Open Gate?

[Sk8z]

Hey im having some trouble getting something to work. any help would be thankful, here is my problem:

Im trying to get a gate to open, but the thing is ive made the gate upgradeable, and in order to do that i hade create a new Unit and use the Gate as the model in order to make it upgradeable, basically the problem is, i cant make the gate open because it is a Unit. And ive looked up and down through the triggers, and conditions and havent been able to get the gate to open because it is a unit now, and no longer a Destructable.

Is there anyway to make the Gate open as a unit and not a destructable?

For the gate to open, i would want to make it so the owner of the gate says "-open" for it to open and "-close" for it to close.

is this possible?
Thanks in advance

 

[Laika.]

Hmm, this is just a guess but I think that the 'opening' animation for gates is the models dying animation. You could try that.

 

[Sk8z]

Hmm

I kind of understand the concept that your trying to get at.. use the animation when the command is entered? and it should open, but how would i go about implementing that?

 

[me.]

hmm.. instead of doing this why dont u make a trigger taht says when an upgrade is researched, it will increase the gates hit points?

 

[SilverHawk]

The gate opening is the alternate death animation.

 

[Sk8z]

?

I still dont quite grasp the idea of how to get this working..

ive tried the ideas posted in here but came up with no progress, sadly

are there any other possible ways to do this?

with the commands : "-open" opening a gate for a certain player
"-close" close a gate for a certain player

any help, thank you

 

[hodge]

It's simple really...
you made the destructible a unit... i suggest you forget that idea for the
mean time...
and here is a good idea

Event
player owned by player 1 finishes an upgrade

Condition
tech-type comparison (make an upgrade that pretty much does nothing)

Action
Destructible - set max life of (the gate you want) to (life)



Now for the open gate

Event
Player1 types a chat message containing -open as An exact match

Condition
none needed

Action
Destructible - open (the gate you want)




Heres a suggestion you might like in your map
create 2 skills using warstomp in your object editor
-remove damage
-remove animations (or add stand and then add channel so it would look like he's doing some fancy stuff like ordering the people to open the gate)
-add a hotkey for this skill
-change name of skill to desired (something related with the gate)
-set the mana to desired amount
-hero ability = false
-set cooldown - i suggest 3 or 4 seconds
-set art -button position to x=2 y=1
the learn button will be disabled anyway once you restart the map editor
so lets leave that as it is...
so your all set with the skills


Now for the trigger lets say your gate is gateX and your skill is
open gate and close gate


For the open gate

Event
A unit owned by player1 begins casting an ability

Condition
if ability equals to open gate

Action
Destructible - Open gateX
Wait 1 seconds
Unit - remove ability open gate from Event response casting unit
Unit - add ability close gate to Event response casting unit

Finally to close gate


Event
A unit owned by player1 begins casting an ability

Condition
if ability equals to close gate

Action
Destructible - Close gateX
Wait 1 seconds
Unit - remove ability close gate from Event response casting unit
Unit - add ability open gate to Event response casting unit


It's a little long but hell, dont you think its a cute idea?
just a suggestion~ have fun and i hope you understood what i was
typing... this was long...

 

[Sk8z]

Thanks

thank you, i figured it out, all help is appreciated, i liked that idea in the last one, i tried it out and it works well, but i decided in the end to stick with the command based opening of the gate.

a couple more things..

1.) is it possible for a certain player to own a destructable?

2.) how do i make a destructable upgradeable?

 

[crazedcougar]

Hi,
i recently made my own gate unit, and found these icons if you want:

http://wc3sear.ch/index.php?p=Icons&Authors=Quickshot14

also if you want the gate to animate (bow) when it takes damage, hopefully soon i can tell you that (having some problems with jass ATM)

 

[hodge]

read my post on top~ it tells you how to upgrade it~
ciao~