Don't Laugh at Me!

[O-Kagachi]

I am trying a TD map, and was wondering if having the movement trigger say, last created unit move to blahblah region, once they get to that region, repeats trigger w/ different destination would work, cuz all the other TD triggers ive looked at are all uber complicated and shizzles... did you get all that?

 

[Red Beard]

I have never tried to make a TD nor ever look at one...

congrats for trying to make ur own tho.... it beats ripping hands down.

The thing is ALL maps are Uber complicated if u want them to be good.

Td's are no exception i'd imagine.

Have you looked at the Td tutorial on this website? Do that first then come back.

 

[Husky]

Have you looked at the Td tutorial on this website? Do that first then come back.

Bang on dude! There's a part of the tutorial just for what your looking for.

It aint that complicated I don't think...
-Husky

 

[Jindo]

Good luck also man.

TDs are one of the hardest types of maps to make. Most people just copy a TD, change the tileset and units, host it and claim to have made it from scratch .

Some people are good and decent map makers. Who make their own TD from scratch and add their own stuff into it.

I would look at a TD to get an idea of triggers even if they are difficult to understand, or you could just make a different type of TD like that Line Tower Defense.

Good luck with your TD.

~Jindo

 

[Myzteryz]

In TD's the hardest part for me was getting the terraining all symetrical...there should be a tip in the tutorial about that

 

[Jindo]

OK, here's one:

When you do one part perfect, select it and copy it, paste it wherever else you need and flip it horizontal or vertical until you get it all symmetrical

~Jindo

 

[Myzteryz]

Ye but it takes quite a lot of work to figure out the middle of the map...so u can start from there..

But thats a really good tip

 

[Husky]

OFF TOPIC: Krakka love your Avatar, I totally agree, IE sucks, Firefox all the way ...

ON TOPIC: I've tried this before but it's quite hard. Down the bottom left there are numbers in which you can find... umm... where you are... like 123x261....

Lol, sorry thats hard to explain.
-Husky

 

[Jindo]

OFF TOPIC ALSO: Hey! Firefox blocked all the images off of this site so i have to use IE to reply to this forum!

ON TOPIC ALSO: They're called coordinates , they tell you where you are on the map, it is in pixels though so that isnt good .

~Jindo

 

[Husky]

OFF TOPIC ALSO: Hey! Firefox blocked all the images off of this site so i have to use IE to reply to this forum!

OFF TOPIC: (this is kinda get out of hand but i'll say it anyway): Eh?!? It shouldn't. I always use (and always have since it came out) Firefox, and I have no problems with it.
I'm using it right now, and it all looks fine...

ON TOPIC (sorta):

They're called coordinates

Ah ha that's the word I was looking for...

it is in pixels though so that isnt good.

And yes again , that was the problem I was trying to explain...
-Husky

 

[AddE]

for the first time they spawn you cant use enters region .. so.. where they spawn should be something like this

First trigger
Events
Map initialization
Conditions
Actions
If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
If - Conditions
(Owner of (Picked unit)) Equal to Player 12 (Brown)
Then - Actions
Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units in (Spawn)) and do (Unit - Order (Picked unit) to Move To (Center of (MoveTo1)))
Else - Actions
Do nothing

so when they enters that thing MoveTo1 region.. its more easy
Second trigger
Events
Unit - A unit enters MoveTo1
Conditions
(Owner of (Entering unit)) Equal to Player 12 (Brown)
Actions
Unit - Order (Entering unit) to Move To (Center of (MoveTo2))



i think there is a tutorial for that.. and.. i dont think tds are the hardest thing to make.. who said that? my super mario rampage(current project) is much harder... XD


yeah the tutorial: http://www.world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/towerdef.php

 

[O-Kagachi]

Thx people! oh yeah, and i'll look at that tutotial...

 

[The Helper]

SD_Ryoko is an administrator here and did that tutorial - he is also the maker of Ryoko TD

Check it out at TheHelper.net Mapping Projects

 

[Jindo]

I play it loads!

Best TD ever, he didnt copy a map and change a few things, he did it from scratch... and he wrote a tutorial on it . That's what a really good map maker is like .

O-Kagachi,
Do your best and use that TD tutorial as a reference, it will help you alot and i know you will produce an excellent TD (not as good as ryokos though, that is a brilliant TD )

Good luck with your TD, your inner soul is your best hope!

I know you will do good

~Jindo

 

[Dan]

TD's Hard? nahhh... there are this funny little grid you can use to make things symetrical... i start off my dividing the map into equal squares... about four big ones with rock terrain and then littler ones with blight and so on... and then it makes it a breeze to make symetrical... especially because you can copy terrain and paste it... ^^ i think rpg's are the hardest to make... hard because it takes a lot of time and effort, after you get terrain done for td, the triggers are simple and all you have to worry about is balancing your units and towers... TESTING FUN!... just my opinion!

 

[Ralle_Janis]

Like dan, if u wanna find the middle turn on grid in view>grid>'size' and then u just have to count all the way to find the middle easy as that ^^