Recently I've been encountering a lot of problems in making my map.
Anyway, here's the problem.
Problem:
Making the protoss photon cannon powered without the association of a pylon. I'm pretty sure I've seen it in various maps I just can't get it. (Originally I thought it had to do with the doodad state but the trigger that enables the doodad state isn't making it work)
*Note
I would just use a protoss probe so a pylon can be created but the probe is currently being used for other purposes which makes it impossible for me to incorporate it into that role. Instead I'm using an SCV and a trigger.
Trigger:
Player X
Player X brings at least 1 Stationary Catapult (Building) to location "Anywhere"
Center location "PX CP" on "Stationary Catapult (Building) owned by Player X at "Anywhere"
Remove all "Stationary Catapult (Building) for "Player X" at location "PX CP"
Move Unit "Worker" at location "PX CP" to locaton "SCV Dump 1"
Create 1 "Stationary Catapult" at location "PX CP" for "Player X"
"Enable" doodad state for "Stationary Catapult" for "Player X" at location "PX CP"
Move all "Worker" for "Player X" at "SCV Dump X" to "PX CP"
Preserve Trigger
Comment: Player X Catapult Creation
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Enabling a protoss building will power it until a unit is created.
Just make a trigger which constantly enables it on hyper triggers. Note that you can only enable one unit type per location. It would be wise to move a burrowed unit under each pylon and cycle through the burrowed unit, each time enabling the photon cannon.
"Parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Chairman - do we have to call the Gentleman a gentleman if he's not one?"
Yeah, protoss building power states are reset every time a unit is created or killed and all sorts of other triggers afaik.
I tried to do this in Zombie Outbreak, and only wound up making it flash powered like a damn strobelight because I have so many units being created and killed constantly.
What you could plausibly do is make every other turret built be made a pylon instead (and even refund the cash for it), as my map does. Pylons don't work too well for walling anyway
You can also check for a pylon in the vicinity of a potential pylon and make it a turret instead so you don't get too much overlap, pretty much so any swap-building placed next to the pylon will always be the building instead of a pylon. These are all ideas I had after just making my map build Cannon-Pylon-Cannon and thats all that is allowed for balance.
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I always got around this by disabling player's vision with himself and putting essential units in the fog of war.
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I tried to do this in Zombie Outbreak, and only wound up making it flash powered like a damn strobelight because I have so many units being created and killed constantly.
Did you have hyper triggers?
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flashed powered like a damn strobelight
Yes. I would hope that wasn't a dumb question.
I have units being culled and created every cycle at times; with up to sixteen to nineteen units being created and distributed to random locations three at a time it can definitely get backlogged when calling for more of a particular type.
Any map with significant action is going to mess with forced doodad power.
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