Doodad placement.

How do you guys creat things like, for example, a hall made of arcways? They are placed very close to each other or even are at the same place at a time! For example like in CotN.
Is there a special prog or is mpq-files editing required?

2 ways, you can alter the pathing of the doodad so they can overlap, this however allows units to walk right though it,

or (the better way)

you use CTRL + the keypad arrows to move the doodads closer together

1. Where exactly is doodad pathing?

2. CTRL+arrows? How actually?! Ctrl+keypad arrows does skrolling. emote_confused I tried different combinations, can't do anything. :bgrun:

Target the doodad first and then use the ctrl+keypad

Place the doodad with the mouse first, then fine tune with Ctrl+keypad.

EDIT: also, why am I an elven sorceress? Gotta change that.

I'm a stupid dumb ***!!!! Kill me, I'm an idiot!!! ://// :bangH: ://// :bangH: :////
I just forgot to switch the 'Num Lock' key!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:bangH: :bangH: :bangH: :bangH: :bangH: :bangH: :bangH: :bangH:

Now everything's fine. :gsmile: Actually I found it out after 10 minutes I posted the previous post. :gsmile:

And about the dooada pathing. I anyway need to know how that thing looks like and where it is cuz I'm gonna make a costum doodad (a very unusual one!) and I'll need to make a new pathing map for it.

extract the dooadads\doodads.slk

look for the column called Path it will have something like:
Textures\2x2simplesolid.tga or something (many different types of course)

Thanx Dakan. 've just extracted, now working with it.

cool. this thread solved one of my problems.

Same here, Mountain Giant. :D

but theres still one problem i still have with that. units don't move over top of units. like having a castle move over top of a lumber mill. how do you do that?

Kill the pathing map.

how do you kill it?

unit editor, make the pathing map _ (you need a advanced editor for this) also lower the collision size to 0