Is there a way to make a probe not be able to build buildings for a certain amount of time?

I am making a defense map. In between the levels, the probe can build pylons but during the level, he can't build them. The way I'm doing right now is detect when a player builds the pylon and remove it. It works pretty well but I wanted to know if there was an other way of doing it.

You cannot disable/enable buttons via triggers, that would only work for buildings which got requirement-buildings like the cybernetic core needs a gateway: if you don't want the player to be able to build a core: remove the gateway. This also is not useful for every type of map.
I'm afraid for pylons there is no other way than doing what you said.

Anyway, in my map, my detection is instant and the warp doesn't even show.
The only thing that I didn't like was that the sound after the pylon was build would still play.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Nov 28 2009, 9:43 pm by apos.

Mapping's equivalent to "white people problems"

Does gas have a purpose in your map? you could make pylons cost 1 gas, and constantly set their gas to 1 when it's ok to build, and 0 when it's not.

Or transfer the minerals to DCs then back next round (using binary count offs).

I guess that's what I'll do; changed it so the pylons cost 1 gas and during the levels, transfer the gas to death counters.
This was pretty simple.