Research Trigger

I need to make a neutral building that can be used by anyone on the map and has a series of buttons. I want the buttons to take gold from the player who clicked them then set the research level of another player up one notch. It's for an AoS map where I want your whole team to be able to upgrade the troop spawns armor and damage. I know how to do it with a building that can only be used by one player but not with one that can be used by all. On a side note how do I make shops show up on the minimap with the little house icons?

this trigger is a little involved as I just finish a similar trigger but mine took a little more work (requiring 1 upgrade for lvl 1, 2 more for lvl 2, 3 more (total 6) for lvl 3)

heres the set up i used:
Make a neutral passive building that sells custom units:
Melee Attack Upgrade
Melee Armor Upgrade
Ranged Attack Upgrade
etc.

Place a region around that shop.

Create the following variables:
type name
tech-type upgrades
integer researchIndex
integer playerIndex
integer array researchLevels

add this trigger:
Events - Unit enters region (the region around shop)

Conditions:
Unit type of type Melee Attack Upgrade OR Unit type of type Melee Armor Upgrade OR etc.
(note: it is important that this is all one condition or it will not work as all conditions must be true for the trigger to run

Actions:
if(unit-type of triggering unit) equal to Melee Attack upgrade set upgradeIndex = 1
if(unit-type of triggering unit) equal to Melee Armor upgrade set upgradeIndex = 2
etc.

If(owner of(triggering unit) is an ally of (town player 1) then set playerIndex = 1
If(owner of(triggering unit) is an ally of (town player 2) then set playerIndex = 2
etc.

set researchLevels[[(playerIndex*10) + upgradeIndex] = (researchLevels[[(playerIndex*10) + upgradeIndex] +1)

set research level of (upgrades[upgradeIndex]) to researchLevels[[(playerIndex*10) + upgradeIndex]

note: you should intiailize upgrades with the corresponding tech types and intialize researchLevels to 0 with a separate trigger

the researchLevels index: playerIndex*10 + researchIndex acts like a double subscripted array (as long as you dont have more than 10 separate upgrades) so initialize it for indecies 11 to (# of town players)*10 + (# of separate upgrades)

Woah that is complex. Thanks I'll go see if I can get it working. Can you link me to a modded WE that lets you enter path names for icons so I can make the units appear as the normal upgrade icons?

Ok I used your general idea to create a trigger that should work.

Event:

Unit - A unit enters UpgradeOrange <gen>

Conditions:

(unit-Type of (triggering unit)) Equal to Upgrade Attack Damage

Actions:

Game - Display to (All players) the text: Orange has just upgraded their unit attack damage.

Set AttackUpgrade = (AttackUpgrade +1)

Player - Set the current research level of Strength of the Moon to AttackUpgrade for Player 6 (Orange)

Unit - Remove (Triggering unit) from the game


Then I just changed the condition and variable for upgrading armor. I also set the # of available units of the type Armor Upgrade or Damage Upgrade to 3 each with the longest possible replenishment interval so people don't waste money trying to upgrade more than 3 times.

Now I just need a modded WE so I can make their icons look like the Night Elf armor and damage upgrade icons.

i think UMSWE lets you do this, just look for it in the downloads section

My problem is which usmwe do I use? There are like 4 and none of them say that they let you edit icons.

- UMSWE3.4.exe = standard editor
- UMSWE3.4AC.exe = standard editor with all creeps non-tileset specific
- UMSWE3.4RD.exe = standard editor with regular doodad scales (no massive or tiny ones)
- UMSWE3.4TM.exe = combines UMSWE3.4AC.exe and UMSWE3.4RD.exe
- UMSWE3.4NB.exe = original WE with only the hidden units enabled (newbie version)

That's my point. They mention like one feature. What about all the other things they supposedly have like being able to use different icons than would normally be allowed.

Use UMSWE3.4.exe he has all the features u need.

thanks!