I have a trigger that converts any corsair you own into a dropship

when i tested it heres what happened

-built corsair
-dropships spawn at top left corner of the map




i got the trigger to work by replacing the part with

center location "COVERT" on corsair at "ANYWHERE"

with

center location "COVERT" on corsair at "WHOLEE"

where WHOLE is a location I made that covers the entire map.





I've done triggers like this plenty of times and have never had any problems before.

What is going on? Did i somehow delete the anywhere location?

the problem seems to be that when i try to center a location on a unit at "anywhere", it doesnt work.



When i was creating locations it skipped from location 62 to location 64, and i know that the 64th location is the one reserved for anywhere.

Have i broken the anywhere location somehow?

thanks

Trigger("All players"){
Conditions:
Command("Current Player", "Protoss Corsair", At least, 1);

Actions:
Move Location("Current Player", "Protoss Corsair", "anywhere", "convert");
Remove Unit At Location("Current Player", "Protoss Corsair", 1, "convert");
Create Unit("Current Player", "Terran Dropship", 1, "convert");
Preserve Trigger();
; Comment("Corsair");
Display Text Message(Always Display, "BOAT");
}

if "anywhere" is somehow incorrect i can fix if you attach or pm it

here you go, the trigger is the first one owned by "all players". thanks.

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Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Jun 25 2014, 7:04 am by sigsaucy.

forgot to hit "Attach This" ?

whoopz, fixed it

looks as though you ran it through a compressor once already? see if this has fixed

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Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jun 27 2014, 4:29 pm by jjf28.

i never used a compressor, i tried running your map but it crashed broodwar as soon as i selected it from the list. never seen a map do that before

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jun 25 2014, 10:26 pm by sigsaucy.

Did you create the map with SCPM or some other specialized editor? Did you resize the map at any point in time? These can cause the Anywhere location to not cover the entire map.

You could export everything and import it onto a freshly-made map to fix this issue. You could use this program to do that: http://www.staredit.net/files/460/

i used mapsketch to create the initial map, then i used scmdraft 2 to edit it. i never resized it.

MapSketch would count as a specialized editor. It doesn't properly size the Anywhere location for anything other than a 128x128 map. Because your map size is 256x256, your Anywhere location is probably only covering 1/4th of the map (the top-left segment).

Edit: after testing a map created with MapSketch, it seems like the Anywhere location only covers about 10x10 tiles in the top-left corner.

how does one change/fix the size of the anywhere location?

There's no tool that I know of that fixes it. You'd have to export everything to a clean map.

This is why you always copy the terrain generated from a picture mapping program onto a new map: they often have small quirks in the generated map that is not worth the hassle of trying to correct.

Hex editor. Though you'd have to know where to look in the scenario file and how to change it. Rockz already did it when he was more active but I assume there's several more people that could tell you what you need to know.

However you could use SC Map Importer/Exporter to only import the location layer. Should be less work than copying everything else to a new map. He'd have to redo every location regardless.

think i did better this time: http://puu.sh/9My1g/7829d05d47.scx

I didn't know that. xD Nobody told me.