SC2Mapster

In conjunction with my other similar named thread in the data section, I want to ask what would be a good and reliable way to do the trigger part of this.

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My map has 6 control points. I want people to cast an ability X seconds to claim a control point. After claiming it, a certain time should need to pass until they capture the control point, but it should happen automatically. When captured, a control point should give resources periodically and 'victory points'. If a hero dies, he should be revived at the closest captured control point.

The flag should work a similar way. People shall cast an ability X seconds to pick up the flag. Capturing it is done by bringing it to a captured control point. Capturing shall also grant victory points.

Further I need a lot of things which I can't do myself.

• A hero selection screen
• A custom UI element that constantly shows the victory points of each team
• A leaderboard
• A dialog based shop (or if someone knows a better way...)
• And if possible, an entire custom UI narrowed down to the important parts (since a hero battle map does require less functionality than melee or at least different)

Of course I can live without the latter two, but the first 3 would really be nice.

For a start it would also be nice how to make a revive trigger which revives my heros at the closest point IF they own the corresponding control point.

There are two teams. Say a hero from team one dies. The trigger needs to find the closest point owned by this team to revive the unit there.

My respawn points are points I placed. I think I can use preplaced units, but it should be possible with set points more easily, shouldn't it?

And I want closest point to unit death. It would also be good to know how to do a good revive for heros - the revive action of triggers seems to be quite good or should I take care with it?

Then I will probably make the respawn points units. Would be nice if you could present me a more thorough version of the trigger tho, as points are really a bit annoying to me.

Also I slowly need a proper revive system. Currently my units are losing all their attribute points when I revive them. I use a single veterancy for all my heros and add attributes via a trigger whenever they level up. Their starting attributes are also added when they are created. For that I have behaviors that give 1 attribute point that can stack.

Would it save work if I make a different veterancy for each hero and add their starting attributes with a behavior that is different for each unit, or would that rather increase the work?

The only problem I have - I can't get the position of a unit that dies. I think it's because if a unit dies it's gone and thus it doesn't have a position anymore. That already broke my neck when I tried to make a flag carrying unit drop the flag on death (I can't use items for that).

I guess it's a problem with my condition - I want the flag object to spawn when a unit carrying the flag dies, but obviously it can't check for the behavior when the unit died. I guess I can solve this via a death effect on the flag behavior that spawns the unit.

The "revive at closest spawn point" trigger works fine tho.

Now I just need to find a good system for the attributes not getting reset when reviving.

Edit: Got my stuff working so far - now I need a good hero selection and a way to display the victory points of each side constantly. Aside from this I only need to add heros and items and the game is ready to go.

I could really need some help with a few things here.

• I have a hero selection - it opens a dialog at the start of the game. When you click a button the abilities of the hero get displayed in a second dialog and there is an "accept" button. I need a way to disable the hero after it was picked for the team - problem is mostly if two people have the same hero description open and one selects it, the other will even if the button becomes unavailable be able to click "accept".
• I still need a way to display the victory points on each side. They are just a global variable.

I got the points display working - I just made it an "repeat forever" trigger that updates the VP constantly.

As for the hero selection - the question is how I can determine if someone has the dialog of a picked hero open or not? I don't want the dialog to close every time someone picks a hero as that would be very annoying.

There is a wait in the repeat forever, 0,5 seconds.

It's not that easy - the dialog opening for hero A is the same dialog as for hero B/C and so on - the dialog items get their text from an array and when you click a hero button that array gets set to certain values to display the right text for each hero.

Or would it still work this way?