How to make a Difficulty Selector in a Map

[Zergy]

Ok, so I’ve been studying the Dialogue Box Selector (Choices), and I want to implement a Difficulty Selector in my Warcraft 3 maps, similar to how Tunro does it.


My question is: how do I make the chosen difficulty actually affect the game through triggers? For example, if a player chooses Hard, how do I ensure the game is set to Hard?


Also, will this automatically apply to my JassCraft AI code, or do I need to adjust that separately?

 

[Uncle]

Editing Melee AI Difficulty with triggers (this is not about custom AI)

Hi everyone, I have known the Hive for a long time but only recently signed on. I noticed that there were discussions years ago asking about modifying melee AI with triggers, and from what I can tell the code was not shared. So here it is. This is part of a simple tutorial I made many years...

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So you can adjust the Easy, Medium, Hard, and Insane difficulties at runtime. After doing that you can run a different AI Script depending on the Difficulty, or maybe just reference some Variables in your existing AI script (I don't know how AI scripts work exactly, can you reference a Trigger Editor-variable inside of them?).

Anyway, I attached a map with a simple example of some basic AI that will have advantages depending on the difficulty.

In my example the Difficulty_Chosen integer variable will represent the Difficulty you've chosen. 0 = Easy, 1 = Medium, 2 = Hard, 3 = Insane. So you could reference this in your Triggers and possibly even your AI scripts. It's wise to use this Integer in combination with Array variables, which you can see me doing with the Gold, Lumber, and Handicap variables. That'll keep things organized and efficient.