Sending Creep Waves

[emjlr3]

maybe I am going about this all wrong or something, but I am trying to do DoTa like creep waves, so basically what is happeneing is the creeps are spawned, begin to go to the destination, then stop, turn around and go back to where they started and jsut stnad and do nothing

this is what I have


Creeps1 treants
Events
Time - Every 30.00 seconds of game time
Conditions
Actions
Unit - Create 1 Treant for Player 11 (Dark Green) at (Center of Region 018 <gen>) facing Default building facing degrees


then other is


Creeps go11 Copy 2
Events
Unit - A unit enters Region 018 <gen>
Conditions
((Unit-type of (Entering unit)) Equal to Archer) or ((Unit-type of (Entering unit)) Equal to Treant)
Actions
Unit - Order (Entering unit) to Attack-Move To (Center of Region 018 <gen>)


first off is that how I should go about maknig the creep waves, and secondly I created a wuick map with jsut two regions, and used the same kind of trigger and it worked just fine, but not in my dota map, anyone know what is up???

 

[AceHart]

> begin to go to the destination, then stop, turn around and go back

That's because Creeps tend to guard their starting spot.
Use a "player" instead of a "Neutral".

 

[emjlr3]

i dont understand what you are saying, what at the moment is neutral that isnt supposed to be?

 

[AceHart]

Units that are created for "Neutral Hostile" (or "Neutral Passive") have a tendency of wanting to go back where they came from.
Sort of like they are on guard for the place they were created in.

In melee games, for example, if the Creeps follow you... if you run away far enough,
they will simply turn and go back.

Now, if instead of giving those units to a neutral player, you used a normal player (some player of the usual players 1 to 12),
than there wouldn't be a problem.

Just set, for example, player 12 to "computer" and create the "Creeps" for that comp.

 

[xPheRe]

Looking at the trigger, it seems that it creates units for player11, that's not neutral units, so it should work... Anyhow, check the forces.

About spawning waves of creeps, I explain you my way.
You need three vars
- Levels, an integer array
- CreepUnit, an unit-type array
- CreepQuantity, another integer array

Then for each level you store in Levels the number of different creep-units that should appear in the wave, in CreepUnits store every unit-type of the creeps that should appear in the wave, and in CreepQuantity the number of units of every unit-type.
Quite confusing? Here goes an example:

-- Level 1 has 4 Murlocs --
Set Levels[1] = 1
Set CreepQuantity[1] = 4
Set CreepUnit[1] = <Murloc>

-- Level 2 has 5 Murlocs + 1 Satyr --
Set Levels[2] = 2
Set CreepQuantity[2] = 5
Set CreepUnit[2] = <Murloc>
Set CreepQuantity[3] = 1
Set CreepUnit[3] = <Satyr>

-- Level 3 has 4 Murlocs + 2 Satyrs + 1 Wendigo --
Set Levels[3] = 3
Set CreepQuantity[4] = 4
Set CreepUnit[4] = <Murloc>
Set CreepQuantity[5] = 2
Set CreepUnit[5] = <Satyr>
Set CreepQuantity[6] = 1
Set CreepUnit[6] = <Wendigo>
...

Then all you need to know is the current level and the current index in CreepUnit/CreepQuantity that the script should process

For Integer A from 1 to Levels[CurrentLevel] do
    Unit - Create CreepQuantity[Index] CreepUnit[Index] for Player 12 at <location> blah blah
    Set Index = Index + 1

 

[emjlr3]

ok well this still does not explain y it is not working in my map, maybe I could send it to someone to take a look, cuz it wont let me upload it to here, says its to big even thoguh its under 1mb