Wrong Spawn {preventing units from spawning on cliffs}

[Ham]

is there a way to prevent units spawning at cliffs?

 

[xXMephistoXx]

Place pathing blockers on the cliffs.

 

[Ham]

Place pathing blockers on the cliffs.

i added other attachments :s

 

[xXMephistoXx]

Ah, but there are no units. It's a doodad.

Do like this with the doodads in question:


EDIT: Or it is a unit... doh
Set it to "Buildable" in "Placement Requires".

 

[Ham]

Ah, but there are no units. It's a doodad.

Do like this with the doodads in question:
View attachment 47226

it's an unit, i just changed the model x]

i want it also to spawn in non buildable places such water and marble blocks, what must i do?

 

[xXMephistoXx]

See above for solution

 

[Ham]

will it spawn at water and marble blocks too?

EDIT: just by using ground-patchable true, it won't let me place it at cliffs on World Edit. but in game it can spawn there :s

 

[xXMephistoXx]

On everything except unbuildable tilsets, cliffs and water:

 

[Ham]

this is still not working

 

[Rui]

There might be a condition that checks the unit's cliff level. Check under Integer comparisons.
There is also a JASS function that detects a unit's Z, but it causes desyncs.

 

[Ham]

Thanks so much this worked like this.

• Crates
  • Events
    • Time - Every 20.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
    • (Number of units in (Units of type Crate)) Less than 250
  • Actions
    • Set CratePoint = (Random point in (Playable map area))
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Terrain cliff level at CratePoint) Equal to 2
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Create 1 Crate for Neutral Passive at CratePoint facing Default building facing degrees
      • Else - Actions
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_CratePoint)

Solved~

 

[Triax]

Thanks so much this worked like this.

• Crates
  • Events
    • Time - Every 20.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
    • (Number of units in (Units of type Crate)) Less than 250
  • Actions
    • Set CratePoint = (Random point in (Playable map area))
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Terrain cliff level at CratePoint) Equal to 2
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Create 1 Crate for Neutral Passive at CratePoint facing Default building facing degrees
      • Else - Actions
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_CratePoint)

Solved~

Ouch, this might end up in creating no crate. You should run this trigger again so the trigger will try to spawn one until it finds a random point where it is possible.

Like that:

• Crates
  • Events
    • Time - Every 20.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
    • (Number of units in (Units of type Crate)) Less than 250
  • Actions
    • Set CratePoint = (Random point in (Playable map area))
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Terrain cliff level at CratePoint) Equal to 2
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Create 1 Crate for Neutral Passive at CratePoint facing Default building facing degrees
      • Else - Actions
        • Trigger - Run Crates <gen> (checking conditions)
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_CratePoint)

 

[Ham]

Right! now it's really solved~ i found out that when the random point was set to cliff it could make no unit at all, but now with your "run again" trigger will make this spawn somewhere else if it was set to cliff.

SOLVED!

 

[Triax]

Hm, there might be two other things you got to fix:

If a second instance of the trigger is run, it might run before the first one is finished. That would mean that the RemoveLocation of the first instance would remove a location which the second already removed, so the location created in the first trigger will still leak.
(I guess it's like that, though I don't know exactly how the trigger queue works.)

So you should make it with a local variable or call RemoveLocation twice (then & else).

• Crates
  • Events
    • Time - Every 20.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
    • (Number of units in (Units of type Crate)) Less than 250
  • Actions
    • Custom script: local location udg_CratePoint
    • Set CratePoint = (Random point in (Playable map area))
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Terrain cliff level at CratePoint) Equal to 2
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Create 1 Crate for Neutral Passive at CratePoint facing Default building facing degrees
      • Else - Actions
        • Trigger - Run Crates <gen> (checking conditions)
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_CratePoint)

• Crates
  • Events
    • Time - Every 20.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
    • (Number of units in (Units of type Crate)) Less than 250
  • Actions
    • Set CratePoint = (Random point in (Playable map area))
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Terrain cliff level at CratePoint) Equal to 2
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Create 1 Crate for Neutral Passive at CratePoint facing Default building facing degrees
        • Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_CratePoint)
      • Else - Actions
        • Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_CratePoint)
        • Trigger - Run Crates <gen> (checking conditions)

Furthermore, I think the condition in your trigger leaks because it creates a unit group which is not removed later on. You could make that check inside the trigger actions, so you can remove the group.

By the way, I guess you are not using Jass NewGen Pack because you use custom script to call RemoveLocation. If so, get it at Jass NewGen Pack v5b - Wc3campaigns, it's a MUST!


Have fun with that. =)
Triax