Make stuff easier.

10-11-2004, 05:25 PM

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I know this is really basic and lots of people probably know it and use it, but i thought i would put this up for people that may not know it.

If you have a lot of triggers that trigger for certain people and a region for that person(EX: A TD map and you have locations like Red, Blue, so on for everyone and you want them to be able to type '-destroy' to kill all the buildings in their region), you could use this.

Make a Region Array variable name for example Region. At your Map initialization trigger set every persons Region(Red, Blue, so on) to Region[(Player Number of (Triggering Player))]. Now that you have that, every time you need something done in a person region, all you use is, for example:

Unit - Create 1 Footman for (Triggering player) at (Center of Regions[(Player number of (Triggering player))]) facing Default building facing degrees

Since its such an easy trigger i wont upload a map, just give you the triggers here:

Code:

Start
    Events
        Map initialization
    Conditions
    Actions
        Set Regions[(Player number of Player 1 (Red))] = Red <gen>
        Set Regions[(Player number of Player 2 (Blue))] = Blue <gen>
        Set Regions[(Player number of Player 3 (Teal))] = Teal <gen>
        Set Regions[(Player number of Player 4 (Purple))] = Purple <gen>
        Set Regions[(Player number of Player 5 (Yellow))] = Yellow <gen>
        Set Regions[(Player number of Player 6 (Orange))] = Orange <gen>
        Set Regions[(Player number of Player 7 (Green))] = Green <gen>
        Set Regions[(Player number of Player 8 (Pink))] = Pink <gen>

Destroy
    Events
        Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing -destroy as An exact match
        Player - Player 2 (Blue) types a chat message containing -destroy as An exact match
        Player - Player 3 (Teal) types a chat message containing -destroy as An exact match
        .
        .
        .
    Conditions
    Actions
        Unit - Create 1 Footman for (Triggering player) at (Center of Regions[(Player number of (Triggering player))]) facing Default building facing degrees

10-11-2004, 07:20 PM

Vexorian

Actually if you want to make the stuff simple, you can just use a point array instead, and the player number of player 1 is always going to be 1, and you can save some event creating time too:

Code:

Start
    Events
        Map initialization
    Conditions
    Actions
        Set Points[1] = Center of (Red <gen>)
        Set Points[2] = Center of (Blue <gen>)
        Set Points[3] = Center of (Teal <gen>)
        Set Points[4] = Center of (Purple <gen>)
        Set Points[5] = Center of (Yellow <gen>)
        Set Points[6] = Center of (Orange <gen>)
        Set Points[7] = Center of (Green <gen>)
        Set Points[8] = Center of (Pink <gen>)
        Player Group (Pick every player in All Players) and do actions:
                Trigger to Destroy add the event (picked player) types a chat message containing -destroy as An exact match

Destroy
    Events
    Conditions
    Actions
        Unit - Create 1 Footman for (Triggering player) at (Points[(Player number of (Triggering player))]) facing Default building facing degrees

This way it won't even leak points each time youj type -destroy