Hi guys! Basically when a team is down to the last man, a location will follow him around. And when the last unit dies, I create a crystal for him. Another team can pick that crystal up and take it to their base, thereby reviving the player. Now, the problem is, when the last unit is an airborn unit, and dies, I can't create the crystal on water. So is there an easy way of doing this?

Now I though of creating locations around the map that are purely on land, and checking whether the last unit is on land. But this could get messy.....Is there an easier way of doing this?

Thanks i advance.

Locations have flags for low ground, medium ground, high ground, low air, medium air, and high air. Just check them off accordingly.

Thanks...I tired that already....like for ground units, when I enable high ground + medium ground, if the unit doesn't move over water, it works......But what settings would I use for air units.......To check whether an air unit is over land or water?

I think low air = over water, medium air = over dirt/jungle/mud/etc, high air = over high dirt and everything on it.

Thanks again, I will check this out right now and let you know!

Thanks for the prompt reply!

Actually I'am testing this right now.....but whenever I use 'LOW AIR' it is considering the low lands and water! Hmm...will still try to work on this! By the way, what should I use as the trigger??
If Player 1 brings atleast 1 man to FULL_MAP_LOCATION, MOVE LAST_MAN_LOCATION to MAN at FULL_MAP_LOCATION.

RIGHT???

I haven't mapped in a while so feel free to take this with a grain of salt, but I think if you create the unit on walkable null (the null tiles next to creep in the tileset index) and the move it to the location, it should be able to move anywhere.

If that doesn't work, have a unit outside of the playing area move to the last man's location. If it isn't there, then the unit is over an unwalkable area and you can do stuff accordingly.

An easier way that you could bypass this would be to just use an air unit, such as a scourge, as your crystal instead of actually using a crystal. Yes, I know it's a bit lame, but it resolves your issues with ground/water locations.

Yeah there is no terrain difference between an air unit flying over dirt and water, so that won't work. Instead, when placing a crystal, you'll want to move one from another location (we'll call it "crystal stock") to the location you want the crystal, in order to avoid unit unplaceable errors. If a unit can not be moved, there will be no error, it will just not be moved. Then, have a trigger immediately after that which detects whether or not the crystal was moved to its new location, if it was not, act accordingly. Also, as a tip, have a separate trigger to always keep your crystal stocked. (For example: if player 8 brings exactly 0 crystal to "crystal stock" then create 1 crystal at crystal stock for p8)

It may be wise to not have any terrain with dirt + water.

For a clean, arena type look, you can use Space Terrain.

It is possible to make it so that air units cannot move to high grounds.
Attached is a map I made that does exactly that. Using two locations, one that detects high ground, and another to stay on low ground, The Corsairs will be ordered to move back to the lower ground.

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if you're especially good decent at blending, it is possible to just surround your water with high dirt tiles and stuff.

Haha true, but you guys are over-thinking this

You don't have to detect whether it can be placed or not, you only have to detect whether or not it was placed.

Ok....Well..I had an idea similar to you guys, basically I place crystal and check whether it was placed or not. Now, is there a way I can make the location move when this happens. That is, basically, if at LOC i can't place the crystal, can I then move LOC a bit to the left or something and try placing again. If it fails, again move it a bit more to the left, etc......and so on...Until I find a place suitable for placing the crystal???

Since this isn't for a grid-strict system (where air units would disrupt the layout), mobile grids may be an option: http://www.staredit.net/starcraft/Grid_Systems#Mobile_Grids

Why not just use a neutral air unit instead of a crystal, though? This would certainly be an easier solution.

Ok. I'am working out the details. Will get back to you guys in a while. I'am trying out the Grid-Strict system as well..Will let you know how things go.

Once again, I thank everyone who helped. In the meantime, does anyone here know how you can force a computer player to Scan Sweep a particular area?

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Sep 28 2012, 7:12 pm by wenzer.

Ok....Basically what I did was, have two locations LOC-AIR and LOC-LAND. One for keeping track of the last unit on the ground and one for the last unit in the air. And a trigger that basically:


and vise versa. LOC-AIR has "HIGH,MED,LOW FOR AIR" enabled, and LOC-LAND has "HIGH,MED,LOW FOR GROUND" enabled. So I will try to place the crystal first on AIR or GROUND based on the switches set. If I place the crystal first below the last air unit, and it fails, I will drop the crystal on the Last Land unit location. And vice versa. If all fails, I put the crystal in a predefined location!

Anyways, now I'am trying to figure out how I can make the computer do a Scanner Sweep on a particular location. Is this possible....Anyways, I'am going to create a new thread for this question, so I think you can mark this thread as answered!