How do I make buildable walls (horizontal, vertical and diagonal)

[Tyronidas]

Hi everyone,
I would like to have a worker build different walls and gates.
Unfortunately, I can't quite cope with it so far. It would be desirable, e.g. in the maps Infection_Attack or Zombie_Defense.

I would like the walls and gates to be buildable at least horizontally and vertically. Possibly also diagonally for the walls, but that would not be important.
Although I manage to create the walls in all the desired directions (pathing) but they are all vertical (optically). The next question is how do I make the gates passable, i.e. open and close.

Can someone help me there?
Thank you so far.

 

[Cheshire]

Although I manage to create the walls in all the desired directions (pathing) but they are all vertical (optically)

you could just upload a rotated version of the model and use that for the horizontal wall.

The next question is how do I make the gates passable, i.e. open and close.

one way to do this: use the gate doodads that can already do this. to make them buildable - create a dummy gate building - whenever a gate building finishes being constructed, remove it and create an identical gate doodad in it's place.

you might need to work a little more if you want this to behave like an owned building and not like a neutral doodad. maybe hide the dummy unit rather than removing it and check for a gate doodad occupying the same space or something....

 

[Halithor]

On gates, I wrote a gate system in Wurst that handles preventing closing if there are nearby enemies, the habit of gates being moved if units are under it, and player selection. Find the code in my repo here. Even if you're not implementing your map in Wurst, you can use it as a reference for how gate triggers could be done.

 

[Tyronidas]

Find the code in my repo here.

Unfortunately the link does not exist...

 

[Halithor]

I had the file marked as private. It is now public. The same link will now work.