[Campaign] World Map Vehicles

[Blake8]

I'm thinking of creating a world map, similar to the ones which exist in various rpg games for a campaign, I was thinking of modifying various units to serve as vehicles so that the party can maneuver across various terrains, so far I came up with this:

Vehicle: none
can navigate on land, shallow water
cannot traverse cliffs, deep water

Vehicle: ship
can navigate on shallow water, deep water
cannot traverse land, cliffs

Vehicle: glider
can navigate on land, shallow water, deep water
cannot traverse cliffs

vehicle: airship
can navigate over land. shallow water, deep water, cliffs


also I was thinking of something like a tank (siege engine) vehicle which can pass through briar forest which no other vehicle besides the airship can pass, this is basically done by setting the movement type of the unit to amphibious and creating a trench using height>lower in already existent shallow water and covering the trench up with thorns from felwood>environment doodad category

Any additional ideas for vehicles are welcome...

 

[Molaf]

 

[Kakerate]

Pretty cool idea. Perhaps objectives could be based around the construction / raising of funds for buying one of the vehicles, as the vehicle unlocks a new area.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Make a train

 

[Blake8]

a yoshi?

 

[Molaf]

No a tennis ball.

 

[cleavinghammer]

Why doesn't the glider allow going over cliffs? Maybe ou could replace it with a hovercraft.

 

[Blake8]

Why doesn't the glider allow going over cliffs? Maybe ou could replace it with a hovercraft.

To ascent cliffs is essentially to jump on them or to fly...

glider has the movement type : amphibious

 

[cleavinghammer]

Yes, but gliders can be used to go down cliffs, and only for one-way trips.

 

[Blake8]

It's not that type of glider....it's essentially a vehicle with it's movement type set to amphibious....the name glider is just that...a name.....basically what you got is a vehicle that can travel on both land and sea

 

[Colonel Aster]

Make two types of airships one that can navigate in heavy wind and one that cannot.

Use triggers to implement this

 

[Blake8]

Make two types of airships one that can navigate in heavy wind and one that cannot.

Use triggers to implement this

How would you achieve this? Create pathblockers that are destroyed via triggers when the appropriate airship is boarded?

 

[Colonel Aster]

pathing blockerw can be destroyed in the windy areas once the stronger airship is boarded and can be reanimate once the passengers leave that ship

thats how i would attempt to impement this atleast

 

[cleavinghammer]

Or just have a Move Unit trigger that checks what the unit is when it enters the windy region, then pushing back those that can't go in (also applying to units on foot, in cars, etc.).

 

[Colonel Aster]

I have no idea how you would get this done using triggers ive seen it implemented but i believe they were using jass programming to implement the effect

 

[Lord Aiden]

How about a tank that can be used to destroy debris that would otherwise block the players path, just think about it, you need this tank to clear various obstructions on land in order for the player to go from one location to a location blocked by something

 

[Daffa]

Vehicle: none
can navigate on land, shallow water
cannot traverse cliffs, deep water

Vehicle: ship
can navigate on shallow water, deep water
cannot traverse land, cliffs

Vehicle: glider
can navigate on land, shallow water, deep water
cannot traverse cliffs

vehicle: airship
can navigate over land. shallow water, deep water, cliffs

None -> Movement : Foot
Ship -> Movement : Float
Glider -> Movement : Amphibious
Airship -> Movement : Fly

Also, try messing with Hover movement, it might be intriguing to play with.

 

[Blake8]

Hover is identical to foot, there is just a difference in the way it turns and moves the character around I believe