Error: Unit's showing up as balls

[Killerbf21]

So the marine is the reg unit, and the balls are the units that i made fallowing this tut http://www.sc2mapster.com/api-docs/getting-started-with-galaxy-edit/creating-your/. I fallowed the steps, step by step, double, triple checked everything. Everything is the way it's set up on the tut. What is going on? Any ideas?:banghead:

 

[Builder Bob]

Your units will show up as spheres if the unit's actor does not have a model associated with it.

The field is called Art - Model.

Edit: I believe something was changed in phase 2 that made it so you have to redeclare the model for the actor when you duplicate an actor. The actor for marine points to the /marine.m3, and your duplicate will point to /marine2.m3 which does not exist. It changes it to marine2 because the new id for the duplicated actor is named marine2.

 

[Killerbf21]

Thank you so much. That was the issue. I can't believe it was something so simple like that, but alas it worked. Thanks again.

 

[Killerbf21]

Ok so instead of making multiple posts, I will just post here. Now that the model shows on the map, when i test run he has 1hp, only armor, and nothing on the command board... :banghead: When i try to move him, i get "No unit's to handle this command" or something like that. Ok... So i went and took a look at the marine, compared it to the one i made, and fixed some things.

1) Ability - Abilities + (Attack|Move)
2) Ability - Command Card + ()(Move|Attack))(Undefined|Undefined)

They basicly match the Marine, with a few things missing. But that's not important. Why won't the rine move? Why is the HP one? And why does only his armor appear? Oh, and I almost forgot. Under the Marine's Atk and Def (The reg marine) It says Light - Biological, but not on my marine... Sorry, i'm more used to W3 editor, so I know nothing about sc2 editor, except what the tut's show, and they don't explain stuff like this.

 

[Builder Bob]

Glad you got your marine showing up.

Most a unit's stats can be changed in the Unit's tab. I'm guessing you created a new unit from scratch instead of dupilicating the marine. That will create a unit without move/attack/etc commands and it will also have 1 hp and default unit types.

You have given your unit move and attack, that's good. Give it stop as well. You also have to define the abilities in your command card. For example, modify the move button: Set Command Type to Ability Command, Ability and Ability Command to Move.

The reason your unit does can't shoot is it has no weapon associate with it. You need to give it a weapon in the Combat - Weapons + field.

 

[Killerbf21]

Haha. Thank you. Also I had to mod a few of the movement fields. Only the atk command showed up, until i gave him a ms, accel rate, ect. Now he's speeding across the map one shooting stuff. Thanks a bunch. Now that i know the basic's its time to move on.