Make players instantly build

[WC3Editor]

Hey,

I'm currently creating a map and I want to give some of my players the ability to create buildings instantly(like with the cheat WarpTen, but only for certain players). Thanks.

~WC3Editor

 

[Accname]

Not quite possible.
You can make a copy of all your buildings and give this copy a much faster building time. You can use the ability "chaos" to morph your copy into the original structure once the construction is completed.
If it is only 1 building you can also use the ability "tiny townhall" (its an item ability).
You can set the build time in the ability there.

 

[death_knight]

Well you could always trigger it. It could be something as basic as:

• Contruction Trigger
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Begins construction
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Set (Triggering unit) construction progress to 100%

That would be the basic layout of it. Then you could add conditions to the trigger to make sure that it only works for certain players.

 

[Xialian]

@death_knight I tried that to see if that would be the answer. I couldn't get it to work. How is it working for you, then? I just build it and it stays there and builds normally.

 

[Accname]

As far as I remember the Construction progress actions are bugged and do not work. Unless it has been patched since the last time I tried to use them.

 

[Xialian]

I don't think it has. I was trying for 30 minutes to make the process work to help OP shortly afterwards he posted, but nothing really went the right way. Too bad, though!

 

[WC3Editor]

I tried death_knight's method and it failed. I will try Accname's method next and report here if it worked.

 

[O.A]

A couple of years back i had an idea about a fifth race. It was a race that practically used magic for everything, and the concept i had for the worker of this race was somewhere on the lines of a Mageworker, that could summon buildings instantly. You could replace the workers normal Build Structure ability with a spell book ability, that had all the summoning spells for different buildings inside it. They would have a medium range (400-500, Channel, point target) so the Mage could summon buildings everywhere around him. For balance you could limit them to only 1 per player. It would of course be a fair amount of work. Anyways, just sharing.