[General] Very weird problems with builders

[Apheraz Lucent]

I'm working on my TD map, and I'm quite shocked with the errors I'm getting.

Apparently, standard workers build my custom structures perfectly. When I change model, icon, walk animation speed, movement and tooltips, the building starts with 50 hp and won't build. That's very weird, since the changed fields affect visuals only. Am I missing anything?

 

[Tirlititi]

Blizzard was quiet solid on the separation of visual effects and gameplay modifications. I think you edited something else.

I'm not a specialist of buildings, but I think one of the things that does that bug is to give your builder the human ability to "build" but not the ability to "repair".

 

[Apheraz Lucent]

Units are the same as standard workers, with exceptions I've mentioned.

I thought it's because of Root (Ancients) ability I've added to allow buildings to turn around when attacking, but then I realized I can't build units without it as well.

I'm totally confused, will try to change parameter by parameter to figure this out. It will take time, but... Damn.

 

[defskull]

You have to give both your builder the ability Build and Repair.
Warcraft III uses a trick, to build buildings.
You see, to build a building, it simply creates a Unit Building which has a relatively low amount of HP at starting, and after that, the worker uses Repair ability to "finish" the remaining parts of the building.

It is actually a process of creating units with low HP as a start, and after that an order of "Repair" is issued to the worker to the building that just been created.

Therefore, a worker that only has Build ability, does not simply finish the building because it needs Repair to complete it.

But remember, each Build technique is different to each races (Human , Night Elves, Undead, Orcs)
Well, perhaps Human = Orcs
Wisp uses itself to sacrifice for the building thus dies in the process (some building)
Undead has the ability to auto-build your building once it is created with a relatively low HP at start.