[JASS] Newb Questions ?

[Flame_Phoenix]

Guys, I have a question, that may sound newb ... but: How do I create a Haunted Gold mine, with gold ???

Well, you see, I found that if I create a haunted gold mine, it doesn't have gold ...
Here is the code I used:

set x = -4600.0
set y = 1200.0
set mine = CreateUnit(p, 'ugol', x, y, 270) //creates UDmine

But the mine created has no gold..

Then I though," I know I will use a dummy!", but didn't went well.. the stupid dummy can't summon the dam mine, on a real mine ...

So, How do I do this ?

 

[Diehard@Azeroth]

GUI:

• Neutral Building - Set (goldmine) to 12500 gold

JASS: (may not be in best form or may be done in another way but im not a jasser, i only know little)

call SetResourceAmount( null, 12500 )

null= the goldmine

12500 or w/e number is the amount you want to put in the goldmine or haunted goldmine.

 

[Flame_Phoenix]

mmm, that may work for neutral mines, but my point here is a Haunted Gold mine, and that is different.

Also thx for your PM.
I don't know if that is going to work, but I will test it asap.

 

[darkwulfv]

Hmm...

Perhaps make a gold mind, then a dummy unit with a dummy Haunt Gold Mine ability that has an instant cast? (doesn't take time to build)

 

[busterkomo]

Why do you have

set x = -4600.0
set y = 1200.0
set mine = CreateUnit(p, 'ugol', x, y, 270) //creates UDmine

Instead of

set mine = CreateUnit(p, 'ugol', -4600.0, 1200.0, 270) //creates UDmine

 

[darkwulfv]

While that wouldn't cause an issue, that's an unneeded use of variable.

 

[Blue_Jeans]

I'm trying to teach him stuff like this. He overuses variables on certain things, and doesn't use variables for stuff he should, like unit and spell ID's.

Anyways, does the gold mine thing work?

 

[Flame_Phoenix]

YA it did =), and btw, I use variables for ID's, you saw it in my huge fufy bunny code =)

 

[PurplePoot]

There is a native for this, not sure if it's any different though (never used it)

native CreateBlightedGoldmine   takes player id, real x, real y, real face returns unit

 

[Flame_Phoenix]

Mmmm, well i don't know it it works, but I will test it. One line of code will surely be more efficient then 2.

 

[Herman]

Similar to the subject

Instead of making a mine the way WE does it, how could you make a unit react to other units, the same way a mine would?
Perhaps making it invulnerable and its HP representing its worth in resource? (this would go for maps that have multiple minable resources)

I was thinking making a certain kind of action to change ownership of the resource (ways to do it are innumerable, from a region, to a building, to a spell cast)

But the way it would be mined, wouldn't it be sorta like a unit is ordered to move or attack, or something onto the mine-able unit, and when he reaches his destination, becomes hidden, then reappears some seconds later (configurable) with (hopefully it's a peon model)

A sack of resource on his back with orders to go back to a town hall
And then floating text to show resources have been dropped off

I was thinking about how the haunted mine + acolytes could be recreated through triggering


If anybody'd like to make the JASS code for something like that and some pictures, it would be interesting

 

[Bubba Ex]

isn't a haunted gold mine just a normal gold mine with a skin on it? So find the skin in war3.mpq and use the skin for a normal gold mine?

 

[Herman]

@Me or Flame?

Uhh, I'm talking more so about the code for the acolytes on the sides

But I supposed that'd work for Flames question

 

[Bubba Ex]

yeah I meant flame. And about yours, it worth in resource would probably be better as point-value and floating text above it.