A pretty stupid question

Can you make a custom unit look like a Castle or any upgraded building?

It's kind-a hard.. And for some reason I can barely get this to work.. But try basing your custom unit off a castle from the start... And then turning it into a unit.. I think you should have some success..

BTW... Questions aren't stupid if the person inquiering them really wnats to know a logical answer.

download ums we from the download section...

you just go to a unit and put the castle string...

Ex:

If you want to turn a peasent into a castle do this...

the units string would show something like this:

units/human/peasant/peasent.blp

just change it to the castles string

buildings/human/castle/castle.blp

... I think that is right...

Just add the correct keep model and then using
Animation- Add animation tag
or whatever to add the Upgrade and Second tags. Then it will look like a castle. (the same tags are used for the other upgradable buildings too)

Specifically, in the "Required Animations" field in any editor, enter the strings "upgrade" and "second" to a unit with the town hall model, and it will look like a castle.

The reason for this is the castle in Warcraft 3 is actually the same model as the town hall, but with some specific animations playing all the time.

hmm.... this brings an idea to me! what would u need to do to make this happen: u start with a unit, then when u have enuf gold, say 1000, then u click the 'UPGRADE' button, and then u loose 1000 gold and ur unit upgrades to say, elite long bowman?

Yes, that would work, if you based the unit off of a building (or you were using ChrydGod's enhancer SLK), and it would be an efficient, sensible, and interesting game mechanic that has hitherto been almost unused. :whoa2:

Can you tell that I like the idea? I was planning to implement it when I resume work on my map(s) after TFT is released.

When I first asked this question, I thought it would be simple so I called it stupid. I tried having the building based off of the castle but it didnt work. If I put upgrade and second in the required animation thing it still doesn't work. Oh well, it doesn't really matter. I never finish maps anyway.

Ignore the required animation thing, do what I said. In a map initialization trigger and one that goes off whenever you make a new castle-looking thing have these actions
Animation- Add the Upgrade tag to (castle thing)
Animation- Add the Second tag to (castle thing)
So, don't use the unit editor to make it look like a castle, use the triggers.
(I guess there is an enhanced editor someone made that lets you use the unit editor to do it, but just use the simple triggers)

Thanks, that should work the next time I need a building like that.