SC2Mapster

Quote from ST4RKiLL3R: Go

@Liquos: Go

You didn't use the 'status of player' condition at all. If your going to do something like this you will prob want to use that. And player 0 = neutral.

But that's just the thing. I tried re-doing MY trigger so it used the 'status of player' condition in the same way his did. It didn't work at all. It was only when I remade my trigger to be a 1 for 1 replica of his that it actually worked. Galaxy Editor confuses me :/

Quote from gorang: Go

How cna I place a doodad like a wall and stop units from walking through/shooting through it?

Something I just learned: Click the "pathing" icon at the top (right of the camera icon). On the left (from top to bottom) the options should be:

Painted Pathing Add Pathing No Pathing

Then "paint" the parts of your map that you want to keep from being walkable. They should become covered in red.

Awesome, it worked perfectly! Thanks!

Just out of curiosity (and for the purpose of learning), what exactly did I do wrong that made my method fail so horribly?

My map starts off with 14 ghosts - one for each player. What I want to happen is for my map to remove any ghosts of inactive players (so that if I start the game with 2 players I won't have an extra 12 ghosts standing around, doing nothing). My triggers go like this:

Remove Inactive Players
    Events
        Game - Map initialization
    Local Variables
    Conditions
    Actions
        Player Group - Pick each player in (All players) and do (Actions)
            Actions
                Unit Group - Pick each unit in (Any units in (Entire map) owned by player (Triggering player) matching Excluded: Missile, Dead, Hidden, with at most Any Amount) and do (Actions)
                    Actions
                        General - If (Conditions) then do (Actions) else do (Actions)
                            If
                                (Owner of (Triggering unit)) ==  None
                            Then
                                Unit - Kill (Triggering unit)
                            Else

This doesn't seem to work in game, and all of the units stay there (also, if there is an easier way to copy+paste triggers please tell me) Could someone tell me what I did wrong?

I'll cut to the point: I want to learn the map editor. I have slight experience in programming and making maps in SC1, so any little tricks are probably things I can figure out on my own. The problem is that I need something to get the ball rolling. I need to learn how triggers work, how the data editor works, even how to delete units I've placed. Basically, the basics.

So far, I've been able to find a lot of specific tutorials scattered here and there but they don't help much. I need something that starts from the very base and builds up. I'm sure I am not the only one with this problem, so I am just wondering: is there any full-featured, lengthy tutorial/series of tutorials I can follow and learn from?