[General] How to make it so you can stack buildings?

[sethmachine]

Hi,

What do I need to change so I can put buildings anywhere in the editor, including stacked on top of each other?

 

[Dawn]

You can stack it as doodads with the building model but you can never stack a unit exactly on top of another.

 

[Meticulous]

Set Pathing - Collision Size to 0 and Pathing - Pathing Map to None in the object editor.

 

[sethmachine]

Set Pathing - Collision Size to 0 and Pathing - Pathing Map to None in the object editor.

That does not work for me, as it still wants the buildings some distance away from each other.

 

[Meticulous]

That does not work for me, as it still wants the buildings some distance away from each other.

It still won't let you build on top of another unit with collision, unless that building can be built on like a gold mine. But in that case the unit you build on it will replace the unit being built on until it's destroyed.

 

[IcemanBo]

exclude now if you can make it or not, but what is the sense of it?

You would not be able to select the building you want, if there are more than one.

Why not using upgrades or something like this?

 

[edo494]

you can create the building via triggers, then set its pathing off and move it into the building you want using SetUnitX and SetUnitY custom scripts(not sure if SetUnitPosition would work)

 

[Severalser]

In the object editor you can see the collision size, normaly it is 4x4 or 8x8 but you just change te path size to the path of some object in scenario with not collision, mushrooms maybe

 

[Veritas 117]

In the Object Editor look at Pathing - placement requires and you can untick buildable. Also there is a place in Stats - Can be built on, and Stats - Can build on. Set these to true for all the buildings you want on top of each other. Make sure they have their Pathing map set to None also.

 

[Xonok]

Also, for the sake of information, it is very useful to look at ("Can be built on" and "Can build on" fields):
1. A gold mine
2. A haunted gold mine
3. Any normal building

Those should tell what it takes to make buildings stack.

 

[Meticulous]

To reiterate:

It still won't let you build on top of another unit with collision, unless that building can be built on like a gold mine. But in that case the unit you build on it will replace the unit being built on until it's destroyed.

If you use the "Can build on/Be built on" fields, the built-on unit will replace the base unit. You won't be able to see or select it until the built-on unit is destroyed, just like a haunted/entangled gold mine.