Okay, so... Hi, I'm not new, I've been here before, but it's been a while and my account seems to be lost. I've been mapmaking since around 2000, and I was sure I had this down. I spent about 45 minutes searching through the 17 pages of this forum and the rest of the internet via Google, and all I've found was affirmation that what I have should be working.
Anyway, here's the thing. I've tried to get this right more than twenty times in slightly different ways. I just can't get the Zerg in my expansion map to start acting on AI. I put a unit creation action in the same trigger as the AI, and it occurred, so I know the trigger is happening... But the AI just isn't wanting to kick in. (Note: you can't open the map properly with StarEdit.)
I've tried it with each player and combination of players, including All Players, Current Player, Force 1, and Force 2...
The action is simply "RunAIScriptAt(Expansion Zerg Campaign Insane, AI Area)." I tried changing the area and the script itself.
If you want to help, it's the All Players trigger whose comment is "Massacre Time!" I'm sure you'll see a funny thing or two in that trigger (and the other trigger that's also supposed to activate the AI, but let's focus on this one) like "If Elapsed Time = 5," but those were for debugging.
Attachments:
Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jan 14 2008, 11:39 pm by DeProgrammer. Reason: Forgot to attach the file, duh.
None.
Try giving the trigger to Player 5 maybe? I mean, it's his AI.
None.
We can't explain the universe, just describe it; and we don't know whether our theories are true, we just know they're not wrong. >Harald Lesch
You defeat player 5 at game start.
You can notice that when you place map revealers:
All units turn bright blue (P12) and then back to red (P5 ghost player).
Oh, dang, thanks a bunch. My Defeat triggers, based on probes, nexuses, and minerals, were set to apply to All Players rather than just Force 1 or players 1-4. I was going to say I couldn't believe I didn't realize it, but I can believe that, and I made this map a long, long time ago. I was just improving it.
Geeze, I remember lots of times I couldn't figure out why I kept insta-winning or insta-failing... I should go check out all my old maps. This is what I had done in this one:
All Players
Always
GiveUnits(All, AnyUnit, All Players, Sector1, P5);
GiveUnits(All, AnyUnit, All Players, Sector2, P5);
GiveUnits(All, AnyUnit, All Players, Sector3, P5);
GiveUnits(All, AnyUnit, All Players, Sector4, P5);
GiveUnits(All, AnyUnit, All Players, Sector5, P5);
GiveUnits(All, AnyUnit, All Players, Sector6, P5);
None.
