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[smileyguyx]

How do you make units (including flying) spawn and move in a single file?

 

[Nherwyziant]

How do you make units (including flying) spawn and move in a single file?

What? move in a single file?

 

[Sirroelivan]

Do you mean for a TD? If so, just spawn them with a short wait between each spawn.

 

[smileyguyx]

yes for a TD. How am i meant to make a 'short spawn' in between spawns, or do i have to do it using a huge list of 'spawn 1 Unit A wait 0.5 seconds spawn 1 unit A etc etc'?

 

[Sirroelivan]

Use a For loop:

• Creep Spawn
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • For each (Integer A) from 1 to Nb_Of_Spawns, do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Unit - Create 1 Spawn for Player 1 (Red) at Spawn_Point facing Default building facing degrees
        • Wait 0.50 seconds

 

[Bogrim]

Using Integer A with a wait action will cause the loop to bug. Read a tutorial here.

Wait actions are not very accurate in general. Consider using a timer instead.

 

[Sirroelivan]

Ah, didn't know about that. Well, just use something like this then:

• Creep Spawn
  • Events
    • Time - Creep_Timer expires
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • Nb_Left_To_Spawn Greater than or equal to 1
      • Then - Actions
        • Set Nb_Left_To_Spawn = (Nb_Left_To_Spawn - 1)
        • Unit - Create 1 Spawn_Unit for Player 1 (Red) at Spawn_Point facing Default building facing degrees
        • Countdown Timer - Start Creep_Timer as a One-shot timer that will expire in 0.50 seconds
      • Else - Actions
        • Trigger - Turn off (This trigger)

 

[Bogrim]

That's a much better trigger, except that you don't need to turn off the trigger when the condition doesn't match (the timer not repeating will have the same effect). To use Sirroelivan's trigger, smileyguy, you just have to set the Nb_Left_To_Spawn integer variable to the number of units you wish to create and then run the trigger with the action,

• Actions
  • Set Nb_Left_To_Spawn = (Your Spawn Number)
  • Trigger - Run Creep_Timer <gen> (ignoring conditions)

 

[smileyguyx]

Cool thanks