[General] Make unit destroy destructibles it walks past?

[FeelMyRash]

Is it possible to make a unit destroy destructibles (trees, houses, etc.) that it walks past?

I tried to use a Permanent Immolation that targets destructibles but that didn't work...

I've seen it done Tunnels but I've only got a vague Idea of how they might've done it in there.

Also, will this cause lag or any other issues? I'm not 100% sure but Tunnels used to make me lag like crazy after the unit in question was trained.

 

[Remixer]

I would imagine that the most reliable way to do it is triggering a periodic timer that groups destructibles in range and simply kills them.

 

[Chaosium]

There aren't that many abilities that can hit trees, one of the is death and decay, but you'd need to cast it regularly to your unit's position (and make it not affect anything else), but at this point might as well destroy the trees via triggers anyway

 

[ThompZon]

Note that when getting destructible in an area, it's to the destructible's center point. This means if you use too small radius, you cannot hit big destructibles (such as houses because its "center point" is too far away) while you hit the barrels that are "super far" away.

It's possible to counteract this with slightly more complex triggers though.

Also: Abilities typically handles this without you having to deal with it. This is mostly an issue if you have both big and small destructibles that you want to get (and destroy) with triggers.

 

[Uncle]

Here's a map I threw together, it's lacking a lot but shows off an attempt at something cool.

The system uses an array of Rows which each contain an array of Tiles (the standard "Large Grid" boxes) which each contain "all" nearby Destructibles. It currently only works with a reasonable search Radius like 256.00 but that's just because I didn't bother making it more dynamic.

There's a chance it's even less efficient than just relying on Pick Every Destructible, I'm not sure... I was experiencing occasional fps drops but it seemed more like a garbage collection problem than anything else. Also, the test map is very small which is likely helping a lot.