Unit pathing (unprovoked units in TD attacking towers)

[Goosebearslug]

I need help with making enemy creeps attack walls instead of running around them and trying to get to the towers. If you box yourself in with walls and put towers inside the towers will attack the creeps, causing them to run around like geese trying to attack the towers when they cant.

 

[Bannar]

You can give those walls orc's building skipes ability and set current lvl of upgrade to 1 for given player at in map initialization trigger.
Make sure you null all damage statistics in that upgrade. Walls will be dealing 0 damage to melee units but it counts as 'attacked' so units will attack them since they are in front.

 

[Goosebearslug]

k ill give that ago, cheers for help.

Edit: Wait dosent that mean that they will only start attacking the walls if theyve already attacked it? Cause its damage return so the creeps actually have to attack the walls for it to work :S

 

[Bannar]

Mate you don't understand something..
If i's ranged unit walls don't care - it will attack from range.
If it's melee it will attack the walls.

Elaborate the subject if I misunderstood you.

 

[darwin]

This might be an odd idea, but you could give the wall itself an attack. Give it an instant attack or something, but do zero damage. That way the wall will attack them and they'll probably attack it back.

 

[Bannar]

^Better don't do that Goosebearslug.
At first, unit can't have 0 damage ;/ (minimum is 1-0 if I'm not mistaken)
Second: it forces you to waste one of attack types and change values in gameplay constants for it (null all damage dealt by it).

However, if you want 'ranged units' to focus walls too, damage should be imvolved for walls - although they will become 'mini towers' and everything will focus at them first, what ruins the concept ;/

 

[Maker]

At first, unit can't have 0 damage ;/ (minimum is 1-0 if I'm not mistaken)

Set damage base to -1 and dices and dice sides to 1. Or set base to 0 and dices to -1.

 

[Bannar]

Neat trick, never knewn about that - nice Maker.
However, I'm waiting what host of thread thinks about it - since these will become mini towers now.