SC2Mapster

@scmapcritic: Go

No problem! I love getting feedback, critical or not. The more critical, the more it helps me improve the project in the future.

There is a great example map that comes with STARCODE that should be enough to get you started.

Here's a link to the thread: STARCODE

Be sure to thank s3rius for making a great library for us to use :)

@scmapcritic: Go

Thanks for your feedback.

I'm hesitant to try and change the pacing at this point since it is a fairly new strategy game. Once players are comfortable with the units and basic strategies there might be more rushing and other special tactics. That being said, there's nothing to stop me from tweaking things here and there to improve the variety of the gameplay.

I may work on having the alien mothership drop other things. The difficulty of the alien mothership changes depending on your rating, so as you level up it may become more of a challenge to destroy. Since the mod is so young there is still a lot of balancing to do, but I will iron these things out as it progresses forward.

As far as being too small, this is only temporary. I'm working on another map which is larger and will allow for up to 3v3 team battles. Once I fix a few glitches it should be ready to go - and the banks should transition seamlessly between the two maps.

Also get the STARCODE library so you can hash and encrypt your bank files. People will hack them otherwise. They might hack them anyway, but at least this will greatly reduce the number of people that are successful.

@Vexal: Go

That aside, how did you manage to solve this one? Just out of curiosity.

Is it possible to remove the various asteroids and derelict ship pieces from skyboxes such as Braxis Alpha or Ulnar? I'm talking about the things that sort of float in the foreground.

EDIT: D'oh! Just figured it out. You need to change the parallax model under Terrain Texture Sets to (none).

@scmapcritic: Go

My battle.net account and ID is Miles.152.

Ignore the screenshot on this page. That's just my signature.

Back in the Starcraft 1 days you could make your triggers stack by adding a whole bunch of "wait 0 seconds" triggers so they pretty much fire simultaneously instead of one after the other - which was very slow. But you don't really need that any more. The closest thing you can get to that now is a While loop.

Version 1.75

- Inventory slots 4 and 5 are now reserved for special items (EBK, CUR, rich minerals, etc.) and slot 6 is reserved for picking up expendables (grenades, medkits, etc.)

- New item: Psionic Scanner (Can be used to determine who the Psion is and what his current alignment level is)

- New weapon: Dragon FT-8

- Added new areas to the Command Center, Bar, and Garage

- An automated train now connects the CC, Bar, and Garage

- A player must now hover his cursor over a unit to see the owner's name

- Fixed various glitches caused by patch 1.3

Have you tried the action, "Change Level for Unit Ability?"

Quote from Claymuffin: Go

Strangely 3 spwn point are always grouped together and the 1 one is always alone. Also, it takes a couple of turn before more than just one or two spawn point are active.

It does that because of the way you are randomly selecting spawn points to enable. A good way to avoid this is to check if the selected Spawn Active variable is set to True first. To do that you need another local integer variable to act as a counter. So delete the four actions you used to randomly select spawn points and do this:

#First create a new integer variable in the "Unit Spawn timer and random engine" trigger 
#called "Counter"
#Second, create another integer variable called "Random"
#Now create a Set Variable action after and outside of your For Each Integer loop 
#and set Counter to 0:

General - For each integer Pick Spawn Point from 1 to 20 with increment 1, do (Actions)

            Actions

                Variable - Set Spawn Active[Pick Spawn Point] = false

         Variable - Set Counter = 0

#Then put this While loop immediately after:
While

   Conditions

        Counter <= 3

   Actions
        
        Set Random = Random integer between 1 and 20

        If
              Spawn Active[Random] = false

        Then

              Set Spawn Active[Random] = true

              Set Counter = Counter + 1

        Else

#Once finished, your trigger should look like this:

Events

        Timer - Spawn Interval expires

    Local Variables

        Pick Spawn Point = 0 <Integer>
        Counter = 0 <Integer>
        Random = 0 <Integer>

    Conditions

    Actions

        General - For each integer Pick Spawn Point from 1 to 20 with increment 1, do (Actions)

            Actions

                Variable - Set Spawn Active[Pick Spawn Point] = false

         Variable - Set Counter = 0

       While

          Conditions

               Counter <= 3

          Actions
        
               Set Random = Random integer between 1 and 20

               If
                     Spawn Active[Random] = false

               Then

                     Set Spawn Active[Random] = true

                     Set Counter = Counter + 1

               Else

         Trigger - Run Unit Spawn  (Ignore Conditions, Don't Wait until it finishes)

         Timer - Start Spawn Interval as a One Shot timer that will expire in 15.0 Game Time seconds

Quote from Claymuffin: Go

Not even sure I understand everything... How do you set the picm spawn point local variable as behing all the point integer from 1 to 20? Does it do it automatically if you leave it as a blank integer?

The For Each Integer loop does that. It takes every index from 1 to 20 and repeats the same action for each. That's why you need to select a variable for the loop to use.

Quote from Claymuffin: Go

Also, General - For each integer Select from 1 to 20 with increment 1, do (Actions)

How does the editor know what select integer is? We havn't set the variable anywhere....

Oh, but you have! You set it when you added the variable to the trigger. Then when the loop uses the variable, it sets the integer to 1, executes the actions in the loop, then goes back and sets the integer to 2 and repeats, over and over again until it reaches 20.

I hope that helps. Let me know if you still have problems.

Vexal. Your post brought me happiness. I thank you.

You're close, but you missed something in your Unit Spawn trigger.

This:

Unit - Create 1 MEAT - Fleshling (Blood) for player 15 at (Blood Fountain 1 facing 270.0 degrees) facing (Random angle) degrees (No Options)

Should be this:

Unit - Create 1 MEAT - Fleshling (Blood) for player 15 at (SpawnZone[Select] facing 270.0 degrees) facing (Random angle) degrees (No Options)

Also, you need to pick EVERY SpawnActive variable in the array and set it to false before randomly choosing 4 of them to make true. To do this, set up another For Each Integer loop using the Pick Spawn Point variable you made. Your code for the "Unit Spawn timer and random engine" should then look like this:

Events

        Timer - Spawn Interval expires

    Local Variables

        Pick Spawn Point = 0 <Integer>

    Conditions

    Actions

        General - For each integer Pick Spawn Point from 1 to 20 with increment 1, do (Actions)

            Actions

                Variable - Set Spawn Active[Pick Spawn Point] = false

         Variable - Set Spawn Active[(Random integer between 1 and 20)] = true

         Variable - Set Spawn Active[(Random integer between 1 and 20)] = true

         Variable - Set Spawn Active[(Random integer between 1 and 20)] = true

         Variable - Set Spawn Active[(Random integer between 1 and 20)] = true

         Trigger - Run Unit Spawn  (Ignore Conditions, Don't Wait until it finishes)

         Timer - Start Spawn Interval as a One Shot timer that will expire in 15.0 Game Time seconds

Notice how I moved the other actions outside of the For Each Integer loop? These actions don't rely on the Pick Spawn Point variable you made, so putting them in the loop will cause undesirable effects and clutter up your game with unnecessary code.

This map can be played as either 1v1 or a 3 player free-for-all, so you should be able to organize a game with your friends rather easily.

@aczchef: Go

Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying.