SC2Mapster

Was mainly thinking more of a restriction of access so they can raid you directly while you have to go around to get to the base maybe via other players. Else having an arena section in a scenario where you have limited units and the zerg amush you by closing your paths off with gates while zerg jump down the cliffs and a boss unburrowing at the end. Still lots of possibilities for it.

Pages 5, 7 and 8 have the good pics.

When I made the map power system I mentioned what needed to be changed. The behaviours must be put on different units and the validators refering to the zerglings must be changed to the new unit as well.

You mean the cables swinging? I used the omegalisk tentacles (called roach tentacles) and they swing fast, maybe slowing the animation speed might help. Trouble was they were the only decent cablelike beam I know of.

Yeah just needs an Event Macro actor like the protoss buildings have that determine them to play the unpowered anims.

That should not happen. When the buildings get unpowered they are destroyed but the validators should remove the other behaviours so they get new tentacles applied when repowered. Check that the three associated visual buffs are removed correctly.

That is just the Action actor used to launch them. Just alter the attachment methods. Else it has gotten bugged in the transfer.

They got the power user behaviour on them? Odd, can you get the same issues occuring in the original demo map of the power system? The cables have about 4 different kill switches if the target or the caster loses power.

The two cables are a side effect of connecting power sources to the grid, the first one gets two cables but it should work fine for any latter power sources.

Or do you mean the very rare occurence when a building it hit simultaneously by cables before the buff is recognised? If so this occurence can be reduced by adding a randomised delay between launching the cables.

Are all cables respawned or is it just trying to connect to the building under construction?

That should be impossible since when it is unpowered the abilities of the building should be disabled unless I used the wrong power user behaviour as a base. Anyhow simple fix just disable abilities using the modify flag when the power index is 0.

Edit: Ok see the issues. Seems when a new supply structure begins construction it power surges the whole grid like one was destroyed. Also I forgot to disable the ability classes when unpowered. As for the double cables, that is a tricky one.

Also seen some cables orphan killing when connected to the main structure. Might need to rethink the visual system.

Edit: Try setting the Under Construction flag of the Are Targets validator to exluded. And I see a few mistakes in the validation of the set effects. The Visual Preset set effect needs validation using the Not Wired and the Not Wired Source validators.

Edit: Hmm seems in my original I gave the zerglings the power surge buff to test the system and forgot to remove it and it was carried over.

Edit: Ok, Test this version to see if it is better.

Edit: Made an even more robust version though might be more laggy as the self destruct timer for the cables now works on the same time scale as the power surge buff to prevent multiple cables to the same target when the network is surged.