Changing the building distance

06-20-2007, 04:16 AM

I have no idea what to call this topic.

Basically I've tried to recreate some elements from Warcraft 1. One of those elements which I thought would be insanely simple, has turned into a major catastrophe:

Giving a building the ability to BUILD another Building from a distance.

Now, I've tried these things:

* Giving my town hall the human repair ability, modifying the range.
Doesn't work

* Basing my Town Hall off a Peasant and altering it so it's now a town hall, then trying to alter the build radius.
Doesn't work

* Giving my building the spell such as "Build tiny Town hall"
Not only does this not work, it insanely doesn't work. You see, when I do this, I have two problems. First problem is that this particular spell ability does NOT have a Tool Tip. Not only does it NOT have a tool tip, but when I use it to cast the spell, the player can cast the spell on TOP of the town hall, causing the town hall to be TELEPORTED a short distance away. It is a massive bug I cannot seem to fix.

Is there any way to get what I want done with this? Is there any type of spell I can use to make my town hall build a building far away from my town hall.

Or is my only solution to create an invulnerable "engineer" unit which has to remain within a certain distance of the player's buildings (if he moves out of that radius he'd be stopped and forcible returned within the town radius)?

This is driving me nuts.

06-20-2007, 08:27 AM	#2
Tide-Arc Ephemera	Um... I don't think that this can really be changed...

06-20-2007, 09:04 AM

The Elite

How about making a spell that targets a point then store that point in a variable and create a dummy builder and ordering him to make the town hall at the point.

Trigger:

Untitled Trigger 001

Events

Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability

Conditions

(Ability being cast) Equal to Make Town Hall

Actions

Set Point = (Target point of ability being cast)

Unit - Create 1 Peasant for (Owner of (Casting unit)) at Point facing Default building facing degrees

Custom script: call IssuePointOrderLocBJ( GetLastCreatedUnit(), "maketownhallrawdata", udg_Point )

06-20-2007, 02:42 PM

Kevin

because, unfortunately, I need the overlay of the buildings (road and wall) to appear on the point where the person is targeting the spell. I don't think I can do that otherwise. :sigh: There is one thing I haven't tried. Giving the town hall an item backpack with undroppable mini items that have unlimited charges to build the road and wall. Maybe that will work.

Ok, sigh, looks like I need to do the engineer route. Even when I try giving the town hall the item to use, the item still causes the town hall to teleport if I try to build next to the town hall.