[Trigger] Instant building

[devion]

Hey, I was wondering if anyone knows how to make construction instant with triggers?

Im trying to use something like this:

• instabuild
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Begins construction
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Set (Triggering unit) construction progress to 100%
    • Unit - Set life of (Triggering unit) to 100.00%

But i cant quite get it working :/ Ive seen this type of building done in some TD (cant remember which one).

Ideas?

 

[Huurka]

Triggering unit is the worker, right?

• BUILD FAST
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Begins construction
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Wait 0.01 seconds
    • Unit - Set (Constructing structure) construction progress to 100%
    • Unit - Set life of (Constructing structure) to 100.00%

Should work

 

[devion]

Nope, both triggering unit and constructing unit is the building.

 

[Huurka]

Well, did my trigger work or not?

Worked for me.

 

[devion]

Hm I got it working now even though i tried Constructing Unit earlier... Might be the Wait that did the trick Thanks

 

[Huurka]

You're most welcome.

 

[Kwah]

It was the wait I think. Also you should have tried setting to 99.99% as well.

 

[Dr Super Good]

techinacly via a timer system simlar to that used in a damage nulling system you could make it even faster to build buildings since TriggerSleepAction() only supports delays of atleast 0.1 seconds and usually as long as 0.2 or more at lowest.

 

[PurplePoot]

Lots of changes relating to an event don't behave very well when they are triggered on that event with no delay.

 

[Squiggy]

Instant building? Set the buildingtime to zero?

 

[Huurka]

Instant building? Set the buildingtime to zero?

Impossible, minimum is 1 second.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Hold shift while selecting the field to disable all limates.

Warning - may cause a crash if set to impossiable or buggy values like 0 or negitive numbers.

 

[Kwah]

Shift Enter can be useful. It has some issues though. For example my friend and I were having an ultimate hero competition. I had it so whenever my hero leveld up he gained something like 9999 stats. At level 3 his strenght became too high and somehow became a negative #. He then died.

Despite this Shift-Enter is an extremly great function.


I still think the minuim build time is one though.

 

[Dr Super Good]

somehow became a negative #.

Its called "This is a computer".

You obviously exceeded the maximum positive value that the integer number could store (2147483648 or more for 32 bit which WC3 uses) and thus it changed the sign bit to be negitave.

 

[Kwah]

True. I am looking forward to the new 64bit engines coming out eh?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Who ever hit that limate is using the game incorrectly, thus it is pointless to make one 64 bit.

 

[Kwah]

Nah, I am referring to computers in general. I realize that this is off-topic but hey. . .

Some new computers are coming out with 64bit processors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit

 

[devion]

The 0 build time is not what im after because I want to be able to toggle instant building with a trigger.

The suggested methods work, but the worker still stops for like a second before moving and building the next tower.

 

[Huurka]

Instant building? Set the buildingtime to zero?

It will take some more time than creating a GUI trigger.

 

[redmarine]

Try replacing the building when the construction begins. That is pretty quickly!

 

[Dr Super Good]

All modern processors support 64 bit if you have not relised, this includeds most P4s, all dual and quad cores from intel. Not sure about AMD.

Really, it is currently of no good use and only will lower speed and stability.

back on topic

Like I said, try using a timer for less delay, you can get up to pretty much next processing cycle it running via timmers which could be the shortes possiable time to fully complete a building (under 1 frame).

 

[Kwah]

64-bit is becoming more common though. It increases ability. Personnaly I don't own one. I am leaving the 64-bit disscusion to your discretion as you are right.

On topic. You Dr Super Good are without a doubt right. Use timers