help a noob, please

[Shagazar]

I'm making this custom map, and I have a trigger that spawns a unit at the start location. When I go to test it, however, the unit never shows up! I can't think of anything that might have happen, and I don't think any trigger can conflict with this. Please help!

 

[Shagazar]

Just for information, I think it was because the unit was custom made. I tested it with a normal footman, and it worked fine. I dunno why though.

 

[currahee]

Hmm... do you have a specific spawn duration set up in the triggers? because I think that's the problem..

 

[XXXconanXXX]

It has nothing to do with it being custom made or not. It's probably something screwed up with the trigger or unit. But then again.... it might be a Frozen Throne only feature. Reign of Chaos doesn't have much to offer with the World Editor. Do you have any units spawning when the game starts likle the normal town hall and 5 peasants?

 

[Spastic]

What is the trigger?

BTW - if this unt is using a custom model, make sure its paths in the import editor are correct.

 

[Shagazar]

I do not have a spawn duration set, and I deleted all the melee initialization triggers. I have the Frozen Throne, and the unit was a normal Neutral Male Villager. The only things I changed about it was the name, changed the race to human, and made it able to build one structure. The structure is an arcane vault without the building abilities (blight dispel, etc.), a changed name, changed gold, lumber, and build time, and it trained a zergling.

 

[currahee]

There you go. HAve a spawn duration set for it.
In triggers. Just where you have it set to spwan have it
"elapsed game time is <integer>" and you should be fine (for the unit spawning)

 

[Shagazar]

The trigger is:
Events-Map Initialization
Conditions--none
Actions- Unit-Create 1 Villager (Male) for Player 1(Red) at (Player 1 (Red) start location) facing 270.0 degrees

 

[Spastic]

Try changing the condition to Game time - game time equals 1 second.

Map initialization is somewhat unreliable for those types of triggers.

 

[Shagazar]

I tried spawning it at Elapsed Time-0.10 seconds, but it didnt work either

 

[currahee]

Try making a small region then. Let's see if it'll spawn there.

 

[Shagazar]

And at 1.00 seconds too. But to no avail

 

[Shagazar]

That didn't work either

 

[Spastic]

Does your custom unit have a model file (under the art category)?

 

[Shagazar]

Yes. It has the Villager(Male) model.

 

[Spastic]

Would you be comfortable sending the file to [email protected]? I'll check it out.

 

[Shagazar]

K.

 

[Spastic]

The copy that you sent me does not have any custom units or triggers concerning what you have described. :\

 

[Shagazar]

oops. Hold on.

 

[XXXconanXXX]

Wow, in less than 10 minutes this thread went from 2 posts to 2 pages long.