Hey, sorry for the lame title, couldn't think of anything better....anyway. I am trying to make it so a civilian, for example, spawns scarabs that fly in all directions. I am aware that scarabs cannot be created, nor told to attack normally, so I have already placed reavers with replenishing hangars in the map. There is a pylon that they are trying to attack, but the path is blocked by other buildings. The scarabs are moved to the civilian and are ordered to Junk Yard Dog. So here is what my trigger looks like:



So I've tested this trigger, and it does not work. The scarabs are moved to the civilian, but they head for the very top left corner of the map. If some enemy units wander to top left, they'll die from splash, but the scarabs do not hunt down the enemy units. The scarabs always go to top left after being moved. HOWEVER, I have now switched the reaver possession to a computer, allied to me. The scarabs now belong to my computer ally. The scarabs are being moved to the civilian, and they are tracking targets down! I have switched the above trigger possession to the computer as well. So bottom line, the scarab hunt works if it belongs to a computer, even if the civilian belongs to me. The scarab hunt does not work when they're MY reavers. Can anybody tell me why this is so? or how I can make it so I don't need a computer? I have an 8 player map and I'd really hate to take away player slots..
Thanks

Wow, thanks for this, I'd like to see answers to this. I'm having almost exactly the same problem, except that I'm using a defiler that spawns a scarab that's supposed to attack a nearby target when it casts dark swarm.

Don't you just need to give the scarabs to a computer player, then move them, then run junkyard dog on them? Junkyard dog doesn't work on human players, so if you don't want the scarabs to be CPU controlled, well I'm not sure what to do.

There IS a way to make them human controlled, but I'm not sure how. Spellsword did it, I think...

As already mentioned, human players cannot run JunkYard Dog, hence it does not work for human-controlled reavers/scarabs. To my knowledge, there is no way around it. You will have to sacrifice a computer slot if you want the spell to work like that.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Jul 24 2009, 6:55 pm by JaFF.

Oh, and be sure to put the trigger that runs the JD under the computer that owns the scarabs.

Alright, then. Thanks.

Junkyard Dog can only be run for a computer player.

However, if you give the computer Reaver that shot the Scarab to a human player after running the Junkyard Dog AI script, it will maintain the AI script. You still need a computer slot though.

omg, there was a map i played a while ago that actually did this pretty well... of course i think it did it some way by making them somehow attack to a location... I think it was called mage arena or something like that... if i find it i'll post it or something so you guys can figure it out.

edit: aha! found it in dldb, it's one of the final lvl spells, but i'm not much of a complex trigger guy myself, but enjoy! it was also made by Tank_7...
http://www.staredit.net/files/248/

edit again: o wait this uses 2 computer players... nvm... my suggestion would just be to make it a 3v3... or somehow hack sc to make it allow 10 players lol.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jul 25 2009, 4:41 am by ShredderIV.

not possible.
You can use P9-12 for certain tasks but they can't run triggers, thus they can't have actions applied that only affect Current Player, like the Junkyard dog AI.