TD like wintermaul wars or line tower wars help

[Superz_Ze_Man]

I want to make a td where you maze and have to defend against an ai controlled opponent who sends waves of units at you. But i can never figure out how to stop the player from completely blocking the row off with towers. In line tower wars, theres one unit that attacks your buildings if you block, and WMW the creeps attack if you block... anyhelp would be appreciated. + rep for an answer

 

[Vunjo]

you can change part of the terrain to unbuildable. Or, make it like you allready said what others did, orded creeps to attack it

 

[Dr Super Good]

You send invisible units through that can attack the towers but can not kill them. If it detects blocking (they start to attack towers) then you eithor clear the blockage (force sale of the attacked tower) or you give the player a few seconds to manuallf fix the problem before forcing the sale of a tower.

 

[Superz_Ze_Man]

You send invisible units through that can attack the towers but can not kill them. If it detects blocking (they start to attack towers) then you eithor clear the blockage (force sale of the attacked tower) or you give the player a few seconds to manuallf fix the problem before forcing the sale of a tower.

how would it detect blocking? is that a confusing and long trigger? if it is im just going to use the unbuildable path

 

[Dr Super Good]

If there is a block, the unit will eventually attack.

Additionally you could write an advanced pathing testing algerthim but I am afraid that will be a lot more complex (although 100% reliable and instant).

 

[Superz_Ze_Man]

lol thanks for the help. Il try this algerthim out. Ahah jk, im not that dedicated to a map

 

[cboy123]

Well, Make ALL the wave units have an attack and issue them to MOVE to the entry point. Then when there will be blocking, it will attack it. So when that happens kill the unit and the it attacks.

 

[Superz_Ze_Man]

Alright. Thanks guys. thread closed?

 

[Vunjo]

before it closes, I got an idea. You could also make a trigger, that will detect when the creep is blocked (since he will attack the tower, trigger event should be unit attacks), and then, remove it's collision, and order to move again. That way, people won't have problems with mazing if that is ok with you, and they will have more space.
Hope that helped =)

 

[Superz_Ze_Man]

what do you mean by remove its collision? like remove the unit or something? I think i might do that, its a good idea ^^ +rep

 

[Vunjo]

There is action for it. You can find it easly in Trigger/Actions/Unit
Collision is something that makes 2 units unable to be at the same place. Hope you get it. Maybe I got a better explaination, if you run into a building, u won't pass it through, instead, you will get a headache xD
If the unit's collision is turned off, he will be able to go through a building =)

 

[Superz_Ze_Man]

i just didn't know you could turn it off with triggers! i do know collision though ^^ thanks for the help!