SC2Mapster

Quote from BasharTeg: Go

Testing with multiple people is helpful too because you will probably have more events firing and threads running at once. It's not a big deal if your triggers are relatively basic, but for complex systems it's almost a necessity to test online with multiple people.

Such a preliminary test is already scheduled with my friends. However, how far should I go with my performance tweaks in SC2? Most of my life I made War3-Maps where every little bit of performance tweak should be implemented in order to allow the game to run smoothly (and not f*ck up the AI etc). This went so far, as to not update leaderboards every .5 seconds but only every 4secs. Are such frequent updates ok in Starcraft 2 times? (The update just fills in data, does not compute anything complicated and a frequent update is justified, because there is a change of these stats multiple times per second.)

Quote from Kueken531: Go

Hey.

Did you try this in test mode only, or did you actually upload a test version to the battlenet and tested it there? This makes a huge difference, testing usually results in way more lags, especially if you use the debug window.

I only tried it locally and with debug window enabled. My thought process was: If it lags offline, I don't wanna know what it does with latency and people's not so good computers :E But from your postcount I infer you know what you are talking about. Thank you for your tip. I will try it later at home.

Hi everyone,

I googled a lot, but couldn't find anything >.< When units enter an area I like to play some sort of "warp in special effect". I tried creating an actor there (and even deleting these actors afterwards), but the game becomes unbelievably laggy after a short period of time. Simplified version of my trigger:

    Events
        Unit - Any Unit Enters CenterSpawnArea
    Local Variables
        actor = No Actor <Actor>
    Actions
        Actor - Create actor HybridC - Hybrid Blink In at point (Position of (Triggering unit))
        Variable - Set actor = (Last created actor)
        General - Wait 3.0 Game Time seconds
        Actor - Kill actor model actor

Is there a better way to do this?

What realms are you guys on? I just logged in (0700 cet 16.2.2012) and Squad TD was there and perfectly playable :o

However there are several things in SquadTD that I don't like so good luck creating a better alternative. I will dfntly play it.

Quote from Ahli634: Go

Follow the path from the weapon over the effects to the effects you want.

For your task you would need to set the impact effect of the projectile to the psi storm's starting effect which should be a "create persistent" effect.

If you are shooting projectiles, you need an actor with the type action which contains the projectiles starting and end effect to perform actions like finding attachment points from where it is launched and where it visually will hit the enemy.

You might want to create an effect set containing the photon cannons damage and the psi storm effect as the projectile's hit effect to deal direct damage to the target and cast the psi-storm in addition to that.

OMG. I think I have tried every effect except the persistent effect :E Thank you for you quick response and for everyone else looking for a solution:

Phase Cannon - Photon Cannon (Launch Missile) -> Effect: Impact Effect: High Templar - Psi Storm (Persistent)

• battlecruisers + nukes here i come muhahahahahah you have been disconnected from bnet due to uber-lag*

Hi everyone,

I searched a bit around, because I am very sure this has been explained somewhere already plus it is probably not very hard to do. Nether the less, I am unable to make it work (without triggers) and I am very sure it can be done quite simply without triggers (if not, that's no problem tbh).

Problem: make a defense-turret-structure-thing (in a TD or siege map) create a spell effect at the target area. For example a photon cannon creates a psi-storm on impact (including visuals, buffs, dmg, etc).

I bet this is rather easy, but there is some part about effects and/or behaviours I haven't understood/found, yet, that prevents me from doing such things.

Thank you in advance and have a nice day :)

I haven't read all of your five tutorials, yet, but this one made a nice impression and I will dfntly take a look at the others. Good job man.

Quote from Colt556: Quote from zeldarules28: Go I hate TD's because they are too passive. :) But whatever, its not that big of a deal. Maybe the protoss/terran base could be controlled by another team of players? Maybe you could take out some important structures in the base to cripple them? The most popular maps on bnet at the moment are tug maps, which is "passive" gameplay where all you do is build a building and watch the creeps attack. So the game being passive in that regard is probably a bonus given the current system.

I had a double nested for-loop with a very deep if then else (if then else (...)) in it and got the same error. It was really frustrating! Thanks for the help, I think I can redo the original code now \o/