most effective way to make "mines" ?

[oxxo]

what is the most effective way to make mines?

for a map that has to deal with large numbers of units?

any comments appreciated but please only if you don't give bullshit advice.

 

[M4stah]

Just edit the following abilities to your wish(And thegoblin land mine unit)

Item Place golbing land mine
AOE damage upon death (Goblin mine)
Mine -exploding (Goblin land mine)

Good luck

 

[oxxo]

what does each one of the abilities do?

i can imagine what "damage upon death" does, but what does "mine - exploding" do?

where can i edit the specific units that trigger the mine? i want it to be only organic units.

 

[M4stah]

mine- exploding makes the mine explode when walked over.

In damage upon death you can edit the targets allowed, use that for organic only

 

[oxxo]

that causes the mine to detonate when anything walks over, but deal damage only to organics. thats not the effect i want. or is my conclusion false?

 

[M4stah]

1. First try if your conclusion is false
2. If it is correct(Which I suspect) you must make a complex tirgger ordering the mien to stop before exploding, but it would require you to check the unit triggering the ability, which cannot be tracked

 

[nerovesper]

which mine do you want? the one walked over then detonates or the one that activates when ordered to detonate?

 

[oxxo]

the one wich detonates when walked over

 

[Meticulous]

• Events
  • Time - Every .2 seconds of game time
• Conditions
• Actions
  • Set unitgroup = units of type (mine) matching unit is alive = true.
  • Unit Group - Pick every unit in unitgroup and do (Actions)
    • Set unitgroup2 = units within (mine detection range) of picked unit matching (conditions, organic etc.)
      • If (All conditions are true) Then do (then actions) Else do (else actions)
        • Conditions
          • Number of units in unitgroup2 not equal to 0
        • Actions
          • Unit - Order picked unit to cast fanofknivesdummyability
          • Unit - Add .1 second generic expiration timer to picked unit.

Insert anti-leak and clean up sloppiness where appropriate. I think I'm getting better at writing stuff in trigger tags, though. Saves the time required to open a map in editor

 

[oxxo]

thanks! i actually can see this working, gonna try it out.