Micro AI sounds hard.. ill have a look at the effect instant method and the trigger idea is good to as it does not need to be very random.
When i started doing this map I made a tree I thought it was going to work but it crashed StarCraft whenever I loaded a testgame. I've remade it 2 times on 2 maps just to see if it was some issues to do with the map.
What I did was make the Unit and then attach a Behaviour (CBehaviorSpawn) this has all the fields I want for the unit. It can offset the spawn location and I can make a load of them offsets and have them in a random order also I can set a cost and have it on a delay. but this crashed on testing
So I duplicated spawn Larva, changed it to the tree unit and but that crashed the game as well. After that I thought maybe the game cant do units that Infinitely propagate them selves so I changed the spawning unit in the behaviour to a thor unit.
Then something odd happened the map worked as in didn't crash and the trees spawned thors but also spawned a tree with the thor (they where in a line but it was a good step closer). So I made a unit to replace the thor. And made it an invisible unit and replaced the thor so the tree would spawn and so would this invisible unit with timed life.
Loaded up the map and this time no tree spawned however I could see on the minimap the invisible units where spawning and also at random places clsoe to the tree.
All the things i want for this tree I have made just cant seem to make them at the same time at this point is when I thought I'd seek some help and got on here.
but then this morning I thought maybe i can trick the editor in to thinking its not the same unit. I duplicated my tree and all of its parts renamed them all as #2 and made it so that tree #1 would spawn tree #2 and tree #2 would spawn tree #1 guess what it crashed the testgame..
So if anyone knows how to make a unit spawn a copy of its self spontaneously (with out any interaction from players or other units) with random placement with in a range from the unit that is spawning the copy of its self. As Im all out of ideas and also its a proper road block and i basicly cant do anything to my map unit i get this fixed.
Any ideas are welcome thx!
As you can see from the attachment I have a lot of work to do once ive got this out the way. ill be making over 60 units
Ive just about fixed 2 of the issuses I had thanks to you guys however ImperialGood was right i didnt explain very well about the spawning. I tryed what u said Joey and it worked however its not what im looking for like I said my fault. Im looking for a way to spawn a unit with out any interaction from a player or any other unit, effect or anything else. I would like the tree to just make copys of its self untill it dies with random placement in a radus from the unit(tree) its being copyed from ofc all the copys do the same as the starting tree. basicly creating life :D hehe
Also Ive thought of something else id like to do with this map although I have no idea if its possible. Id like to take a ground texture and make a unit / actor out of it. ie - id like a sort of moss thats spherical and has a transparent edge anyone thing this is doable?
Ive been using the map editor for sometime now and know a bit more than the basics of map making but only a little bit.
Ive come across a problem with a map im trying to make or be it just a unit. Its a 3 part problem I have a plant or small tree and the first thing I would like to do but cant is make it spawn copys of its self. The second thing I want to do is give it a life time and the final thing id like my plant to do is start of small and grow in size over its life span.
Ive been using the map editor for sometime now and know a bit more than the basics of map making but only a little bit.
Ive come across a problem with a map im trying to make or be it just a unit. Its a 3 part problem I have a plant or small tree and the first thing I would like to do but cant is make it spawn copys of its self. The second thing I want to do is give it a life time and the final thing id like my plant to do is start of small and grow over its life span.
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Micro AI sounds hard.. ill have a look at the effect instant method and the trigger idea is good to as it does not need to be very random.
When i started doing this map I made a tree I thought it was going to work but it crashed StarCraft whenever I loaded a testgame. I've remade it 2 times on 2 maps just to see if it was some issues to do with the map.
What I did was make the Unit and then attach a Behaviour (CBehaviorSpawn) this has all the fields I want for the unit. It can offset the spawn location and I can make a load of them offsets and have them in a random order also I can set a cost and have it on a delay. but this crashed on testing
So I duplicated spawn Larva, changed it to the tree unit and but that crashed the game as well. After that I thought maybe the game cant do units that Infinitely propagate them selves so I changed the spawning unit in the behaviour to a thor unit.
Then something odd happened the map worked as in didn't crash and the trees spawned thors but also spawned a tree with the thor (they where in a line but it was a good step closer). So I made a unit to replace the thor. And made it an invisible unit and replaced the thor so the tree would spawn and so would this invisible unit with timed life.
Loaded up the map and this time no tree spawned however I could see on the minimap the invisible units where spawning and also at random places clsoe to the tree.
All the things i want for this tree I have made just cant seem to make them at the same time at this point is when I thought I'd seek some help and got on here.
but then this morning I thought maybe i can trick the editor in to thinking its not the same unit. I duplicated my tree and all of its parts renamed them all as #2 and made it so that tree #1 would spawn tree #2 and tree #2 would spawn tree #1 guess what it crashed the testgame..
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So if anyone knows how to make a unit spawn a copy of its self spontaneously (with out any interaction from players or other units) with random placement with in a range from the unit that is spawning the copy of its self. As Im all out of ideas and also its a proper road block and i basicly cant do anything to my map unit i get this fixed.
Any ideas are welcome thx!
As you can see from the attachment I have a lot of work to do once ive got this out the way. ill be making over 60 units
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Thanks for the replys dudes.
Ive just about fixed 2 of the issuses I had thanks to you guys however ImperialGood was right i didnt explain very well about the spawning. I tryed what u said Joey and it worked however its not what im looking for like I said my fault. Im looking for a way to spawn a unit with out any interaction from a player or any other unit, effect or anything else. I would like the tree to just make copys of its self untill it dies with random placement in a radus from the unit(tree) its being copyed from ofc all the copys do the same as the starting tree. basicly creating life :D hehe
Also Ive thought of something else id like to do with this map although I have no idea if its possible. Id like to take a ground texture and make a unit / actor out of it. ie - id like a sort of moss thats spherical and has a transparent edge anyone thing this is doable?
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Hi There Im new this is my first thread!
Ive been using the map editor for sometime now and know a bit more than the basics of map making but only a little bit.
Ive come across a problem with a map im trying to make or be it just a unit. Its a 3 part problem I have a plant or small tree and the first thing I would like to do but cant is make it spawn copys of its self. The second thing I want to do is give it a life time and the final thing id like my plant to do is start of small and grow in size over its life span.
Any Help would be Epic thanks
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Hi There
Ive been using the map editor for sometime now and know a bit more than the basics of map making but only a little bit.
Ive come across a problem with a map im trying to make or be it just a unit. Its a 3 part problem I have a plant or small tree and the first thing I would like to do but cant is make it spawn copys of its self. The second thing I want to do is give it a life time and the final thing id like my plant to do is start of small and grow over its life span.
Any Help would be Epic thanks