Player's Lives Trigger

[whytespider]

hi, im very very new to worldediting so i have a question to ask. yes and ive searched the whole forum and cant find what i need.

anyways i'm making a Hero Arena map where each player has 5 lives, and the last person to use up his 5 lives wins. the problem is i dont know how to assign 5 lives to every player in the game. and also how do i subtract that live whenever a hero is killed?

is it done by using JASS or normal triggers? and how do i go about doing it. im really new so i need clear explanations....and example would be better

thanks for the help!!

 

[DM Cross]

You need to set the Lives to a variable...then, when a player is killed, subtract 1 from that variable. When the variable reaches 0, you need to make a trigger to enforce defeat upon the killed hero.

 

[whytespider]

thanks for the reply, but how and where do i set this variables?

 

[DM Cross]

Try using the Search bar on the top of the page...I see questions almost identical to this one all the time...Try searching "Hero Arena" or something like that...*Shrug* I'm sure you'll find it eventually Sorry, but I don't know the answer myself, I just see the question a lot...

 

[Regalth]

Open up the Trigger Editor. Along the top of the page, there will be an icon that looks like an X. Click that, and you will enter the Variable Editor. Click the green X, and you will be prompted to make a new variable. Set the name to Player_Lives, the type to Integer. Check the box that says Array, and for the Array Number put the number of players in your map. Volia, you have a variable! Next, put in a trigger like this:
Event: A unit Dies.
Conditions: Unit class of (Dying Unit) is Hero equal to True.
Actions: Set Player_Lives[(Player Number of (Owner of (Dying Unit)) -1] equal to (Player_Lives[(Player Number of (Owner of (Dying Unit)) -1] -1)

Then, add in an Action to revive the hero somewhere.
What this does is detect when a unit dies, check that the dying unit is a hero (not, say, a summoned unit), and reduces the owner's lives by 1. Remember that an array starts at index 0, so an array of 6 has indexes 0-5. If this is confusing, yes, I admit that arrays are a bit tricky. Check at the top of the fourms, under the Tutorials thread. The first post links to a website, and along the left side are some nice tutorials, including one on arrays that explains it a whole lot better than I did.

 

[AceHart]

> Remember that an array starts at index 0, so an array of 6 has indexes 0-5

Sorry, but, no.
An array of 6 supposedly only holds 6 values.
That's all.
No need to start at 0, or even 1 for that matter...

 

[sqrage]

well u can go almost every thing w.o JASS by just using the GUI