Ai questions, help needed

I want to implement an ai in one of my maps, but i don't know where to start.

If i wanted to make an *.ai file that orders a hero to learn an ability after leveling up, where would i have to start ?


Right now i have i have a working main function with a 2 second loop. My attempts to pick all units by player with 1 or more unspent skill points have failed.

How do i refer to the player for which the ai script was started for ?


Thanks in advance

GetAiPlayer() returns the number of the player for whom the AI script was started.

How can i get heroes to learn skills ?

Even something simple as this causes the script not to get run.

call SelectHeroSkill( gg_unit_Hmkg_0006, 'AHtb' )



Is it possible to create an ai script that orders units to patrol from one location to the next ?

AI does not share global variables with trigger space so gg_unit_... is not available in AI. Why do you want to do that in AI in the first place ?

I want to make an ai for a capture the flag map and i have no idea what approach is best. Any help is appreciated.

Most AI things can be done either in AI scripts or in triggers. It is generally easier to get things to work by using triggers, because there are quite a few things that can go wrong in AI scripts. A normally good approach on any programming task is to write down what is supposed to be done, break this down in sub-problems, and then try to implement the sub-problems one by one.

Then i'll try it with triggers. Per chance, do you know of a tutorial on this, a map i could use as reference or something that would help me with this task ?

If you ask the people at the Trigger Haven, they will probably know.