Need a bit of help

[Guest]

Does anyone know the trigger or exact method used to create new civilians for every "X" kills as seen in "Nintendo Mini Matrix?" I'm working on a new Matrix map where i want every eight kills would earn you a civilian at "Location X." I do know that Evolv2(Nintendo Mini Matrix original author) used some vespene gas as a tracker, but it's beyond me. Am I missing something simple? I'd appreciate any advice... thanks in advance.

-clawsofsteel

 

[Ilendil]

There are several ways you can do that.

1 of them, the one you said, is using resources, others are using switches.

CONDITION
- Current player kills at least 8 any unit
ACTION
- Set kills for Current player to 0
- Give 1 Vespene Gas
- Preserve Trigger

CONDITION
- Current player has at least 1 Vespene Gas
ACTION
- Deduct 1 Vespene Gas for Current player
- Create 1 Civilian at 'Location X'
- Preserve Trigger

The other way, using switches:

CONDITION
- Current player kills at least 8 any unit
ACTION
- Set kills for Current player to 0
- Set switch 'Civilian'
- Preserve Trigger

CONDITION
- Switch 'Civilian' is set
ACTION
- Clear switch 'Civilian'
- Create 1 Civilian at 'Location X'
- Preserve Trigger

I think theres more ways, but can't think of any.

 

[Guest]

thanks!

Thanks! I'm going to implement that right away, but that makes me think of two more issues before I can be sure of anything-
1. I see no "Set Kills" action- are you referring to "Set Score"? If so, this will prevent me from effectively making a leaderboard for most kills, correct?
2. I can see one obvious way to combine each pair of those triggers into one trigger. What is the difference between using one and two triggers to complete this effect?

-clawsofsteel

 

[Ilendil]

If you use only 1 trigger, it has the tendency to mess up like it will keep adding resources, civilians, etc.

They have to be spread to 2 so it will not mess up.

 

[Guest]

ack

I'm sorry, but I'm still confused- will this prevent me from using a leaderboard for kills? Nintendo Mini Matrix, among many other maps, I'm sure, still have a leaderboard.
[email protected] I'd appreciate it if you could please send an example trigger.
Thanks again
-clawsofsteel

 

[Ilendil]

Look at this thread for a different way of getting resources then:

http://the-group.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4498

 

[Guest]

Ok... now it just makes civilians constantly. Heres what my trigger reads:

PLAYERS:
'|Good Guys'
CONDITIONS:
-Current Player Kills score is at least 8.
-Current Player accumulates at most 0 gas.
ACTIONS:
-Modify score for Current Player: Subtract 8 Kills.
-Modify Resources for Current Player: Add 1 Gas.

Thats the first one. Here's the second one:

PLAYERS:
Player 1
CONDITIONS:
-Player 1 accumulates exactly 1 Gas.
ACTIONS:
-Modify Resources for Player 1: Subtract 1 Gas.
-Create 1 '|$ Unit Voucher $' at 'P1 - Civ Arrival' for Player 1.
Apply (properties)
-Preserve Trigger.

And that's it. What happens is, once the leaderboard shows a player with 8 kills, it continuously makes civs ( '|$ Unit Voucher $' ) I'm sorry for my continued stupidity over this tiny little problem. Further and hopefully culminating advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
-clawsofsteel

 

[Ilendil]

You may need to change the first trigger a bit. It seems the Set score kills is points, not unit kills. So, try making it into kill POINTS to get Gas, check the other threads to see how.

 

[KiLLeR-CrAzY]

Theres a BUG your kills arent exactly "KILLS" they are score and this will open your eyes a little a normal marine gives you 100 of score so the game will substract 8 and 8 from 100 it will create 12
Civilians and its a rine . a Larvae gives you 10 of score.

You could change that score to kills:

CONDITIONS:
-Current Player Kills At least 8 any unit.
-Current Player accumulates at most 0 gas.
ACTIONS:
-Modify score for Current Player: Subtract 8 Kills.
-Modify Resources for Current Player: Add 1 Gas

that will be kills, any unit gives you 1 kill but diferent score


C ya