Terrain Penalties

[team.ism]

I want to make a trigger that decreases a players helath if they are standing on lava terrain. (from the dungeon tileset)
Also, I want to make it take no damage if the unit has a certain item, say some magic lava walkin' boots.

I cannot find an event that start when a unit walks on a certain terrain. Any ideas?

 

[xPheRe]

This is one of those moments when you need a "Time - Every (really small amount of) seconds of game time", like 0.1, 0.3, 0.5...
Then check for every unit if they stand on a specifical tileset with the condition "(Terrain type at (Position of (Picked unit))) Equal to Underground - Lava"
Also check for the units that have an item.

I think it should lag your map a lot, so I'd rather prefer to create regions for every not-wanted-to-cross path, check for Entering units and deal damage to those units every second until they leave the region.
It involves more triggers and also a "Every 1.0 second of game time" but it only picks the units that entered a forbidden zone.

If I'm not explaining it good, ask me to post some triggers and I will do

 

[Killfest2]

There is a trigger in the Free Trigger Code thread (Stickyed) which has some very similar concepts to this - it is on Page 4. I think it is slighly different in the end action, but the whole "tile penalty" thing is the same - check it out.

 

[Jindo]

there is a similar trigger in my maze tutorial but it wont do exactly what you want it to do, but killfest is right, there is one in the free trigger code thread.

Look there and then you should find it.

Hope this helps, good luck.

~Jindo

 

[Killfest2]

Here's the exact extract of his post in the 'Free Trigger Code' thread, Page 4.

Hi,
Okay I was using this trigger in my map and I just thought that some of you may find it useful...

Can't/Can Build on Terrain Type
    Events
        Unit - A unit Begins construction
    Conditions
        (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to *Your Building*
        (Terrain type at (Position of (Triggering unit))) Not equal/Equal to *Your Terrain*
    Actions
        Unit - Remove (Constructing structure) from the game
        Player - Add *cost of buildings gold* to (Picked player) Current gold (becuase it costs 50 gold, and to get money back) 
        Player - Add *cost of buildings lumber* to (Picked player) Current lumber

Another thing is goto Object Editor>Your Building>Pathing Placements, you can change stuff here so that you can build buildings on unbuildable terrain.

Thanks to AgentPaper for the Trigger idea, although the Trigger was created by me.
Hope that helps,
-Husky

Obviously, you will change the actions, and probably alter the event slightly, but the conditions and the general trigger is right, just a few minor changes.

- Killfest2