Trap fire

[Mind]

How do you let Trap fire do damage to units who step on it?

 

[Darg]

you could make a unit with the model of the fire trap, and do the following:

- give it a very small attack range, maybe 75
- set the attack cooldown to something appropriate, maybe similar to the interval between spouts of flame
- change its 'stats - unit classification' field to 'walkable'.
- set its movement - speed base field to zero.
- set the sound - unit sound set field to 'none'

This way, when the units walk over it, the fire trap unit will attack them, and the player will be given the illusion that the unit is being burnt by the flame trap.

 

[Mind]

Sorry, but what about the timing? It has to damage units when the trap fires a jet of flame. So if you walk across, the trap will attack the unit anyway, even if the trap doesn't fire a jet of flame.

 

[Darg]

well if you take a look at the fire trap you'll notice it has 2 animations, stand and death. Death is when there is no flame, and stand is when you can see a flame.

So you can do 1 of 2 things:

1. control the flame spouts by having a periodic trigger that cycles between death and stand animations. See the action 'animation - play unit animation'

2. have the death animation on all the time, and have the event 'a unit is attacked' to detect when the flame trap is attacking a unit, and then play its stand animation at that instant.