Gather Spawned Troops and Move Out

[Archideas]

Alright, yet another problem I've stumbled upon that I just can't seem to fix and thus turn to the people of this lovely forum.

What I'm trying to do is to every 30 second spawn 3 melee units and 1 ranged, add them to a unit group and then order that group to attack move to a destinated point.

Now, as far as the spawning goes, it's all fine. BUT, the problem is, after about the 3rd to 5th time the desired units are spawned, there's a chance the created units will either move out or stay dumbfolded where they're created. This is what my triggers look like so far.

• Events
  • Time - Every 30.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Create 3 Soldier for Player 11 (Dark Green) at (Center of Zandar Force Spawn <gen>) facing 90.00 degrees
    • Unit - Create 1 Wizard for Player 11 (Dark Green) at (Center of Zandar Force Spawn <gen>) facing 90.00 degrees
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units in Zandar Force Spawn <gen>) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • Or - Any (Conditions) are true
              • ((Picked unit) belongs to an ally of Player 11 (Dark Green)) Equal to True
              • (Unit-type of (Picked unit)) Equal to Soldier
              • (Unit-type of (Picked unit)) Equal to Wizard
            • Then - Actions
              • Unit Group - Add (Picked unit) to ZandarForces
              • Unit Group - Order ZandarForces to Attack-Move To (Center of Azrethak Boss <gen>)
            • Else - Actions

Thanks in advance for answers!

 

[Avaleirra]

You forgot to add them to the unit group


EDIT:nvm

EDIT2: does dark green have any allies?

 

[Archideas]

Dark Green has allies, yes. They're Red, Blue, Teal, Purple and Yellow just FYI.

*EDIT*

Also, Dark Green is the CPU and the allies are players. I'll change the first condition to Belongs to Dark Green instead of Belongs to an ally.

 

[Avaleirra]

Ya I was gonna say that cuz I was having problems on my map with the ally of (player) thing

 

[Archideas]

Somehow I doubt it's that that's causing the problem, or am I wrong? It just seems weird that after 3-5 times some units just stand still while others do what they're supposed to. :S

 

[Avaleirra]

Try it, it was what was killing my leaderboard

 

[Archideas]

Nope, that didn't solve it. =/

 

[Avaleirra]

Hmmmm, random guess but could it be that your condition has 2 "picked unit" functions and picked unit can only be used for one? (totally random guess)

 

[Archideas]

I have completely no idea. I'm not really that set in to it, thus I've turned to the forum for help. I'd like to avoid having too many triggers for such a simple task so I'd rather not make two different triggers for each unit type if it's avoidable.

 

[Bloodydood]

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Wait 30.00 seconds
    • Unit - Create 3 Soldier for Player 11 (Dark Green) at (Center of Zandar Force Spawn <gen>) facing 90.00 degrees
    • Unit - Create 1 Wizard for Player 11 (Dark Green) at (Center of Zandar Force Spawn <gen>) facing 90.00 degrees
    • Set Temp_Group = (Units in Zandar Force Spawn <gen> matching (((Owner of (Matching unit)) Equal to Player 11 (Dark Green)) and (((Unit-type of (Matching unit)) Equal to Soldier) or ((Unit-type of (Matching unit)) Equal to Wizard))))
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in Temp_Group and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Unit - Order (Picked unit) to Attack-Move To (Center of Azrethak Boss <gen>)
    • Custom script: call DestroyGroup (udg_Temp_Group)
    • Trigger - Run (This trigger) (ignoring conditions)

I think this should do it.

 

[Avaleirra]

Ya I can't see the problem... Maybe upload your map so that people can see? (I can't because I'm on my iPod)

EDIT: what bloodydood did looks right

 

[Bloodydood]

You can ignore the "Wait 30 seconds" and "Run This Trigger (Ignoring Conditions)" and keep the Periodic Event. I don't think there's a problem with either.

 

[Archideas]

I'll try it out right away, Bloody. I'll let you know if it works or not.

*EDIT*

Works perfectly now! Thanks Bloody and Avaleirrra for your support. + rep to you both.

**EDIT**

Instead of making a new thread, I figured I'd put another question here.

I basically want to create a spell that makes the hero with a certain ability to gain Invisibility if an enemy hero casts a spell within 800 range of said hero. How do I most efficiently work this out? I'm stuck at the part where I can efficiently add and remove units from a Unit Group that I've made for this specific spell in question.

After hero1 learns the skill it runs a trigger that checks ever 0.5 second for enemy heroes within 800 range of hero1 and if it finds one, it'll be added to the Unit Group.

I have no idea now how to remove the unit if it goes outside of range of hero1. If there's a better way to do this, please share cuz I'm stumped.