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    SSP - RELEASE VERSION 1.01 
  Segmented String Pathing System
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SSP is a series of triggers used to allow the creation of virtual "roads" within Warcraft 3.  With SSP you  can create a series of roads and when you tell a unit to go to a particular destination, it will follow the roads you created perfectly.  

Example:  There is a boy named Timmy that needs to be ordered to go from his home to his school house.  In this case if Timmy were given the "Unit - Issue an Order targeting a Point" he would cut right through a band of bullies that would steal his lunch money.  Timmy is smarter than to do such a thing, so with this system, you could create a virtual road going from Timmy's house, around the bullies, and to the School house.  You would issue Timmy a different kind of move order and he would follow the road automatically.  The beautiful part of this system is that it doesn't matter what virtual road he's on or what part of it, he will always locate a route to the schoolhouse irregardless of his starting location when near a road.

The term Segmented comes into play because creating one large road going from his home to the school would be very inefficient.  Although you CAN do this if you really want to, you can instead create smaller roads that the game will piece together automatically.  The setup guide will explain this in detail but the idea here is that the segments make things faster and easier to work with.

REQUIREMENT(s): There is 1.

1)  You cannot be reserving (Custom Value of Unit).  I use this as the Index of many variable arrays and if you are using this you will have to fix this first.  If you never use (Custom Value of Unit) or you already assign a unique custom value (1 to 400 ONLY) to your units for similar purposes, then you can be assured this will be compatible with your map.  If you're not sure about this requirement, then you probably already meet it.

INSTALLATION:

Install.txt includes a step-by-step guide on how to import the triggers from the SSP.w3x map into your own and set it up.

More information can be recieved at my website or by posting on my forums.

- -  Creator: Dalten
- -  Dalten@BlackPassage.com
- -  www.BlackPassage.com
- -  www.BlackPassage.com/forum



SSP Revision History

--- 1.01 
Added compatibility with the standard WE (1.20 tested).
Added a graveyard destination as part of the demonstration.

--- 1.00
Intial Release for UMSWE and WEU (1.18 and 1.20 tested, respectively).