HEROES V - The big mistake!

[San-D]

I started making a map that is a copy of Heroes V, but in warcraft. All was unbelieveably smooth.,.. untill I got to the battlefield. My battlefield is a patch of Grass, with 16x16 grid of small, identical regions. the problem. How can I make the player select a region to move to IN-GAME?

 

[Larcenist]

You could use Circles of Power, then for each attempted movement, you swap locations between the circle of power-unit and your troops.

Off topic: I'm having a similar problem, trying to make a chess in WC3. Do not ever try to make a chess in WC3 ^^

 

[San-D]

, K, maybe its a bit messed up! To all who have palyed Heroes 5(3 is good too) : When two Heroes clash, they get teleported to my battlefield with thier respective armies.

-IN WE

My battlefiled is a grid of 256 (16x16) regions

-In-Game

How can I make the "Grid" visible to a player or make the units somehow move just like in H5, depending on their speed?

 

[San-D]

You could use Circles of Power, then for each attempted movement, you swap locations between the circle of power-unit and your troops.

Off topic: I'm having a similar problem, trying to make a chess in WC3. Do not ever try to make a chess in WC3 ^^

It as GREAT idea (+rep), but an advice to u too - dont use circles of power on a grid that requiers 20-40 visible fields, its too ugly and eye-piercing . Use some flat square thingies u find

 

[Larcenist]

They well I'm using regular black/white square tiles for the chessboard. Though I was using circle of powers to indicate possible moves (turning them green), possible attack moves (turning them red) and moves that does not work.

The real problem with making a chess is that I'll have do to one trigger for each unit that can stand on different squares, so the queen and king for example would need 64 trigger each...

 

[San-D]

Just think up a formula that combines all them or at least some

 

[San-D]

Is there a way to detect if a player's cursor is curently over a region

 

[oorosco]

I don't think you can detect cursors unless they click...

 

[San-D]

Thats perfect. How do I detect if a cursor has clicked in a region

 

[oorosco]

By that i meant clicks on a unit- sorry, you can always just make a unit with a very large selection place it in the center. (Make it a walkable) and whenever a unit enters range add locust to it so it don't interfere with the unit.

 

[San-D]

Thats not what I meant. If u have played H5 Imagine this:
The green squares that indicate where the curent unit on turn can move to, are my 256 regions. In H5 if u click on a square the unit goes to that point. Can I detect in WC if the player's clicking point is in region 1 or not (clicking means Right-Clicking/Move order)

 

[oorosco]

Here you go

Untitled Trigger 003
    Events
        Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting a point
    Conditions
    Actions
        Set point = (Target point of issued order)
        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
            If - Conditions
                ((Playable map area) contains point) Equal to True
            Then - Actions
            Else - Actions

 

[San-D]

10x! I can't imagine doing 256 triggers, but thats a great lead!

LOOPS, I dont need 256 trigs

 

[PurgeandFire]

Clicks and mouse hovering requires JASS's trackables, which aren't even flexible at all. (You can't even destroy them!)

And, to make this trigger work, you would probably have to set a ton of variables to each region. Takes a long time but it is hard to do it any other way. The only way I would do it would be in JASS and use textmacros, (as long as the regions have similar names)