The Help Thread

[XXXconanXXX]

I am making this thread to post any snippets of information that I learn along the way and think will be useful to anyone out there who is wondering. First I will give a breif overview of the information then a screenshot and then I will rip it apart to make it more understandable. First I will start off with pathing and enabling bult buildings to be able to be built onto suraces such as rock and marble. This one is a simple one Open up the object editor and pick a unit you wish to hange so they can be put onto marble, stone, etc. and then scroll down ill you find pathing. Look at pathing - AI placement type and set that to none. This will allow you to put buildings on top of eachother or onto stone or marble. Note that if you do then they will be "ethereal" in a way allowing unit to walk through them which is very unrealistic. I will rip it apart for better understanding. When you change the [pathing - AI placement type this literally means the placement type of the unit. So if you set it to none this tells the game that it has no pathing and that it is ethereal in a way letting unit pass through them and be able to build on top of other buildings and certain terrain types. What I like to do for certain buildings is to set their pathing to something like circle of power which allows them to be built upon rock surfaces and such but also allows them to be solid in a way so unit can't pass through them like they are shadows. Also note if you want to make buildings able to be buitl upon rock surfaces then you must change the pathing - requires and set that to none. If you want to keep them solid then keep the pathing just change the reuires part.I hope this has been specific enough. O yea here is the screen shot of what it look like when a building has no pathing at all:

 

[XXXconanXXX]

Now onto to variable arrays. Variable arrays allow you to use as many different variables into one. For example if you want to keep each player into there own variable you don't create 12 different variables you create one variable array and make it's size 12. So when you start map initilization you set each of the variables numbers to each player. The only way I can think to break this down to make it mroe understandable is to give you an example. Ok let's say you want to put each player into their own variable. You'd create a trigger and set the event to map intilization. Remember that when an event occurs, the trigger will check the conditions and if the conditions are correct then it will run the actions. Ok so here's the example trigger:

setting player into variables
    Events
        Map initialization
    Conditions
    Actions
        Set player[1] = Player 1 (Red)
        Set player[2] = Player 2 (Blue)
        Set player[3] = Player 3 (Teal)
        Set player[4] = Player 4 (Purple)
        Set player[5] = Player 5 (Yellow)
        Set player[6] = Player 6 (Orange)
        Set player[7] = Player 7 (Green)
        Set player[8] = Player 8 (Pink)
        Set player[9] = Player 9 (Gray)
        Set player[10] = Player 10 (Light Blue)
        Set player[11] = Player 11 (Dark Green)
        Set player[12] = Player 12 (Brown)

If you look closely there are brackets around each number in the action. This means that I am using a variable array instead of using 12 different variables. I set the size of the variable array to 12. An easy way to understand this is to think of it as 12 different variables all into one. For each number in the variable array, I have 12 different variables.