Using warnings?

[gurra_geban]

So, iv'e got alot of custom restrictions in my map, and i know you can modify and use the regular warcraft messages like "Must hanut gold mine first" or "Cannot target Mechanical units"... Is there any way of triggering there for custom situations?

 

[reason 3]

Go to Advanced in the menu,then click Game Interface.Then find what you want to change,and press ok to the button which says "Use Custom Interface".
+rep if it helped.

 

[M4stah]

You can make your own warning messages with triggers, but its quite complex to add a warning sound, or make a dummy unit trigger one of the excisting messages.

 

[gurra_geban]

sry man, good try but unfortunately it wasn't really what i was looking for... i know how to change them, but i don't know how to trigger them for the restrictions in my map...

EDIT: so using dummies is the way to go... ok, thanks ^^

 

[reason 3]

You can't actually make the sounds,the only way to make the sounds is to import them and also make some triggers.

 

[.Ragnaros]

reason_3 you're not understanding exactly what he means I guess...

What gurra wants is making the custom changed messages appear when something is done, like: you press a button and a popup appears with an error.

But why don't you use normal Game Messages instead of trying too complex things?

 

[Hugget Sukker]

He's trying to improve interface. Warning messages are better, 'cause they don't push up (or look anything like) chat messages.

Then again, if I imagine it correctly, it won't be all that complex by using some dummies. Depend on the restrictions that trigger your warnings.

Let's say we have a restriction that is: Players cannot build CoolBuilding within 1500 of another CoolBuilding. So, the detection is straightfoward, but then to call our custom warning, we must make something, that is unallowed by default, happen through dummies, such as ordering triggering player's dummy worker unit to build a farm on our dummy unbuildable tile, which will ofcourse trigger the inbuilt warning, which can be customized to: "Another CoolBuilding is too close".

All one needs is to find out which action triggers which customizable warning, and figure out how to make that happen through triggers, without any player noticing.

Actually, it's rather simple when you think about it. And it may even be worth the effort, if you're picky about details.

 

[gurra_geban]

well, will probably do this sometime ^^
it's a bit more work than i thought as you need to examine the vanilla game (who knows what u could find there?)
+rep, thanks for the info