[Trigger] Unhiding and Hiding Units in a Region

[The Twilight]

Basically, I'm trying to construct a "ghost" town for my campaign/adventure. Now, I've been trying to set the town to where, ghosts will appear at night, yet disappear at morning. So far, the morning trigger works fine, and my hero, or the player's hero doesn't vanish with them aswell...but I cannot get them to reappear when dusk comes around again. I tried to do 2 seperate triggers, and again, the morning one worked (the first time anyways) and the night one, however, did not.

If anyone could get feedback to me, I would greatly appreciate your assistance. Thanks!

 

[Vegavak]

Why not just remove them, save the point, save the unit, and replace the unit to that point when the time comes again?

 

[The Twilight]

I never thought of that. It would be like the respawn trigger that most RPG's use, right? Just in that region however?

 

[doom_sheep]

why not just give them windwalk :/

 

[The Twilight]

Because, the player would then be able to see them if given a high-level stealth detection. I want them not to be communicated with until dusk, otherwise it wouldn't really be a ghost town. :/

 

[Vegavak]

I never thought of that. It would be like the respawn trigger that most RPG's use, right? Just in that region however?

The trigger would depend entirely on how you wanted it to function, but for the most part would be quite similar to the respawn triggers most rpgs use.

And windwalk has to be the worst suggestion to make a ghost town. Especially if you intend to have any form of stealth detection in the game.

 

[The Twilight]

Hm, alright. Thanks for the input, I'll see if I can put together a trigger.

 

[doom_sheep]

that stuff seems a little complex. easiest way would be adding them to a group variable, then picking them to hide/unihide.

picking units in region doesnt work because it doesnt pick hidden units

 

[The Twilight]

Yeah, that's what I had tried previously. I'll get to work on it, having a hard time figuring it out so I might try the unit grouping.

 

[The_Silent]

You can't pick units in an area if they are hidden

 

[darkrider]

im sure you destroy your unit group after using it in morning trigger... keep it until night trigger and then destroy it (after night trigger has ended)... i think that it wont change in that period of time, am i correct?

 

[GhostWolf]

Just group all your ghosts and hide/unhide all the units in the group, it's as simple as that...