[General] How to make a Townhall for a Custome Race

[Wasabee]

Custom Townhall is not recognized

I'm making a custom race where one is a Naga race.
When I tested my map (I was excited) this message in the screen shot is shown :
"You will be revealed to your opponents unless you build a Tree of Life.

I've use a trigger to replace the Tree of Life with a Shrine of the Sea.
I've already made a map which also replaces the 4 original race with a custom race but this is the first I've encountered this problem?

Any help would be appreciated guys. Thank you!

 

[Nichilus]

I think melee AI doesn't take custom town halls into account.
Anyway, make sure the building is a town hall - in the "Stats - Unit Classification" field check "Town Hall".

If problems persist even after the building is checked as Town Hall, then I'm afraid you will need to use a custom victory/defeat conditions.

 

[Wietlol]

The problem is simple but you will need some knowledge of WC3 modding/mapping to actually know that (no offense)

Go to the Terrain Editor and open Advanced -> Gameplay Constants.
Way at the bottom there is something like Techtree - Town Halls. It contains an array of buildings (units) that represent a town hall. Add your custom town hall to that and it should be fixed.

I found it while I was searching to make custom heroes which also have to be registered as a hero in one of those fields.

 

[Wasabee]

I've already know about this but still it still shows. I've already made an altered melee but I can't make it work this time.

 

[Wietlol]

Could you upload the map?
There are a few things that could be causing this problem but Ill have to see your map then.

 

[Wietlol]

Sorry but that is the wrong map -_-
I want the one with the Shrine of the Sea

 

[Wasabee]

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/pastebin.php?id=58nn7p


ohh sorry here it is.

 

[Wietlol]

Hmm...
I actually got no clue either man.

If you are not going to use the original Night Elf race with the Naga race, you can use the original Tree of Life and edit all values like models, unit trained, abilities etc and you have your town hall...

The last time that I made a melee map with custom races was long ago. But I do remember something of not being able to have a town hall with the race naga. If you change the race of the Shrine of the Sea to Night Elf, it could be working but I am not really sure.

Still my best guess is to just modify the original Tree of Life.

 

[Wasabee]

The first map in may pastebin the Illidari race is similar to the Naga. I just don't have a clue why it doesn't work in this map. Maybe some sort of a bug or something.

 

[VeljkoM]

The thing is the Melee Victory Conditions only accept the 4 main buildings, no exceptions. The " Advanced -> Gameplay Constants" effects many things except for that one issue you encountered. I am wiling to bet that first time you have either edited melee buildings or removed melee victory conditions.

As for solution I suggest you use custom race systems. Hive Version that uses Dialog Buttons, or Wc3c version that uses handicap% to select race. I prefer Hive system but both should work no problem and are invaluable when making proper altered melee maps. If you use them remember to credit creators.

 

[Wasabee]

Thank you for your suggestions.

 

[Map Designer]

I had this issue once and I dont know how i solved it. I think for me it doesnt show in the beginning but, when first replaced town is destroyed, the message come back even if I built another naga thing.

so what I did, I think, is go object editor, in the naga castle, and chose
Techtree- equivalents: Tree of Life.

That should treat the naga castle just like it treats tree of life

i got this idea from when I was basing an upgrade on the troll berserker upgrade, and I saw this in the berserk ability
berserker and head hunter are equivalents

Anyway I cant remember if this Has actually solved the issue, but I think it did. But I havent played naga and lost my main twon hall in a while

so if you tried this solution, test 2 things

1 when you first replace it, in the beginning, does message apear.
2 if it did not appear, destroy your town, and message should appear. when it appears, build another one and see, does it fade or persist? if it faded, then all should be good I guess?

 

[Wasabee]

I also did this to my other map and in that map it the custom townhall even if it's destroyed it works.

 

[Map Designer]

and in this map, it doesn't still? or does it work?
+, maybe you also want to make tree of life equivalent to naga (though not sure this matters)