Repeatedly resurrect and kill selected doodads

[spellwalker]

Hi, I have some doodads that start the game dead, but I want to resurrect them at the start of the game, and then after some time kill them again. I can select all the dead doodads and resurrect them just fine, but then the game refuses to kill them again. Is there a way to kill the same selected doodads after resurrecting them? Map attached

• ReviveTrees
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Destructible - Pick every destructible in (Entire map) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • (Destructible-type of (Picked destructible)) Equal to Summer Tree Wall
            • ((Picked destructible) is dead) Equal to True
          • Then - Actions
            • Destructible - Resurrect (Picked destructible) with (Max life of (Picked destructible)) life and Show birth animation
            • -------- The actions below this line do not work :( --------
            • Wait 5.00 seconds
            • Destructible - Kill (Picked destructible)
            • -------- The actions above this line do not work :( --------
          • Else - Actions
            • Do nothing

 

[Warseeker]

You can't use waits during map initialization because the actions you put below them trigger after the map finishes loading. In your case picked destructible returns null after the wait which why you can't destroy them. So you should use a timer instead.

Also remove Do Nothing it's kinda useless.

 

[Lordul Dracula]

I think the kill action is not working because of the wait 5 sec. What you need to do is to make a new trigger with a event:Time every 5 sec , action:destructible.kill and Trigger-Turn off(This trigger)

 

[Cheshire]

one simple reason that this isn't working is bc the computer only saves 1 variable for "picked destructible" in memory. when it is looping through them, it keeps rewriting that variable. so by the time that 5 second timer expires - it is probably just one tree.

there may be other issues too, but to circumvent the above problem (which may solve the issue) - you could jsut split this into 2 triggers. have the second trigger fire 5 seconds after the game starts, loop through the trees you want to kill and kill them.

in order to find the trees that you spawned and want to kill (assuming there are other trees) - one eeasy way to do this is to create a custom tree doodad that is a copy of the other trees but with a different name. so you could loop through and kill the custom trees but not the rest.

 

[Uncle]

This should work fine:

• ReviveTrees
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Destructible - Pick every destructible in (Entire map) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • (Destructible-type of (Picked destructible)) Equal to Summer Tree Wall
            • ((Picked destructible) is dead) Equal to True
          • Then - Actions
            • Destructible - Resurrect (Picked destructible) with (Max life of (Picked destructible)) life and Show birth animation
          • Else - Actions
    • Wait 5.00 seconds
    • Destructible - Pick every destructible in (Entire map) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • (Destructible-type of (Picked destructible)) Equal to Summer Tree Wall
            • ((Picked destructible) is dead) Equal to False
          • Then - Actions
            • Destructible - Kill (Picked destructible)
          • Else - Actions

If you want to do this continuously throughout the game I recommend storing the Destructibles in an Array and using a For Loop to enumerate over them. You could use a Timer or Periodic Interval to do this every X seconds. Also, Waits are generally bad practice.

 

[spellwalker]

This should work fine:

• ReviveTrees
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Destructible - Pick every destructible in (Entire map) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • (Destructible-type of (Picked destructible)) Equal to Summer Tree Wall
            • ((Picked destructible) is dead) Equal to True
          • Then - Actions
            • Destructible - Resurrect (Picked destructible) with (Max life of (Picked destructible)) life and Show birth animation
          • Else - Actions
    • Wait 5.00 seconds
    • Destructible - Pick every destructible in (Entire map) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • (Destructible-type of (Picked destructible)) Equal to Summer Tree Wall
            • ((Picked destructible) is dead) Equal to False
          • Then - Actions
            • Destructible - Kill (Picked destructible)
          • Else - Actions

If you want to do this continuously throughout the game I recommend storing the Destructibles in an Array and using a For Loop to enumerate over them. You could use a Timer or Periodic Interval to do this every X seconds. Also, Waits are generally bad practice.

Ah yes, but that will kill all the trees in map, not just the ones I resurected in the beginning
I was thinking more of a

• ReviveTrees
  • Events
    • Time - Elapsed game time is 3.00 seconds
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Destructible - Pick every destructible in (Entire map) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • (Destructible-type of (Picked destructible)) Equal to Summer Tree Wall
            • ((Picked destructible) is alive) Equal to False
          • Then - Actions
            • Unit Group - Add (Picked unit) to Trees
            • Destructible - Resurrect (Picked destructible) with (Max life of (Picked destructible)) life and Show birth animation
          • Else - Actions
    • Trigger - Turn off (This trigger)

and

• KillTrees
  • Events
    • Time - Elapsed game time is 6.00 seconds
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in Trees and do (Unit - Kill (Picked unit))
    • Trigger - Turn off (This trigger)

but unit groups only work with units, and not with doodads

And how can I store the Destructibles in an Array and using a For Loop to enumerate over them please?

 

[Cheshire]

but unit groups only work with units, and not with doodads

And how can I store the Destructibles in an Array and using a For Loop to enumerate over them please?

I suggested a solution to this in my first reply:

"in order to find the trees that you spawned and want to kill (assuming there are other trees) - one eeasy way to do this is to create a custom tree doodad that is a copy of the other trees but with a different name. so you could loop through and kill the custom trees but not the rest."

basically - create a custom destructible and then you can just filter this by destructible type.

 

[Lordul Dracula]

Hi here try this

 

[Uncle]

And how can I store the Destructibles in an Array and using a For Loop to enumerate over them please?

Create a new Destructible variable and enable it as an Array. Then create a new Integer variable.

Now when you Pick through the trees at the start of the game you simply do this:

• Destructible - Pick every destructible in (Entire map) and do (Actions)
  • Loop - Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Destructible-type of (Picked destructible)) Equal to Summer Tree Wall
        • ((Picked destructible) is dead) Equal to True
      • Then - Actions
        • Set Variable TreeCount = TreeCount + 1
        • Set Variable Tree[TreeCount] = (Picked destructible)
      • Else - Actions

Now you've stored all of your Trees in an Array with an [index] starting at 1 and ending at TreeCount. In other words, your trees are stored like so:
Tree[1] = First tree, Tree[2] = Second tree, Tree[3] = Third tree, etc.
TreeCount is equal to the total number of trees in the Array.

Now you can use a For Loop to enumerate over these trees whenever you want:

• For each (Integer A) from 1 to TreeCount, do (Actions)
  • Loop - Actions
    • Destructible - Kill Tree[(Integer A)]