Ship/Cannon Help

[Sefiraat]

Ok, I am making just a basic ship/trading/pirate game. I have come to the point when I need to make the ship only be able to fire form the sides. To do this I am making a dummy unit to fire when a unit enters a movable region placed at either side of the attacking ship.





When I got to the point of actually moving these region every few ticks, I got totally lost. I know it needs to find the point [some distance] away from [some degrees away] from the facing point but im lost ^^. I could use any help with this, or if you know of an easier way to do what I am trying to do. That would be great to.

 

[Sefiraat]

Little bump, really need some help with this

 

[Ancanus]

Move left rect to Position of Unit offset by 300? Towards Facing of unit - 90
Move right rect to Position of Unit offset by 300? towards facing of unit + 90

 

[Sefiraat]

that sounds right, ill try it asap, cheers

 

[PrisonLove]

With using regions though you'll run into problems if the ships rests on a diagonal. You'd be better off using unit groups and just picking the units on one of the boat.

 

[Sefiraat]

they are perfect squares, the ship can target units with an extra 78 range when diagonal, but this doesn't matter as the cannonballs are locust units with a perfectly timed expiration. The squares are just to stop the unit casting if the target is infront/behind. Thanks for trying to help, and I get what you mean, But i am happy now

 

[Rainther]

I'm actually making a little battleship map myself I do my cannons in vJass though.