Attack WALLS!! OMFG!!

[JuiceBox]

How can I make enemy units attack the wall instead of fail at trying to attack the units on the other side of the wall (when obviously they can't 'cause there's a wall blocking them)? :banghead:

 

[WastedSavior]

I dunno if there is a better way, but there is always the option of giving the walls a 1-1 attack.

Unit's that can fight back take priority over unit's that cannot, so the unit's behind that are attacking take priority over the walls defending them.

 

[PrisonLove]

You would need a custom projectile system and it would be too hard to put into this one post. Take a look at some sliding systems and such to get an idea as to how to do it.

 

[Avaleirra]

I saw something in the OE... It was like priorities or somethin, might help



/offtopic how goes the spell I sent you?

 

[JuiceBox]

@ WastedSavior:
I'll try that, thanks.

@ PrisonLive:
What do you mean?

@ Avalierrra:
What is OE? How do you do this?

 

[Joccaren]

'OE' is a shortened version of 'Object Editor'.
The section Avaleirrra is talking about is in the 'stats' section.

I believe higher priorities give the unit a higher priority of being attacked.

 

[Avaleirra]

Ya, so if you set the priority of the wall really high, the units will attack the wall first . (I think)

 

[Slapshot136]

you could make a trigger to detect where the units are and where the issued order is and then if there is a wall in the way order them to attack the wall, but this might have some "stupid" unit behavior if you order them to attack-move from far away or there is a chunk missing from the wall already

 

[JuiceBox]

Ahh alright, but what would happen if ALL their priority numbers are the same?

 

[Avaleirra]

They would choose different walls, or the closest one that can fit them

 

[Narks]

would this stop players manually targeting through walls though? i think not

 

[LmmcDarkY]

maybe you should add tiny's spell cant remember name... well that one which make all units attack casting unit and with triggers make walls to cast it every few seconds

 

[Uszi]

Put a region around where your walls are, and make a trigger that checks if there is a wall in the region and an enemy unit, then order the enemy unit to attack the wall. This will make them ignore any incoming fire from across the wall.

I used a system like the one mentioned above in a Zombie map I was working on: players had the option of building barricades in doorways, so I had to check if there was a barricade there, if there was then I had to make the Zombies attack it.


Another issue...

If the units don't even get close to the wall because they are trying to attack the units inside of the wall, and they can't find a way through (Like, they wander all over stupidly trying to find an access point), then make your walls walkable, and use triggers to stop units from crossing them, or force units to attack them. Again, this was another problem I had with my map.

 

[Avaleirra]

Another possibility is to give the wall a taunt ability and make it cast it every 2 seconds or so.

 

[Joccaren]

maybe you should add tiny's spell cant remember name... well that one which make all units attack casting unit and with triggers make walls to cast it every few seconds

Not everyone plays DotA. I don't think your even talking about Tiny, your just talking about the regular mountain giant. The ability is called taunt. You would also have to order it to cast taunt quite often if you did this and it would give a buff.

 

[kaboo]

try searching a little before posting

 

[WastedSavior]

I dunno if there is a better way, but there is always the option of giving the walls a 1-1 attack.

Unit's that can fight back take priority over unit's that cannot, so the unit's behind that are attacking take priority over the walls defending them.

try searching a little before posting

or read the first reply to this thread.

 

[JuiceBox]

"If you could make the marines invulnerable, just until the barricade is destroyed, then the attackers would ignore them."

This is from the other thread. How do you do this? Tags please, thanks.


"Make walls cast "taunt" every second."

The problem with this is that if the creeps destroys the walls (making an entrance to the builder's base), they'd still keep attacking the walls... and let the builder escape.


"Set the walls' priorities higher."

This didn't work. Not sure why.


"Give walls an attack."

I guess this will be my best bet. Hopefully it works.