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I want to make Spaceships. I want to make like a "chain gun" ability (effect-instant) that will fire automatically a missile in a straight line toward where the ship is facing (with a limited range if possible) ... How can i do that ? Not having to choose target unit or target point.

Secondly, how can i add ammo (limited quantity of missiles), and rechargeable close to a target point ? (like a base)

Your help is appreciated,

Mac

@DrSuperEvil: Go

Roger ;)

@DrSuperEvil: Go

Ok thx alot for those answers, i'll check that when i have time !

I'll maybe have more questions as i go on, so don't forget to reread this tread every week lol, you are my light in the darkness of the editor :p

Ok, new questions !

1) I made a 'health regen' tower, with the medic beam, how can i do so that the beams starts at the middle of my obelisk (my model for my tower), where the blue circle is ? I've tryed messing around with the Site actors, but it didn't make it work ... A tutorial would be really appreciated on that one !

I also made a defense tower (with photon cannon model), and gave it a new weapon ... I have the same problem : i would like my missile to come out from the little ball of the photon cannon.

2) With the same cannon, everything works fine, except that i would like my new weapon to have a shorter period than the original one, which causes a delay between the attack animation of the cannon, and the missile launched ... How can i set the period or speed of the attack animation ?

@ckSynergy: Go

thx alot bro !

@ckSynergy: Go

Ok ok ok ... i know it seems noob, but what is the GUI ? Is it an interface where i just copy paste all the codes that are in color, and that will magically do my inventory like as shown ?

For the XML view, i knew we could see it, i just didn't know where to add those codes ...

I would really appreciate if you could explain to me like i'm 5 how to use these codes.

Thanks alot for your help so far,

Mac

@DrSuperEvil: Go

Ok, thanks, i'll check with what you gave me, and if i have other questions i'll post them here.

For the beam, nothing worked, so i just gave it a green color that seems to work great !

@DrSuperEvil: Go

1) i don't want to teleport them ... I just want to do something like they can't cross a doodad until they reached a minimum level ... I'm really new to triggers, so a good explanation Would be appreciated !

2) Whenever i Try to open a second Map with the editor, the first one is replaced ... Is it because i do something wrong, or because i am on a Mac ???

3) Check my 3rd question too plz

Thx for the help !

So i have a couple of questions i would like you guys to help me with !

1) I made heroes, with 60 levels on each ... How can i restrict access to areas for heroes under level 'X' ??? A door would be the best to fit in my map, but any other solution is appreciated.

2) When i see some cool stuffs on maps that are published on mapster or internet, how can i copy them in MY map ... The editor won't let me have 2 differents map open, and copy paste don't work when i close the first map and open the second :( (I am on a Mac. Also, please explain like i'm 5 on this one). Exemple of map elements i would like to add to my own map : http://www.sc2mapster.com/maps/saveload-

3) i made a Health regenerator, and i used the medic heal beam, and setted her tint color to red ... The problem is that thé beam is too light, and its hard to see it. Howard CAN i make it darker ?

Maybe more questions to come, so please look the comments

Any help is appreciated,

Thank you !

@Bilxor: Go

Of course not, even if i'm in the data section, i always appreciate any solution to my problems, even if it uses trigger.

Thanks alot for the answer, but i'll check first if Blizzard didn't modify the learn ability with the new patch ... :)

Nobody found a way ?!? Even with the new patch ?

@ckSynergy: Go

Ok ... until now, i was making abilities with behaviors, effects, requirements etc ... using the data editor. I used trigger too once to make a hero selector.

I've followed many tutorials, but this is the first that is not a Data/Trigger one ... all the green, red and other color writings, i don't know how to use them; and i would really like to add this inventory to my map. Can you explain me what to do with the color sentences and values ?

@fishy77: Go

Does your ability have different levels ? if yes, you have to put a C.D. for EACH level ...

The correct value to change is 'Time - Use' in the "cool down" section (close to bottom of the page). I believe you just made a little dumb mistake on where you placed the C.D value ... so check that, and if it's not that, i can't really help you 3:

Also, what type of abilities are they ?

I made a 60 level hero, with a learn ability that includes 4 abilities of 5 levels each ...

My hero gains one charge each time he levels up, so he has 60 at the end, while only 20 are gonna be used.

The problem is i don't want 40 charges to be there unusefull (that would be ugly O.o).

So now i made my learnable levels cost 3 vespenes each (3 x 20 = 60 and it replaces the charges), but the problem is that the learn ability 'X' button still requires a charge ! How can i get rid of the charges, or just hide them and give 20 at the beginning ?

Also, how can i do so that each time my hero gains a level, he gains one vespene ???

Any help is appreciated !!!

@ckSynergy: Go

Thx for the help, but i understand what the inventory is ... i would like to know how to addict to my map, because i have no idea what to do with those chinese writings in colors ;D