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[Arth99]

I'm making a strategic map with key materials like:

- Ore
- Leather
- Magic Runes

- Ore comes from mining rocks. There are 3 types of ore.
- Leather comes from killing beasts. 2 types of leather.
- Magic runes come from building special buildings that generate random runes over time. 4 types of runes.

I have no idea on how to put these into my map.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Use a Multiboard,
https://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/general-mapping-tutorials-278/all-about-multiboards-84942/
https://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/trigger-gui-editor-tutorials-279/multiboards-6402/

 

[Arth99]

But I want these resources to be used to create units e.g.
- A footman may cost 100 gold, 20 iron ore, and 1 food
- A rifleman may cost 160 gold, 50 soft leather, 10 iron ore and 1 food

 

[Dr Super Good]

Warcraft III only supports 2 resources (gold and lumber). It also supports food but that behaves differently.

Any additional resources have to be emulated using triggers backed with tables of data (eg containing a mapping of costs to unit types).

You could also move to StarCraft II where by default 4 resources are supported (not including population resource which together makes 5).

 

[InfernalTater]

Arth99, I'm currently making a multi-resource system (I'm working on dozens of different things, so it will be a while before I finish it).
I'm not going to give you my entire system, but I'll give you a simple version of it when I'm done.