So i have this clock for my rpg which works for the first quarter of a revolution then stops for some reason, most likely a detection messup that i did but dont know how to fix. Basically the clock is a circle with a track going around for a flag to go around. the flag moves to a location that centers on the next burrowed zergling on the track, but it stops and i dont exactly know why and i dont know how to fix it. Here are the triggers.

Moves the flag to the next zergling, the main trigger.

Death counter.

This one resets the clock once it has made a full revolution by giving all the zerglings back to player 9

Can you give us a little more info about your setup? My guess is you have something like this (though somewhat more circular)
--------------x-----------------
---------x-----------x----------
-----x---------------------x-----
--x---------------------------x--
-----x---------------------x-----
---------x------------x---------
---------------x-----------------
Where each x is a zergling owned by p10. Where/how big are "Clock" and "Clocker" and "C"
If you explain what's going on a little better it will help us help you, or provide the map.

Sorry, yes you assumed right.

C=Big location covering whole thing.
Clock=Middle sized location
Clocker=Tiny location.
There are 52 zerglings. and they are set to player 9. The flag isnt in the picture but its supposed to be where location clocker is.

Come on mateys help me out here.

I think I see what's happening. When the Clock location reaches the 3rd zergling on the far right hand side of the circle in the green box where there are 3 zerglings lined up vertically, there are 3 zerglings at "Clock"
The middle one in the box, the lower one in the box, and the upper one in the box below it. The upper one in the lower box and the lower one in the upper box are owned by P9, and the upper one is owned by P10 at this point, and what happens when you go to cycle the locations to the next zergling is that it gives first the zergling owned at "Clock" which is going to be the leftmost zergling at the location, which is what you don't want, then it gives the one at "Clocker", which means all 3 zerglings at "Clocker" will be owned by p10. Switch the order of the units given like this:


Give 1 zerg zergling owned by player 9 at Clocker to player 10
Give 1 zerg zergling owned by player 9 at Clock to player 10

and it should fix the problem.

well it does the same thing it did before. I tried giving 1 zergling to player 10 in location clocker only and it ended up going backwards all the way around. I got the clock idea from this map and i tried using the same basic concept and i have no idea how this guy did it. I dont understand his triggers. If you come up with any new cycle of actions for the trigger let me know.

Instead of using 2 players, try using 3. if x = p9, y = p10, and z = p11, something like
--------------x-----------------
---------z-----------y----------
-----y---------------------z-----
--x---------------------------x--
-----z---------------------y-----
---------y------------z---------
---------------x-----------------

You'll need 3 different "main" triggers, but at least this way you know if you are currently on and X, then the Y zergling is your next position, if Y then Z, and if Z then X. That should eliminate the problems with giving units to a player, since your "Cloak" location will only fit 3 zerglings at a time in it anyway.

i never thought of that, I'll try it out.

Make it so that all of the zerglings are given back to player 9 after he controls no more at that location (just so it doesn't screw up). As for the dilemma, I think it might be because you have two give triggers (I forget what the triggers look like in my test map).

Ok heres the map. If you can get it to go all the way around the right way, constantly, I will... love you forever.

Okay I didn't make you a new clock but I'm pretty positive I found your problem. This:

03 06 09
02 05 08
01 04 07

is the Give Units To Players order of operations, at the point where your at 3 o clock on the clock, it starts heading downwards so instead of giving the last two, (behind) to player 10 it gives '01' and '02' respectivley and renders your flag to be going to 03, up, instead of down, towards 6 o'clock. I also pimpified the look of your clock, refer to attachment.

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well i have to admit the clock looks pretty sweet. And yes your right about the problem. Im just trying to find a way around that right now. its pretty tough.

well i fixed it, it makes a complete revolution now over and over again. Thanks everyone. Especially lil inferno for inspiring me. I also added the map to the dldb if anyone wants to use it. Clock Download


Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on May 15 2009, 6:52 am by samsizzle.

Oh, I would have posted a solution but I didnt have internet, I basically did p9-11 and it made almost a full rotation, the only problem was you didnt have a number of zerglings that was divisible by 3, Glad you got it to work!