the trigger if so,,

 

[wolfman]

select via trigger? And yes they are invul. If you put some units that have locust nobody will auto attack them cuz they are invul...