Tutorial Making Teleports

[UndeadDragon]

Introduction

"Teleports" can be used to make units instantly travel from one location to another. Teleports are often used in RPG games to move the player to somewhere new, or to go backwards.

The Triggers

There are a few different types of teleports that can be made I will go through a couple of them.

Style 1 - Simple Instant Teleport
This is very simple to make it only needs one trigger.
First make a region where you want the teleport to be. Then use the very simple following trigger:

Enter Teleport
    Events
        Unit - A unit enters To Town <gen>
    Conditions
    Actions
        Unit - Move (Triggering unit) instantly to (Player 1 (Red) start location)

Change the "(Player 1 (Red) start location)" to wherever you want to teleport to.
You could also make the camera move to the new location by adding this:

Camera - Pan camera for (Owner of (Triggering unit)) to (Player 1(Red) start location) over 1.00 seconds

Style 2 - A teleport that let's through certain units.
This will allow certain units through but for others it will do nothing.
This also only needs one region (the teleport) and one trigger.
Here is what the trigger is:

Enter Teleport
    Events
        Unit - A unit enters To Town <gen>
    Conditions
    Actions
        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
            If - Conditions
                (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Wisp
            Then - Actions
                Do nothing
            Else - Actions
                Unit - Move (Triggering unit) instantly to (Player 1 (Red) start location)
                Camera - Pan camera for (Owner of (Triggering unit)) to (Player 1 (Red) start location) over 1.00 seconds

This will allow all units through the teleport apart from wisps, where it will do nothing. If you want the teleport to allow only one unit you can switch round the "Then" and "Else" actions, this will mean that if it is a wisp it will move it instantly to your location and if it is anything else it will do nothing.

Extra

You could add text to the region to tell you where you want to go with this other trigger:

To Town
    Events
        Time - Elapsed game time is 1.00 seconds
    Conditions
    Actions
        Floating Text - Create floating text that reads To Town  at (Center of To Town <gen>) with Z offset 0.00, using font size 12.00, color (100.00%, 100.00%, 100.00%), and 0.00% transparency
        Floating Text - Show (Last created floating text) for (All players)

You can also add effects to the teleport. Adding effects will make your teleport look much better than the unit just disappearing and reappearing onto your different locations. Heres a trigger to make an effect for when you walk onto the teleport area:

Enter Teleport
    Events
        Unit - A unit enters To Town <gen>
    Conditions
    Actions
        Unit - Move (Triggering unit) instantly to (Player 1 (Red) start location)

Special Effect - Create a special effect at (Center of To Town <gen>) using Abilities\Spells\Items\TomeOfRetraining\TomeOfRetrainingCaster.mdl[/CODE]

You may want a teleport that will place you in a random position on the map, the trigger for theat is very simple:
Enter Teleport

Events
        Unit - A unit enters To Town <gen>
    Conditions
    Actions
        Unit - Move (Triggering unit) instantly to (Random point in (Playable map area))

Thanks for reading my first Tutorial, please comment on this, I can handle it

 

[Anachron]

Easy to understand: yes
Helpful: For noobies, of course!

I would say this theme isn't a good point to make a tutorial about, but anyway, you need reputation +rep for your try

 

[UndeadDragon]

Thanks, it was based on people who were not very good on WE.

 

[Anachron]

I see, then its an excellent choice!

But eh, if they are not very good in making maps, you should remove the RPG example then, because RPG are really hard to make and alot of work

 

[UndeadDragon]

I see, then its an excellent choice!

But eh, if they are not very good in making maps, you should remove the RPG example then, because RPG are really hard to make and alot of work

You're right, I just noted that because it was the RPG I am working on that I used these triggers with

 

[Anachron]

Hehe yeah nice what kind of RPG will this be?

 

[X.Terror.X]

Floating Text - Show (Last created floating text) for (All players)

the floating text can be seen by everyone already when u create a floating text and if u are bussy with makign a tutrial u also can say the trigger to teleport from the one region to the other that one ism ostly used

 Teleporter
    Events
           A unit enters a region
    Conditions
         ---  
    Actions
           Unit - Move Unit instanlty to Region ...

or to make it more advanced

 Actions
        Unit - Move (Triggering unit) instantly to ((Position of (Triggering unit))    offset by (200.00, 0.00))

in this case u will be teleported in the X thats to left and to the right more then 0 u go to the right and less then 0 u go to the left same with Y only then u go 0+ up and -0 u go to down ( not in the air for that u need animation animation hight and to do that the first numbers are to witch hight and the other wit hwhat speed)
but the moveu nit isntanlty with 200 on the X means that uwill be telelported 200 range to the right


i know 1000 of those things i can name them but then i going ot make my ow ntopic of it

if i will do it i also make lsiding trigger that things its also with move unit instanlltiy i odnt know mabye i going to make a tutrial about

 

[Anachron]

You simply don't need to know that because you also can move the rect a bit to the side you want lol. Whatever, unessesarry.

 

[X.Terror.X]

yep and his is only for excample anyway moveing region is harder for newer guys with editor u need to work with Y and X i worked with it when i used editor for a year :banghead:

 

[Doomhammer]

Easy to understand: yes
Helpful: For noobies, of course!

I would say this theme isn't a good point to make a tutorial about, but anyway, you need reputation +rep for your try

time for me to start making lots of newbie tutorials:

looking forward to be +rep'd by you

 

[Anachron]

Well, I have to spread reputation to others first to give you reputation then also yeah, if you want, I may give you reputation for them too but not much you know?!

 

[X.Terror.X]

reputation giving?

didnt i read somethign here or did i play warcraft 3 to long

 

[Anachron]

True you get reputation for all your help and your projects

 

[UndeadDragon]

Thanks for everyone's comments.

 

[Doomhammer]

@dhk_undead_l
*lol*

(geting back to seriousness)

@UndeadDragon
you now have a one-way teleport which is a fine, simple thing.

but, since people reading this tutorial want to learn a bit, you should go a few steps further:

a) include the effects for teleporting; you know, eyecandy counts

b) create two-way portals:
this is already getting a bit more tricky, as we definitely want to avoid units getting teleported from one portal to the other and back again in endless cycles.

c) create multi-way portals:
that's where things start to get complicated, and where you can prove your sense for logic and creativity

keep in mind that a tutorial is meant to teach sth new to the average member with the average knowledge around here. The more can be learnt, the better the tutorial, I'd say.

 

[X.Terror.X]

True you get reputation for all your help and your projects

and from who u have repuation from the moderators right?

lol iahd my first reputation and it was -1 because my grammar sux XD

 

[Ghan]

When I heard "Teleports", I expected some eye-candy. Maybe you should put in some special effects to make it look nicer. Also, all of your movement triggers leak. You should fix that. And, as Doomhammer said, you could go more in-depth since the tutorial is pretty short as it is.

 

[X.Terror.X]

lol yeah i alredy said some things for excample for teleporters and it was almost the same big and that wasnt a tutrial though

 

[elmstfreddie]

You might wanna mention 1 big problem. Lets say you have teleporters to and fro each other. If you say, unit enters region 1, move to region 2. Unit enters region 2, move to region 1. They will just keep teleporting back n forth to the point where it crashes (cept you won't notice, it will crash a couple of secs once you walk onto a teleporter ^_-)

 

[X.Terror.X]

nice idia but i think u missed reading this


b) create two-way portals:
this is already getting a bit more tricky, as we definitely want to avoid units getting teleported from one portal to the other and back again in endless cycles.