Repick

[Walker]

What's the easiest way to make a hero repicking system for my AoS game?

 

[Darg]

event:
Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing -repick as An exact match

action:
Unit - Remove (Random unit from (Units owned by (Triggering player) matching (((Matching unit) is A Hero) Equal to True))) from the game
camera - pan camera to center of <heroPickingRegion>

 

[Walker]

Sorry, but that doesn't help me at all. I already know that, as it's extremely basic. Please see my other post to know what kind of hero picking system I'm using: http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9702

Whenever a person picks a hero on my game, it deletes the Circle of Power and turns off the trigger, removes the Wisp from the game and creates the hero at a Region.

So how do I make a repicking system out of that?
I need it to re-create the Circle of Power for the hero you had previously chosen, and to give you a new Wisp.

 

[SD_Ryoko]

All you have to do is put the two together...

add this to the end of what darg told ya.. Create a new "chooser" unit, thats all.

Unit - Create 1 Wisp for (Triggering player) at ((Picked player) start location) facing (Center of (Playable map area))

The only problem you will have? If someone keeps repicking, and your using the "REMOVE" style, then your gonna burn up all the heros... unless you have a lot.

IF thats a problem, then DONT do the remove stuff, and don't turn off the trigger.

If you want the repick, AND restrict the map to 1 of each hero, you will need more extensive code to keep track of which are in use, and which are not.

Best of luck.

Ryoko

EDIT1

Instead of removing the circle of power, hero , etc, maybe theres a way to just show/hide them? I am not sure.

EDIT2

If we could hash out the best way to do it, maybe we could do a super write up on this topic, with code? I'd be happy to whip something up for everyone. However, I use regions instead of player start locations. When I used start locations, I had a nasty bug where 1 wisp (teal) would appear in a totally incorrect spot, even though the start location was in the right place. Now I have 8 small regions, and it works perfect. Most people wouldn't do that though....I think

 

[Darg]

If we could hash out the best way to do it, maybe we could do a super write up on this topic, with code? I'd be happy to whip something up for everyone

It's really strange, the number of people asking about how to do a hero selection system has taken a massive spike in the last month or so, not just here but on other forums too. It's very quickly becoming one of the most FAQ's around these days.

 

[Walker]

So I was right. It's impossible to make the circle of power come back without very long and difficult triggers.

My game has 15 heroes per side, but it's not enough. Sometimes nasty people just keep repicking to use them all up and keep other people from having any heroes to pick! And when that happens, they're stuck with a worthless Wisp and no hero.

 

[SD_Ryoko]

LOL people are so abusive, arn't they!

My map gives them an anhk and a healing potion. People would sell them , or drop them, and repick to get new ones again

I fixed that

 

[SD_Ryoko]

OKAY

I wrote this for you. Actually, I cut / paste this for you.

This use to be super efficent, with one big trigger to handle unit picks, but for some reason:

if ( Region contains unit(chooser unit) ) equal to true

Does not work all the time, only sometimes... I am not sure why... Maybe thats too general for tiny choosing regions, but oh well.

Test this map.. It does the repick, the circle of power, items, everthing.

 

[Darg]

if ( Region contains unit(chooser unit) ) equal to true

Does not work all the time, only sometimes... I am not sure why... Maybe thats too general for tiny choosing regions, but oh well.

I spent a long time working on this one, but eventually had some luck in figuring out what's going on.

It basically comes down to a 'glitch' in the event triggering system, when the event 'unit enters region' fires, at that instant in time the unit who entered the region is generally not considered by the game to be in the region, sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. Therefore the 'region contains unit' action will typically return false in this scenario.

The solution is simple - a short wait does the trick, 0.10 or 0.20 seconds is good. What makes it nice and simple is the fact that 'entering unit' is not lost after a wait, and thus you can have this event fire multiple times simultaneously and it is guaranteed that, with a wait at the start of your trigger actions, you will never lose the 'entering unit'.

 

[SD_Ryoko]

Oh man...

To think I delted that huge frikken trigger, when I could have fixed it? LOL do not say such things! ahhhh!

That was the ONLY way I could find to make my 14 hero regions ARRAYS as well, so it was super 'ficient....one trigger to do a for loop, to find the region, and hash the rest out accordingly...

Oh well. The system I uploaded works wonders. You may want to add that to the snip-its.