Research/Upgrade time = 0?

[Rogue Kessler]

Hey everyone! I'm currently in the early stages of a tower defense project, and I've set up a bunch of upgrades to improve the player's towers. I set the following values for all of my upgrades (in the Upgrades tab of the Object Editor):

Time Base: 0
Time Increment: 0

The idea is I want the upgrades to complete instantaneously as soon as they're started. However even with these values set to 0 the upgrades still take some time to finish in-game, maybe 1-2 seconds.

My question is: Is there a default somewhere that is overwriting the 0 for these values, or what's causing this issue? Does anyone know a way to make these upgrades actually take 0 seconds in-game?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Kaijyuu]

That's as fast as you're going to get it, yeah. I suggest setting the research time to 1 second to properly display the progress bar.

 

[bear_369]

@Kaijyuu Even though it's impossible to accomplish it in Object Editor, it still possible to make it instantly complete by triggering.

@Jake Kessler

• Insta Upgrade
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Begins an upgrade
  • Conditions
    • Or - Any (Conditions) are true
      • Conditions
        • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Guard Tower
        • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Cannon Tower
        • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Scout Tower
  • Actions
    • Unit - Set (Triggering unit) upgrade progress to 96%

• Insta Research
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Begins research
  • Conditions
    • (Researched tech-type) Equal to Iron Plating
  • Actions
    • Player - Set the current research level of Iron Plating to ((Current research level of Iron Plating for (Owner of (Triggering unit))) + 1) for (Owner of (Triggering unit))

 

[Doomcore]

Maybe set the event to "Map Init..."
and then action
Set the current research level of 'Research Stuff" to (1) ...

I think it goes faster.

 

[Daffa]

Maybe set the event to "Map Init..."
and then action
Set the current research level of 'Research Stuff" to (1) ...

I think it goes faster.

That will skip the research altogether, eliminating the costs.

 

[Kaijyuu]

@bear_369
I'll have to give a warning about the building upgrade one, since I'd tried that myself before. Instantly upgrading a building screws with the upgrade animation, and things like size modifiers won't be fully applied. Should wait at least a second for those.

 

[bear_369]

@bear_369
I'll have to give a warning about the building upgrade one, since I'd tried that myself before. Instantly upgrading a building screws with the upgrade animation, and things like size modifiers won't be fully applied. Should wait at least a second for those.

Rechecking the trigger again and probably fixed the issue by setting the upgrade progress into 96%. It would be complete in 0.04 seconds for a 1-sec upgrade, along with its animation. 97% could work but it rarely failed, so I had to reduce it by 1.

 

[Rogue Kessler]

@Kaijyuu Even though it's impossible to accomplish it in Object Editor, it still possible to make it instantly complete by triggering.

@Jake Kessler

• Insta Upgrade
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Begins an upgrade
  • Conditions
    • Or - Any (Conditions) are true
      • Conditions
        • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Guard Tower
        • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Cannon Tower
        • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Scout Tower
  • Actions
    • Unit - Set (Triggering unit) upgrade progress to 96%

• Insta Research
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Begins research
  • Conditions
    • (Researched tech-type) Equal to Iron Plating
  • Actions
    • Player - Set the current research level of Iron Plating to ((Current research level of Iron Plating for (Owner of (Triggering unit))) + 1) for (Owner of (Triggering unit))

@bear_369
I'll have to give a warning about the building upgrade one, since I'd tried that myself before. Instantly upgrading a building screws with the upgrade animation, and things like size modifiers won't be fully applied. Should wait at least a second for those.

Rechecking the trigger again and probably fixed the issue by setting the upgrade progress into 96%. It would be complete in 0.04 seconds for a 1-sec upgrade, along with its animation. 97% could work but it rarely failed, so I had to reduce it by 1.

I will try this trigger out later, but it looks like it does what I want! (upgrade animations aren't a big deal for me anyway, since I'm talking about upgrading things like attack damage / researching abilities, not upgrading scout towers to guard towers or what have you.)

Thank you both! +Rep!

EDIT - @bear_369 That insta research trigger worked like a charm, exactly what I wanted. Thanks again!