Setting up new races

[Xagest]

I understand that people have been creating additional races using a dialog box at the start of the battle. I've been trying to replicate this, but to no avail.

Basically, I have a dialog box pop up that has five race buttons (Human, Orc, Undead, Night Elf, and Naga). When you click on one, it replaces your starting units accordingly.

However, whenever I try to replace the Town Hall with another Town Hall, the game locks up. Apparently, I can replace a Town Hall with a peasant quite easily, but it doesn't like the former.

Anyway, do you guys know of a tutorial or a template I can work off of? I know there's some code in the Free Trigger forum, but that crashes as well.

 

[Burning_Drag]

instead of replacing, why don't you simply create it? and also, turn on the melee trigger AFTER all units are ready. this might work

 

[Duwenbasden]

That's what I am thinking too. Delete the "Creating Starting Units" melee triggers. Before that, prompt the user for a race and dump units and buildings on the ground accordingly.

 

[Xagest]

That works just fine, but the reason why I chose to use replace instead was because creating units puts them at a weird offset. For example, the Tree of Life is just a bit too far away from the goldmine for Entangling Gold Mine to function right without having to move the tree first.

 

[Heptameron]

That works just fine, but the reason why I chose to use replace instead was because creating units puts them at a weird offset. For example, the Tree of Life is just a bit too far away from the goldmine for Entangling Gold Mine to function right without having to move the tree first.

That shouldn't happen... strange. Post the triggers?

 

[daadslfk]

You should be able to just create at center of a players starting point and put the starting point close to a gold mine. don't know why it wouldn't work.

 

[Xagest]

Here's my wtg file. I hope it's not completely hopeless. Right now it technically only works for 1 player with the rest computers.

I used Divide and Conquer as the base map. I'm reluctant to change anything I want to keep as much of the map in its original form as possible. However, it still looks like the Tree of Life starts too far for the legal distance to make an Entangled Gold mine (while in the non-edited version of the map, the tree is placed closer to mine from the start).

 

[Rad]

http://img262.imageshack.us/my.php?image=asdf5ua.jpg

You can use that, but its CRITICAL that you run AI for computers AFTER thier units are created.

 

[Xagest]

Alright, that seems to fix the issue (although it seems like it would be more complicated if my made a Night Elf-clone race, though). I'm also a bit curious as to why there's a Demon race selection in the presets.

However, there seems to be a problem with the AI. If the AI is given a race that doesn't match up with the preselected race (I set it up so that the computer randomly selects a number between 0-4 (one for each race) instead of recieving a dialog box), then the AI does nothing but collect gold and wood. Any ideas?

 

[Rad]

Make the computer starting units whatever the default race is, theres race comparison conditions etc for that. You might be able to run the AI script for a different race to (Try AI triggers)