[Trigger] race selection

[Cherios]

hi.

i wanted to use some sort of trigger where at the start of the game a window pops up without pausing for you to choose to spawn a type of barracks (example, human, undead, orc, night elf, ect.)

however i don't know how to do this, can someone please tell me what i need to do (aswell as giving some instructions on the hard parts if possible) if you can tell me it would be a great help.

 

[M4stah]

Check out some tutorials before making these threads. I believe we a have a dialogue tutorial

 

[DarkAngelAzazel]

You need the trigger actions "dialog".

1.) Create a variable called "Dialog" (or something else)
2.) Create a "dialog - buttons" array with one button for every race.
3.) Create the trigger:

Event: Gametime is 5 min... (or whatever you want)
Action:
Create a new dialog
set "yourDialogVariable" = last created dialog
Create 1 button for "yourDialogVariable" called Human
set buttonArray[0] = last created button
Create 1 button for "yourDialogVariable" calleld Orc
set buttonArray[1] = last created button

... so on for every race.
at the end: dialog - show "yourDialogVariable" to all players
Then you need another trigger:

Event: Dialog button is pressed for "yourDialogVariable"
Action:
dialog - hide "yourDialogVariable" for trigg player
If(pressedButton = buttonArray[0])
then: create one "Human" mainbuilding at startposition of triggering player (trigg player should work here but I am not sure)
create 5 workers for trigg player at start pos of trigg player
elseif(pressedButton = buttonArray[1])
Create one "nightelf" mainbuilding at ...

one if for every race.
ALWAYS create mainbuilding and start units

 

[Cherios]

erm.... i'm not quite sure how to do this:

Action:
Create a new dialog
set "yourDialogVariable" = last created dialog
Create 1 button for "yourDialogVariable" called Human
set buttonArray[0] = last created button
Create 1 button for "yourDialogVariable" calleld Orc
set buttonArray[1] = last created button

... so on for every race.
at the end: dialog - show "yourDialogVariable" to all players

 

[DarkAngelAzazel]

go to trigger editor make a new trigger

-> rightclick new action
--> Dialog - Create new Dialog.

If you don't understand this I highly suggest reading a gui beginners tutorial first!!!

 

[Cherios]

AH! but theres the problem, in my new action-dialog submenu i only have:
show\hide
change title
create dialog button
clear

i can't find: Create new dialog anywhere.......

 

[Toilet Maker]

I created a video tutorial on dialog buttons! YouTube - WC3 World Editor - Dialog Box and Timer Tutorial

Instead of using 4 different variables for the races you can use one variable with Arrays.

Obviously instead of making the action a timer like I did you make it create your building.

 

[Cherios]

The youtube vid was great help, but i'm not quite sure how to convert that over to spawning units instead of creating a timer....

 

[Cherios]

oh wait i think ive got it, i'll post whether or not it worked

 

[Cherios]

i've come to a small problem... how do i make it so that creates units for a different player other than player red, because it only makes it for that player

 

[Toilet Maker]

Well you have to show the dialog box to every player and make a new trigger:
Event: Dialog - A Dialog Button is Clicked
Conditions: (Clicked Dialog Button) Equal to (Undead/Human/etc)
Actions: Create x for (Triggering Player) at x

Of course if your making them all at same position something will glitch because you can't build buildings on top of each other.

Maybe consider making a unit that can build the building instead of the building itself? But of course the unit dies after building (like a Wisp building an ancient). Good Luck!

 

[Cherios]

ok, i used regions to spawn the buildings, thanks for all the help!