How to: Making a Multiboard

[SD_Ryoko]

Making a Multiboard

A multiboard is a score board that can be minimized by the player. It is similar to an excel sheet. You can have multiple columns and multple rows. You can also show icons and text in a multiboard. It is a little more complicated than a leaderboard.

You declare each row individually into columns. Define every row, then define every cell on the table.

 

[SD_Ryoko]

Here is the coding for a simple multiboard with two columns. It shows player names and kills. This is a rather simple multiboard that does not fully take advantage of what it can do, but it is a basis of what you will need.

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Please see map in Free Trigger Code thread.

 

[SD_Ryoko]

Here is an example of a multiboard from Ryoko TD. It uses columns and rows to seperate players into four teams. It keeps track of lives left, and player kills.

 

[SD_Ryoko]

Original post by Darg
Here's a crude example I copied from someone on another forum

You need an integer array that keeps track of the number of kills per player. Something like
'NumberOfKills[playerIndex] = X'

You can set the size to 12 in the worldeditor.

To initialize your multiboard use the following actions in a trigger that runs near the beginning of the game:

Actions
    Multiboard - Create a multiboard with 2 columns and 1 rows, titled Your Multiboard Title...
    Set myMultiboard = (Last created multiboard)
    Set multiboardRowIndex = 1
    Player Group - Pick every player in (All players matching
           (((Picked player) slot status) Equal to Is playing)) and do (Actions)
        Loop - Actions
            Multiboard - Change the number of rows for (Last created multiboard) to 
                     ((Number of rows in (Last created multiboard)) + 1)
            Multiboard - Set the text for (Last created multiboard) item in column 1, 
                    row multiboardRowIndex to (Name of (Picked player))
            Multiboard - Set the text for (Last created multiboard) item in column 2, 
 row multiboardRowIndex to (String(NumberOfKills[(Player number of (Picked player))]))
            Set multiboardRowIndex = (multiboardRowIndex + 1)
            Multiboard - Show (Last created multiboard)

Then you need a trigger that increments the number of kills each time a unit is killed by a certain player and updates the multiboard.

Events
    Unit - A unit Dies
Conditions
    (Player number of (Owner of (Killing unit))) Less than or equal to 12
Actions
    Set NumberOfKills[(Player number of (Owner of (Killing unit)))] = 
           (NumberOfKills[(Player number of (Owner of (Killing unit)))] + 1)
    Set multiboardRowIndex = 1
    Player Group - Pick every player in (All players matching 
          (((Picked player) slot status) Equal to Is playing)) and do (Actions)
    Loop - Actions
        Multiboard - Set the text for myMultiboard item in column 2, row multiboardRowIndex to 
              (String(NumberOfKills[(Player number of (Picked player))]))
        Set multiboardRowIndex = (multiboardRowIndex + 1)

 

[xHSxPaNcHo]

CONFUSED, HELP

ok this hole multi board is really confusing to me, and if its not too much trouble i was wondering if u could help me with my multiboard...

I need mine to say

Team 1 Lives: 2
Team 2 Lives: 2
----------------------------
Name Gold Kills Hero Kills
pancho(name) 200(gold) 5(kills) 2(hero Kills)

 

[xericho]

dota multiboard

how you make it?