randomness

[adjl]

just read something (think conan wrote it as a reply to something) and it gave me an idea. not sure how often it's done, but would it be a good idea to have a trigger to spawn some random doodads of a specified type in specified rects? That way, each time you played a map, the landscape would be slightly different.

 

[adjl]

ok, so it can't be done with plain doodads, but it can be done with destructibles. create a custom destructible, have the placement code, make last created destructible invulnerable.

but anyways, I guess what I'm asking is if this is a good idea to impliment in a map

 

[AceHart]

The idea is good.

But don't overdo it.
If your map needs to create 500 "Trees" at map initialisation... sounds like "lag" to me.

 

[Suicide_Note]

why have people recently been saying "rect" instead of region?

 

[XXXconanXXX]

For randomness in triggers, such as random spawns, etc., I always set an integeger variable to a random number between 2 others and then do an if/then/else for each of them I want to do. Haven't really looked into a less-time consuming way, but I may.

 

[adjl]

yeah, that's what I do too... this sorta idea could be used for random quests also...but that would be much much more complicated... I dunno if that would even be worth it on a 6 person coop sorta rpg game

 

[adjl]

oh oh oh, another idea to alleviate the initialization lag time. since in most maps, some sections are not initially viewable and therefore don't need the extra stuff, find other places that, if a person enters them, the objects for an area that they will soon access will be created. ya think that would lag bad?

 

[leetslay]

it would probably be better to have it initialized at the beginning instead of having dynamic initializations when ppl go around the map(would probably lag too much)

its interesting idea though.. maybe i should steal it.. hehehe
jooz kidding hope u make a map outta this (would love to see it)

 

[SD_Ryoko]

why have people recently been saying "rect" instead of region?

Because in JASS region functions refered to as rect (rectangle). Either way most people should understand whats being said.

 

[Sp3tZn4z]

And in WEU they use rectangle's instead of regions

 

[Suicide_Note]

oooh, good call... good call