How to make a unit never stop moving

[HelloFlighty]

What triggers can you use so that when a specific unit moves, let's say forward, it will not stop moving forward, it will continue forward until you tell it to change direction then it will continue forever in that direction also?

 

[Pyrogasm]

How should it interact with enemies?

 

[HelloFlighty]

How should it interact with enemies?

it's not supposed to, it has a custom ability so that it fires a laser in the direction it's facing, that's how it attacks

 

[Nowow]

How do you control it? WSAD/arrow keys/mouse?

If it's by mouse I'd create two triggers:

1. When the unit is issued an order at point, the trigger will save the point and run the second trigger. It will also disable the second trigger at the beginning so your unit will have only one movement trigger active on it.
2. Whenever the unit gets close to the point saved in the first trigger, calculate a new point further away from your unit and order it to go there.

This isn't perfect, and one cliff in the unit's way will change its direction, but it's a start.

 

[HelloFlighty]

How do you control it? WSAD/arrow keys/mouse?

If it's by mouse I'd create two triggers:

1. When the unit is issued an order at point, the trigger will save the point and run the second trigger. It will also disable the second trigger at the beginning so your unit will have only one movement trigger active on it.
2. Whenever the unit gets close to the point saved in the first trigger, calculate a new point further away from your unit and order it to go there.

This isn't perfect, and one cliff in the unit's way will change its direction, but it's a start.

Thank you, i was originally thinking something along the lines of having a region constantly infront of the unit, when the unit is issued an order targeting a point or object, the region moves to the position of the order until the unit enters the region then the first trigger kicks in and moves the region ahead of the unit again ordering the unit to follow the region, will this work?, i will try your idea first though

 

[HelloFlighty]

How do you control it? WSAD/arrow keys/mouse?

If it's by mouse I'd create two triggers:

1. When the unit is issued an order at point, the trigger will save the point and run the second trigger. It will also disable the second trigger at the beginning so your unit will have only one movement trigger active on it.
2. Whenever the unit gets close to the point saved in the first trigger, calculate a new point further away from your unit and order it to go there.

This isn't perfect, and one cliff in the unit's way will change its direction, but it's a start.

how do i make it so that when a unit reaches a point it chooses a new position further away but still inline with it's original course, blizzards Worm scenario does it perfectly but i do not know how to use their triggers with my own map.

 

[HelloFlighty]

basically i just want a unit that moves the same way the worm moves in worm war

 

[Pyrogasm]

• Events
  • Unit - A unit is issued an order targeting a unit
  • -------- Basically make nearly identical triggers for both types of orders --------
  • Unit - A unit is issued an order targeting a point
• Conditions
  • Unit type of (Triggering unit) equal to <your unit>
  • Or - Any Conditions
    • (Issued Order) equal to attack
    • (Issued Order) equal to move
    • (Issued Order) equal to smart
• Actions
  • If (All conditions) then (actions) else (actions)
    • If - Conditions
      • (Triggering unit) is in MoveGroup equal to false
    • Then - Actions
      • Unit Group - Add (Triggering Unit) to MoveGroup
    • Else - Actions
  • Set TempPoint1 = Position of (Triggering unit)
  • Set TempPoint2 = Target position of issued order
  • Hashtable - Save (Angle between TempPoint1 and TempPoint2) as MoveAngle of (Handle ID of (Triggering Unit)) in YourHashTable
  • -------- Might not have written that right, but store the angle to the target under the handle ID of the triggering unit in the hash table --------
  • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(TempPoint1)
  • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(TempPoint2)

• Events
  • Unit - A unit is issued an order with no target
• Conditions
  • Unit type of (Triggering unit) equal to <your unit>
  • Or - Any Conditions
    • (Issued Order) equal to stop
    • (Issued order) equal to holdposition
• Actions
  • Unit Group - Remove (Triggering Unit) from MoveGroup

• Events
  • Every 0.50 seconds of game-time
• Conditions
• Actions
  • Trigger - Turn off YourOnPointOrUnitOrderTriggers <gen>
  • Trigger - Turn off BothOfThem <gen>
  • Unit Group - Pick every unit in MoveGroup and do Actions
    • Loop - Actions
      • Set TempPoint1 = Position of (Picked Unit)
      • Set TempPoint2 = TempPoint1 offset by MOVE_OFFSET toward (Hashtable - Load MoveAngle of (Handle ID of (Picked Unit)) from YourHashTable) degrees)
      • Unit - Order (Picked Unit) to move to TempPoint2
      • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(TempPoint1)
      • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(TempPoint2)
  • Trigger - Turn on YourOnPointOrUnitOrderTriggers <gen>
  • Trigger - Turn on BothOfThem <gen>

• Events
  • Map Initialization
• Conditions
• Actions
  • Set YourHashTable = New Hashtable

 

[HelloFlighty]

• Events
  • Hashtable - Save (Angle between TempPoint1 and TempPoint2) as MoveAngle of (Handle ID of (Triggering Unit)) in YourHashTable

Sorry I'm not the best with triggers, this has me stumped. I don't know how to save data with hashtables :/ if you can give me a map with just that trigger alone then i'll copy it, literally just that hashtable line.

 

[Fruit Forest]

What triggers can you use so that when a specific unit moves, let's say forward, it will not stop moving forward, it will continue forward until you tell it to change direction then it will continue forever in that direction also?

Like this? It allows to avoid large scripts.

 

[HelloFlighty]

Like this? It allows to avoid large scripts.

Yes 1000% what i'm looking for, thank you

 

[Fruit Forest]

Yes 1000% what i'm looking for, thank you

The only problem is learn what is animation index count as Walk for each model. for example (priest walk animation has index 1)

 

[HelloFlighty]

The only problem is learn what is animation index count as Walk for each model. for example (priest walk animation has index 1)

i'm going to be using this for custom models that are flyers and their walk animation doesn't move anyway so it's okay