respawning and menus

[Cobrajet127]

I'm making a TPS multiplayer game and i need help with:
1. Creating a menu for the player to choose a unit; I want this to change the actor or model and different attributes* of the unit. I also need the menu to pause the game.
2. I would like to have the player unit respawn with the same model that he picked in the menu, but i have come across problems... I can't even make the unit re-spawn! So if anyone has any suggestions, please reply!

 

[Rispetto]

K.

Menus are done through strictly triggers.
I won't bother explaining how to make one in this post, there are many tutorials on the web.
Just do a google search.

For respawns, if it's not a hero just create a trigger that does like..
Event -> (unit) dies.
Condition ->
Action -> Create 1 (unit) for (Player (owner of unit(triggering unit))).

If the unit is say.. a marauder.. just replace (unit) in the action with (marauder).
If it's a hero.. well then I'm not sure.
I know you need to use banks to save the information of the unit, then create another hero and install those attributes into the new unit.
Or something like that.

 

[Tleno]

I recall there is another way, too. You can just make a behavior, like the one Thors and odins have. You know, the "OdinDontDie" behavior plus behavior that morphs the unit into some kind of placeholder-unit, you know, a dummy. So the dummy has all attributes and stuff inherited from previous unit and using trrigers, it's moved to the respawn zone, then immediatelly or wjen timer says so the dummy recieves an otrder to morph into the unit it previously was.

 

[M0RT]

If you want to change some minor attributes and model, you could use same base unit with different actors/models. Then the differences between units could be only minor (what you can do with behaviors). If you want major differences, you should use multiple units.

As for the revival... just use the trigger action "revive unit". BUT in order for that function to work, you need to set the unit's "Death time" to something else than 0 (when it is 0, all the unit's data are deleted instantly when it dies. -1 would make the unit revivable for infinite long)

 

[Tleno]

By the way, just a minor advice, but you know, to make the destroyed wall or something look more noticeable, you can try and set it's HDR to less than one instead of decreasing RGB. This will look better. Like try HDR (Or HDD or whatever) 0.6. Or even cooler, set HDR/HDD to -1.

 

[Statharas]

To do that, simply set the unit to a unit variable. Then, when the unit dies, clear that value and set the player to view a dummyunit at a location you want him to see while dead.

After that, its really simple. Just re-create the unit, and attach the whole system on it.