How do I make a melee map with triggers? As in how do you let users select their race with random start locations while in a UMS??

Create a blank map with SCMDraft. Go to the map options, and change the bit that has all the races to User-selectable. Then add your terrain.

Set the property of the race to "User Select".
Set the property of the forces where they players are in to "Randomize Start Location".

Edit: I got sniped by 11 seconds.

User select will ignore all preplaced units, and instead give the player a town hall and 4 workers when in UMS.

The guy above me hit the nail on the heads, thats my problem.

you can either create the units with triggers, or use players 9-12 as a placeholder. I'm not sure if you can, but you might be able to give players 13+ as well, though there may be some side effect. You can also randomize the race rather than having "user select", or you can choose the race in game. Note that the GUI won't change in this case.

Okay I have a control panel for various triggers for 4 players but I want those 4 players to have a random start location and a user-select for race. Using triggers how could I accomplish this?

Set players on user select, so they get a main building and 4 workers.
Have their start locations somewhere on the map with enough space but not where the bases should go.
Then at game start randomize 2 switches to determine one of the 4 possible base locations (3 switches for 8 base locations) but have P2-4 check if their spot isn't already taken. If it is, just re-randomize until you find a free spot.
In that same trigger move everyone's stuff to their respective base locations.

Can you post that in workable triggers so I can understand what you mean better? Thanks.

2 switches => 4 outcomes => 4 locations:
cleared, cleared => West base
cleared, set => North base
set, cleared => East base
set, set => South base





For the last player it might take several trigger loops until he randomizes the last free slot, but that's the drawback you get for using such a simple system. However with hyper triggers this should still be under 1 second in any case. Just make sure the start locations are far enough apart so that no one sees the other player's buildings.

Note: The elapsed time condition is there to prevent false triggering should you build at the start location later.

Oh and about your preplaced units: Preplace them for the remaining 4 players and give them to the human players after they got moved to their base.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Mar 21 2010, 10:14 am by NudeRaider. Reason: typo

Thank you for your assitance, you have helped me a lot.

Oh, I didn't know race selection changed anything other than your race, this was very informative for me.

Inb4lock

Can you give me some advice on how to make a computer play as melee in a UMS map (is this possible?)

Josh, you would use the Run AI Script trigger to run an AI script. It has to be the same race as the player's units and their race in the Map Description dialog.

While this is correct, keep in mind that the computer will still play a bit different from true melee.