Football Arena Walls & Bounceoff

[Mythes]

Hello,

I'm trying to create a Football game, much like the Magic Football map...
For those unfamiliar, this Magic Football map is a "hero-arena" football game, where each player picks a player and play against others in a game of football.

I'm trying to make the ball rebound when on contact with the wall... Problem is I failed to find an event that fills in the purpose "Unit gets in range of Doodad".

Thus, I tried changing what the "wall" could be.

It can't be a unit, because they show an HP bar over them. To hide the HP bar, I could Locust the unit, but then it would be passable through (it's an arena, it can't be passable through)

So, how can I make that is triggerable to make a ball bounce off it when it reaches the wall, and still doesn't have an HP bar, but isn't passable through?


If anything is confusing, please state.

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Clarifiying:
I wrote football at the title, but i meant Soccer... Sorry.. In brazil, soccer is called "futebol". I forgot that in english it's called soccer...
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Ty,
Myt.

 

[WolfieeifloW]

Use regions?

 

[UndeadDragon]

Regions would probably be the best way.

Eg: Region "Left" is entered: Do actions for left side.

And have regions all the way around.

 

[Mythes]

One region for each part of the arena? And then again, regions can bug if a unit ends up entering both regions at the same time (can happen if the unit is big enough to have "one foot on one region and another foot on another"
.)

 

[WolfieeifloW]

Unit-type check.

Unit enters a region
If unit-type of triggering unit equal to 'Ball' then..

And just make the corners of regions not overlap, but just touch.

 

[Mythes]

Even then, it still can happen for the ball to be on both regions at the same time. Let me pic that for you... (give me 1 min)

 

[UndeadDragon]

I don't think that has ever happened to me, however, I am not sure whether regions go by the center point of a unit, or the collision zone.

 

[WolfieeifloW]

It would probably go by the center.
And I don't need a picture, I understand, lol.

I don't think it can happen though.

 

[Mythes]

Will try and post results here later.
Thanks \o

 

[Happy]

it could be hard to make but why you dont make walls (dodadds) and "inside" the walls you putt dummys and then trigger if the ball gets near the dummy?

 

[Mythes]

@Happy
Kindda hard isn't that? =/
But it is viable if I run out of options. Thanks anyway Happy.

I haven't had time to try it yet (movies with my hot gf seemed better then mapping )
Will do this 2nite...

Myt.

 

[KaerfNomekop]

If you're using only one ball, you could use Unit Comes Within 100.00 of Ball 001 <gen>.

 

[Mythes]

@Kaerf
It can't be a unit, because then the walls would show HP bars.

 

[KaerfNomekop]

Er... Locust?

 

[WolfieeifloW]

It can't be a unit, because they show an HP bar over them. To hide the HP bar, I could Locust the unit, but then it would be passable through (it's an arena, it can't be passable through)

 

[Dirac]

Er... Locust?

guys don't be so cocky, hes obviously very new to this.
If you add the "Locust" ability to an unit it becomes unselectable and show no health bars

 

[KaerfNomekop]

Well, in that case you could put pathing blockers around the arena. That should work.

Apologies for not noticing that first part.

 

[Mythes]

Hello guys...
I tried making something like this.
I added Dalaran - Structures - Wall Low (Horizontal / Vertical) to make my arena, and, as each wall takes up a 128x64 grid space, I added a 128x64 region on each block. The problem now is to set the ball to kick back.
As the "ball" unit enters the region, the trigger should automaticaly calculate the angle between the entering position of the unit and the region it entered... And the problem is.. there is no "Event Response - Region being entered" or anything like that...

How do I solve this? Ideas?


Still, I'm trying the dummy idea also...

@Dummy Using

Can't use dummies because of the "Unit enters range of another unit" event; the second unit must be a specific, non-variable type.
This sucks...



Ty,
Myt.

 

[Dirac]

there was absolutely no need to create a region for each block. Do This:
Create 1 region that takes up all the arena space, if the ball leaves the region you will notice through triggers. When the ball leaves the region change it's angle to (180-angle) i think and it should simulate the bounce

 

[KaerfNomekop]

Can't the second unit be the ball? It's easier that way.