Wander

[Gilles]

Is there an easy way to make units wander in an area, I have a city and I don't want the wandering villagers to leave.

Right now I have regions where I do not want them to pass and I made triggers to make them go back into the middle of the city if they go into those regions. I was also wondering if the trigger leaks.

Event - A unit enters region (Entrance)

Condition - Or (Any conditions are true)
-Triggering unit is equal to Villager Male
-Triggering unit is equal to Villager Male2
-Triggering unit is equal to Villager Female
-Triggering unit is equal to Child
-Triggering unit is equal to Child2

Action - Unit - Order unit to move to center of (Middle of city)

 

[Eleandor]

that trigger should work...

and you're probably leaking a point

 

[Gilles]

How can I close the leak?

 

[Razorbrain]

• Set POINT = Center of (Middle of city <gen>)
• Unit - Order (Triggering unit) to Move to POINT
• Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_Point)

hope it helps

 

[Gilles]

Sorry I am really bad with variables, I have yet to take the time to learn them.
I sort of need walking through that part. How come your Set POINT has = Center of (Middle of city <gen>), mine says just = Middle of city <gen>

Right now I have variable called POINT, it is a region type with no array. Then I made it equal to the region I am using. Then I used your custom script.\

edit: Made the I can't use the custom script, it disabled it when I saved.

 

[Razorbrain]

the Set POINT, is meant to be a Point, not a region

hope that helps as well

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

You don't really need to fix such a simple little leak, it would mean no difference unless you have a ton of villagers trying to go outside of their area all the time throughout the entire game. But ofcourse it doesn't hurt to fix it.

 

[Gilles]

Most likely it will be all the time, not a ton of villagers, but there are more is more then one area.

Thanks Razor, +Rep!

 

[edge[d1]]

why don't you use WANDER ability? look at sheep and pigs in object editor... tornado unit (as cast by sea witch) has another version of that ability...

 

[Gilles]

I did. I didn't want them to go past a boundary, I got it fixed though, thanks to Razor.