[Trigger] How to adavance threw the age

[Gallin]

well i was wondering if its possible for once a tihng is upgraded all the buildings and all the works become the next age of buildings for example

tribal age

then

medievil age
or sometihng like that

 

[NoobMapmaker]

Try making a mod version of the berserker ability? those auto upgrade once the required upgrade is finished

 

[Gallin]

is there another way of doing it i would have do do this almost 10 times and like 7 buildings +units each time which would be alot of abilities

 

[GhostWolf]

Simply loop between all the player's buildings and upgrade them ? (you can either replace or possibly add an upgrade ability that takes like 1 second).

 

[Eccho]

Well you dont really need to use any extra abilities for it.
(somehow the thing Im going to post is an advance from GhostWolfs suggestion)

Well this is what I had in mind
I suppose this is made for a mupltiplayer map, thus explaining why some of my variables consist arrays (which they normally doesnt have to).

Also note, that the unit-types stored in the variables, in the initialization trigger, are just examples

• Initialization
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set Count = (Count + 1)
    • Set FirstAgeUnitTypes[Count] = Lumber Mill
    • Set SecondAgeUnitTypes[Count] = Blacksmith
    • Set ThirdAgeUnitTypes[Count] = Workshop
    • Set Count = (Count + 1)
    • Set FirstAgeUnitTypes[Count] = Scout Tower
    • Set SecondAgeUnitTypes[Count] = Guard Tower
    • Set ThirdAgeUnitTypes[Count] = Cannon Tower
    • Set Count = (Count + 1)
    • Set FirstAgeUnitTypes[Count] = Barracks
    • Set SecondAgeUnitTypes[Count] = High Elven Barracks
    • Set ThirdAgeUnitTypes[Count] = Arcane Sanctum
    • Player Group - Pick every player in (All players) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Set SpecificAge[(Player number of (Picked player))] = 1

• PlayerAdvancing
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Finishes an upgrade
  • Conditions
    • Or - Any (Conditions) are true
      • Conditions
        • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Town Hall
        • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Keep
        • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Castle
  • Actions
    • Set SpecificAge[(Player number of (Owner of (Triggering unit)))] = (SpecificAge[(Player number of (Owner of (Triggering unit)))] + 1)
    • Set AdvanceEverything = (Units owned by (Owner of (Triggering unit)) matching ((((Matching unit) is A structure) Equal to True) and (((Matching unit) is alive) Equal to True)))
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in AdvanceEverything and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • For each (Integer A) from 1 to Count, do (Actions)
          • Loop - Actions
            • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
              • If - Conditions
                • SpecificAge[(Player number of (Owner of (Triggering unit)))] Equal to 2
                • (Unit-type of (Picked unit)) Equal to FirstAgeUnitTypes[(Integer A)]
              • Then - Actions
                • Unit - Replace (Picked unit) with a SecondAgeUnitTypes[(Integer A)] using The old unit's relative life and mana
              • Else - Actions
                • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
                  • If - Conditions
                    • SpecificAge[(Player number of (Owner of (Triggering unit)))] Equal to 3
                    • (Unit-type of (Picked unit)) Equal to SecondAgeUnitTypes[(Integer A)]
                  • Then - Actions
                    • Unit - Replace (Picked unit) with a ThirdAgeUnitTypes[(Integer A)] using The old unit's relative life and mana
                  • Else - Actions
    • Custom script: call DestroyGroup( udg_AdvanceEverything )

Well this was what I had in mind. If you have any questions regarding this, post it back here

And it should work, I tested it myself recently you know (100%)
/Regards =)

 

[NoobMapmaker]

I prefer to stay away from making triggers if there is another way in the editor that can do the same thing, it prevents bugs and possible lags. Copy/Pasting abilities and changing their names aren't "hard" work, but thats my oppinion.

 

[Eccho]

hm, on the contrary, abilities made by blizzard actually leaks alittle bit.
And I made this because he asked someone to, since the other ways would take much more time to edit. Unit editor+ability editor+upgrade editor is not very "fast-friendly" if you compare to triggering (thats my opinion). Besides my trigger does not really leak more than (integer A) and condition leakage (very small leaks I would say?)

Oh and yes, I understand your perspective.
No offensive thoughts though ._. I just gave him a possible solution

 

[GhostWolf]

hm, on the contrary, abilities made by blizzard actually leaks alittle bit.

Why the hell do you think that ? Not mentioning blizzard are pretty good at what they do, you can't even see the codes they used...

 

[Eccho]

Actually i'm quoting you on that comment GhostWolf.

In another thread of which I have been writing in too, you say that you preferred to trigger to damage an unit every x seconds, instead of making a dummy ability and dummy unit doing it.
And as well, you said that blizzards abilities were stupid

Maybe I've understood it wrong then... but cursing wont do it better

 

[NoobMapmaker]

How can triggers be more efficient then the abilities that have been writen by blizzard staff, which im 100% sure has a better understanding of the raw codes than any none-staff map makers. The abilities are only ineffecient because they have limitations not because of leaks.

 

[GhostWolf]

Actually i'm quoting you on that comment GhostWolf.

In another thread of which I have been writing in too, you say that you preferred to trigger to damage an unit every x seconds, instead of making a dummy ability and dummy unit doing it.
And as well, you said that blizzards abilities were stupid

Maybe I've understood it wrong then... but cursing wont do it better

I do not remember saying that, but even if I didn't, its right.
They are not stupid because they leak, they are stupid because they are extremely limited (unless it was some other thing that had to do with where I said it).

And if I offended you I'm sorry, it wasn't supposed to offend in any way.

And on a side note, I'm pretty sure they (original skills) were created with C++ and not with Jass, allowing blizzard to use much better codes.

How can triggers be more efficient then the abilities that have been writen by blizzard staff, which im 100% sure has a better understanding of the raw codes than any none-staff map makers. The abilities are only ineffecient because they have limitations not because of leaks.

This has nothing to do with rawcodes.
I agree about the crappy limits. I think that as a big and respected company, they could at least not give us many not working things and many missing things.