Unit Classification

How do you set custom building to be recognized as a town hall, so it won't reveal you.I tried checking the 'Town Hall' setting and looked through the game play constants. Am I missing something? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Im totally confused. It wont reveal you? What? But if u mean people wont return lumber and gold there, well thats a simple one. Just give it the return gold and lumber ability. Or you could just make a unit based on the town hall and edit stuff from there. But still, what do u mean by ?

err ya...just edit a town halls model and stuff like that...thats the easiest solution...

Haven't you ever played wc3c : TFT, in a REAL match? If you don't have a town hall within like 5 minutes or something, you will be revealed to your enemy.

Didn't know that.... havn't really played it in a real match. But dont you automaticly start out with one anyways?

Yes. It's to prevent people from taking a peasant and hiding it in a set of trees until the enemy leaves.

I've got a sneaking suspicsion that you're going to need to manually trigger it, Shimrra.

As I found out the hard way, making your first hero out of the altar free requires you to run the melee action that places starting units (you _need_ to run this trigger if you want first heroes free, ala melee style). I'd be willing to bet that the Place Starting Units also has a special internal effect on the Town Halls too - meaning you can't just set a flag to make a unit save you from being revealed.

...If I wasn't heading to bed, I'd do up a trigger set for you - but I'm tired, and I don't think the solution will be too difficult anyway :). Scan the map for Town Halls -> if player has them, add fog of war over each building... err, perhaps? :P

The problem with replacing an existing town hall is that I'm trying to add an additional race, not replace an existing one. I not all that knowledgeable on triggering to detect town halls and such. (I'm better with special effects, cinematic stuff) So if you could tell me triggers when you get a chance, I'd appreciate it.

set the 'is a town hall' flag on.

edit: in obj editor

I selected the Stats - Classification: Town Hall setting already and everything worked fine... Except the reveal...

Well, the thing is that even blizzard uses triggers for that, they use GetPlayerTypedUnitCount to get the townhalls

Probably if you try basing the custom townhall from a valid townhall it would work.

But if it doesn't then the only way is to make it with triggers.

I think your right about only being able to do it with triggers, as I did base mine of the Town Hall building. Could tell me the trigger, or where to find it? (Preferably in GUI)

as long as you base a custom building off a town hall, or add the return gold/lumber ability it works

By base, did you mean edit the existing one or create a new unit off the existing one? I created a new building from the human town hall and the lumber\gold return works fine, but it still reveals...

Looking through the Gameplay constants and I think I might've got something here :)
bj_MELEE_CRIPPLE_TIMEOUT - 120 seconds... looks aweful like 2 minutes before being revealed to me, eh? :).

Anyhow, I'll be back in a bit here with a more proper answer I should think :).