Mouse Coordinates

[huntere15]

I'm making a TD shooter campaign and I was wondering how I would find the coordinates of the mouse? I'm mostly a GUI user so if it's in jass then can you explain how to implement it.

 

[TriggerHappy]

You can't, not without something like RtC. But then your map can't be played on B.NET.
The only other option would be trackables which are slow and extremely limited.

 

[huntere15]

Well it is a campaign so i guess i'll use Rtc

edit: so confusing I might just give up on this campaign

 

[blacksheepwalll]

how does the Dungeons and Dragons map work then
im pretty sure thats bnet hostable
and that uses left click to create units at mouse location

 

[Adiktuz]

how does the Dungeons and Dragons map work then
im pretty sure thats bnet hostable
and that uses left click to create units at mouse location

maybe they use invisible trackables spammed thru the whole map...

wait, they create units upon left click? do they use any spell?

if they use a spell, then theres nothing really hard about that...

 

[GhostThruster]

Yes, they probably used some dummy spell based on Carrion Swarm, or something. Do you notice that the cursor turns to a target when you want to create units?

 

[blacksheepwalll]

o yea i tried testing the map
when you click what unit you want to make
it selects a pointer unit
then you right click
so it just uses target point of issued order

 

[Sadalbari]

What you'll need:
- A Channel spell (search for channel if you don't know it) modified so it targets a point (with targetting image). Cooldown 0, etc.
- A dummy unit with that channel ability.
- A trigger that, whenever you need to target a point on the map, the dummy unit is selected and you use

• Game - Force Player 1 (Red) to press the key E

where E is the hotkey of the channel ability.
- Another trigger that does something when the channel ability is cast. You can use Target point of ability being cast to refer to the mouse coordinates.

Attached a demo. The trigger leaks a point.