Tower Problem

Hmm.. I am having a small problem when creating doodads based on towers. When I create a custom doodad with the model file of a tower (or any other unit that has multiple models, eg. town hall) it will randomly flick between the different types of towers. Is there a way to limit it to only one, or would I have to use a unit instead?

Same thing happened to me and this is what I did. There has to be an easier way but thats what I did.

You go on the window to the left that shows the animations and pick the one you want. Then you make a trigger.

Event
>Map Initialization

Contition

Action
>Play Unit(your unit) Animation(animation you picked)

Those triggers may be wrong since I just wrote them now from my head. Anyways, try this, it worked fine for me.

So.. You are only allowed to use the units that have multiple models as units? You cannot create a custom doodad based on it and make it stay as the version you want? That trigger will only work with units, you cannot make a doodad play a certain animation.

you can.
Thats what I did. I made a doodad and gave it the tower path and it flipped through all kinds of towers when I placed it on the map.
Then you select the type of tower you want in the animation window and use thr trigger I showed you above.

Unless thats not what you're asking...

I do not think you allowed to refer to doodads in the "play unit animation" trigger. "Does it have to be a unit" is what I am asking.

Also that only works in game. If you want to take a screenshot of it in the editor then you will probably have to find an alternative way. I also have this problem and I don't know how to solve it. I just sort of improvise. At the moment I can only see the cannon or scout tower show in the editor and I have to wait until it flicks to the one I want before I take a screenshot. Then the castle, townhall etc. is a bit of a problem too.

The only solution I can think of for this would have to be use a unit owned by neutral passive and make it have no selection scale (and light radius?). Would that make it unable to be attacked?

This is one of the more annoying things with WE. The best thing to do would be to make a custom unit instead of a doodad. Give that unit no pathing and whatever size and it's just like placing a doodad, except it's a unit.

yeah, I guess Beam's way is the simplest.

Make it a Destructiable.

Bang, you can kill it.

Bang, you can select which animation to play.

If you do it Beam's way and give it the locust ability, then its basically the exact same thing as a doodad.

Then you can OR only change the size with the same value for both X Y and Z, OR you still have to make a trigger to be able to have different X, Y en Z's.

The different forms of towers are animations instead of separate models, for some reason

Of course you can play a doodad anim by the Trigger Editor. o_O
The action you need is:
-Animation - Play animation for doodads in region (or rect.)

Greetings

You can use the Sun well model and scale the "z" to 500%