SC2Mapster

Quote from hobbidude: Go

@admielke: Go

Do it in a seperate threaded definition. I would also stray away from the periodic trigger and also put that in a threaded definition with a loop.

If I knew how to do a threaded definition I would do it, but I'll look for a tutorial or something later today.

Update

Is this what you mean?

Quote from willuwontu: Go

Not exacly what he means. He meant an action definition. And then you just initialize it once and have a repeat forever with a wait at the end of the set with the period you want it to check.

In the Action Definition, could I check off Loop under the Options instead of adding a Repeat Forever action?

What would the Parameters be, if any?

Since there will be more than one player, will I need a parameter for Player, Unit, and each movement key variables such as WASD? Then run this Action Definition when the Map Initialization ends or whenever the actual game play that requires the unit to be moving begins?

@willuwontu: Go

So like this? If yes, then why even do an Action Definition? Or was that for the movement?

@admielke: Go

You dont need a periodic event or an infinite looping thread.

What you do it...

1. Create a behavior that does a dmg effect to all units in such a distance from the unit with the behavior.
2. Create a trigger that has an event that detects the dmg effect from the source unit to the target unit
3. Handle all logic at this point because you know the targeted unit is within the distance of the players unit...

at this point you check to see how the targeted unit belongs to and so on

easy and no infite loops

This way logic only runs when units are actually in range to it, with out any looping.

@willuwontu: Go

Easy enough. Give all of the playerUnit a behavior that does a search area, but my problem is the torch variable needs to be set to true in order to have that increased aggro range.