Need help with this trigger.

[Clawdruid]

Hi, im tying to make it so you can make your own path for a TD, so im making a unit run along and change the terrain as you will. How would i make it so a unit (Creep) would run along this path that you made to an end that you will be able to place down? Thanks.

 

[Squiggy]

Hah?
If I understand correctly, you want to make a unit spawn and run along a path.
Therefore, make two regions; one at the starting/spawning point and one at the end.
Given that you raised the terrian around the path or decreased the path-terrain, make one trigger:

• Events
  • Unit - A Unit enters region Start region <gen>
• Conditions
  • Owner of (Triggering Unit) is *your enemy player*
• Actions
  • Set temppoint1 = (Center of End Region <gen>)
  • Unit - Order (Triggering Unit) to move to temppoint1
  • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_temppoint1)

As the units are created in your start area, they'll be ordered to move towards the end.
You can as well add a nice sfx to the spawning like teleport or mirror image ^^

 

[Clawdruid]

Well the way that i want it is you have a unit. Then you activate a spell on that unit either making it grass or tiles. If it is tiles then when ever that unit runs over non tile terrain, it will make it tiled. And the same if you were to make it grass. is there anyway that like every few seconds make a region under that unit then make the creeps follow the regions? Or will that cause problems by putting to many regions on one spot? I don't really want to mess with raising the terrain. Unless i have to.

 

[Squiggy]

Well the way that i want it is you have a unit. Then you activate a spell on that unit either making it grass or tiles. If it is tiles then when ever that unit runs over non tile terrain, it will make it tiled.

That's like: Unit -> Spell -> Anything it walks on changes to the fitting terrain

Urm I haven't been with wc3 in a long time, therefore I have to guess but I suppose you can't change the terrain at all in-game.

 

[Clawdruid]

Well i have that part down, it was easy, but what i cant get down is how to make the creeps follow the path the path unit sets down.

 

[Bribe]

I'm not sure what you're trying to do. You want your units to run along a labyrinth and if a unit casts a spell then they change their direction??

 

[Squiggy]

Just why do you want to do that?

It would be easier to place regions on the path and order the units to move to the next region after entering the first. Just Set temppoint1 = Center of Region 1 <gen> and copy that trigger the amount of regions you placed and then align the triggers to the regions you set.
Now Unit A will be sent to Region 1, then to 2 upon entrance, then 3 and so on..

 

[Clawdruid]

But that is so boring. I wanted to do something unique. Well i put a lot of pathing blockers and when u go over them it removes it. but its a bit glitchy cause it either removes to many or to little and the pathing gets messed up.

 

[Clawdruid]

I'm not sure what you're trying to do. You want your units to run along a labyrinth and if a unit casts a spell then they change their direction??

No, i want to make your unit run along and make a custom path for the waves of creeps to follow.

 

[Maker]

Here's the system.

Press ESC to start pathing. Move around with the unit. A periodic trigger checks the position of the unit and saves it to an array. If the position is not far enough from the previous saved position, then the position will not be stored. You don't need to save waypoints that are very close to the previous one. You can define the distance at map initialization.

When you press ESC again, a unit spawns and runs through the waypoints.

When you press ESC again, you can start pathing again. All previous waypoints will be cleared.

The dummies are spawned so you can see where the waypoints are. You can remove all lines concerning dummies from the final code.

I was too lazy to comment the triggers, if you have questions ask them in this thread.

 

[Clawdruid]

This is pretty neat, but the unit stops running the rest of the path after a bit. Is there a way to fix this? thanks

 

[Maker]

Advanced -> Gameplay Constants -> Creep Guard Distance

Set that to some large number, like 100000.

 

[Clawdruid]

Omg thanks man! this is awesome. +Rep

 

[Bribe]

Maker is the master of doing cool shit with the GUI.