Stopping an air unit from using a waygate!

09-14-2004, 04:35 PM

I need to disable the waygate for all air units. Now you might think "why dont he just make a trigger that pushes them away from the waygate once they come close"... Because the air unit is supposed to go in a straight line from point A to point B, and as it is now the unit uses all waygates it can to get tehre as fast as possible. I need to stop the unit AI from using waygates.

Possible?

Or can i use some kind of unit classification that waygates doesnt accept? I tried changing targets allowed in the "Waygate" skill, but it didnt help.

edit: Found one sollution: I put air pathing blockers around them. This works, but creates a new problem: Now air cant even move over the waygates, looks kind of weird... But if you guys have no other possible sollution, ill just use these pathing blockers.

09-14-2004, 05:29 PM	#2
Frozzt	As far as I know air units can not use waygates... But it can have been added. Going to try if they can now I've tried it and air units can be teleported, I were suprised.

09-14-2004, 08:43 PM	#3
GaDDeN	Ye i thought so too at first... Oh well, these blockers work quite well. But it would still be much better if the ordered units just flew over the waygates without using...

09-14-2004, 09:33 PM

Vexorian

well I thnk this may work

Events: A unit is issued an order targetting an object
conditions
Issued ORder = order(smart)
Unit Type of (target unit of issued order) = waygate
(triggering unit) is a flying unit equal to true
Actions:
Turn off (this trigger)
Pause (triggering unit)
Set temppoint=Poisition of (target unit of issued order)
Order - Triggering unit to move to temppoint
custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_temppoint)
un pause (triggering unit)
Turn on (this trigger)

09-14-2004, 10:26 PM	#5
light_blade	I think there is a more simple solution... Just change the target allowed on waygate ability

09-15-2004, 05:47 AM	#6
GaDDeN	Lightblade: I said earlier that i had tested it, but it did not work. Waygates dont have targets allowed. Lord Vexorian: Hmm if it was somebody else who posted that, i would deffinately say "that wont work" but because its you... Ill try! 1 question: Why would it help ordering the unit to the waygate? =/

09-16-2004, 06:52 AM

Dead-Inside

Quote:

Originally Posted by GaDDeN

Lightblade: I said earlier that i had tested it, but it did not work. Waygates dont have targets allowed.

Lord Vexorian:
Hmm if it was somebody else who posted that, i would deffinately say "that wont work" but because its you... Ill try!

1 question: Why would it help ordering the unit to the waygate? =/

His trigger catches the unit that is on his way to the Waygate... Destroys the Waygate waypoint set by the comp (Just as you do when you order a unit to somewhere) and then let's the unit go, for the computer to order around again.

09-16-2004, 12:06 PM	#8
GaDDeN	Yes but temppoint is a user-created variable, not? Wont destroying the variable just destroy the variable and not the waypoint itself? Oh well ill try anyways... thanks edit: Tested it and it didnt work. Temppoint is a user created variable that can be called anything right?

09-16-2004, 12:09 PM

Vexorian

Quote:

Originally Posted by GaDDeN

Yes but temppoint is a user-created variable, not? Wont destroying the variable just destroy the variable and not the waypoint itself? Oh well ill try anyways... thanks

yes, destroying the variable doesn't destroy the point itself, cause point variables are actually helpers that represent a coordinate

09-16-2004, 02:39 PM	#10
GaDDeN	OKay... Any other ways of doing it? Cause that one didnt work... =/

09-16-2004, 04:49 PM	#11
Anitarf	You could trigger the whole waygating business, but then units wouldn't consider waygates when calculating pathing.

09-17-2004, 12:35 AM	#12
linkmaster23	Just surround the way gate with Anti-Air blockers?...

09-17-2004, 06:12 AM	#13
GaDDeN	Ye link, allrdy done that. But, as allready said, now the problem is that i dont want air to start avoiding the empty space over the waygates. Looks ugly when my bombers start turning =/

09-17-2004, 06:39 AM

#14

ObsidianTitan

Lord Vexorian had the right idea with detecting the units order vs a waygate, but his actions were trying to be too complex. Usually the best answer is the simplist one.

The events and conditions are exactly the same as vexorians.

Code:

No Flying In Waygate
    Events
        Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting an object
    Conditions
        ((Triggering unit) is A flying unit) Equal to True
        (Issued order) Equal to (Order(smart))
        (Unit-type of (Target unit of issued order)) Equal to Way Gate
    Actions
        Unit - Order (Ordered unit) to Move To (Position of (Target unit of issued order))

09-17-2004, 02:06 PM	#15
GaDDeN	Cmon u cant seriously think that will help? Ordering the unit to move AGAIN will not make it resume its previous path. What i want is so units wont use waygates, not so they will not trigger them. Maybe you missunderstood the problem?