My brother is working on a TD. He can edit towers already in the game just fine(change their cost, build time, projectile, damage, etc), but when he tried to duplicate a tower it didn't copy everything. Because of this, he's not really sure what to add back to it with the whole actor thing. He's been messing around with it, and the duplicated tower (he made to look like a pylon) somehow started spawning images of itself (there were hundreds of the things that spin around the crystal, and the glow was increasing)
TLDR: how to copy units effectively to change things such as model, projectile, cost, etc with relative ease. After using WC3's editor the data editor makes our brains hurt.
When you duplicate a unit, it should show a menu with a checklist for all the units' links you want to duplicate. (See screencap) Is your brother duplicating by copying and pasting?
My brother is working on a TD. He can edit towers already in the game just fine(change their cost, build time, projectile, damage, etc), but when he tried to duplicate a tower it didn't copy everything. Because of this, he's not really sure what to add back to it with the whole actor thing. He's been messing around with it, and the duplicated tower (he made to look like a pylon) somehow started spawning images of itself (there were hundreds of the things that spin around the crystal, and the glow was increasing)
TLDR: how to copy units effectively to change things such as model, projectile, cost, etc with relative ease. After using WC3's editor the data editor makes our brains hurt.
Thanks.
When you duplicate a unit, it should show a menu with a checklist for all the units' links you want to duplicate. (See screencap) Is your brother duplicating by copying and pasting?
http://rileystarcraft.blogspot.com/2010/05/tutorial-how-to-duplicate-unit-in-data.html