Spawning main heroes

[tofiffe]

I would like to make a map so, that after you start the game, the chosen heroes appear at start, without towns.

What scripts would be possible?

And is there any way that every 2 or 3 days a cart with creatures would appear and they would join? they should be the same faction as heroes you choose...

[tofiffe]

i seem to have found a way for adding creatures depending on the day of the week, but still don't know how to make a hero selectable without town and make the script detect what faction the heroes are...

[Franzy]

Just take away the town on the day one and teleport hero on your start location.

[tofiffe]

so something like:

SetObjectPosition(h,x,y,z);
RemoveObject(town1);

at the begining of the script?
but the hero has no name if he/she is normaly spawned...how can i solve that?

[tofiffe]

and when i try to remove town, it says the object is not removable...

[Franzy]

There is a function that returns an array of all player's heroes names. The first (and single) element of this array will store your starting hero name.

To be able to remove or move a town or any other static object you should set appropriate propery (IsMovable or somethig like this, can't remember) to true (not nil).

[tofiffe]

So

SetObjectPosition(GetPlayerHeroes(player_1), x,y,z);
MakeTownMovable("town1");
RemoveObject("town1");

that solved it thanks! Now what about getting the hero faction? There's a hell lot of scripting if i'd want to check for every creature of each faction so the player1 and 2 would be getting reinforcements everytime...

Oh and SetObjectPosition(GetPlayerHeroes(player_1), x,y,z); returns an error, like wrong argument 1

[Franzy]

GetPlayerHeroes returns an array. You have to access its first element. Like this:

a=GetPlayerHeroes(PLAYER_1);
hero = a[0];

[tofiffe]

oh! that's something new! thanks...

[tofiffe]

just wanted to ask

GetPlayerRace( PLAYER_1 );

which variable does it return? number or name? like 0 or haven?

[Franzy]

A number of course.

[tofiffe]

so numbers from 0 to 7?

EDIT:solved that..but the script now has 524 lines, no error is reported but it doesn't execute...

and how could i make a cycle that every square of the map would be specified?

for i=0,71 do
PlayVisualEffect(efectname, '','', x, i, 0, 0);
end;

but that's just for all y coordinates...

[Franzy]

Never heard of nested cycles?

N=178 -- map size
for i=1,N do
for j=1,N do
-- tile(i,j)

end; end;

[tofiffe]

never heard of nested cycles...thanks!

But on the other hand, now the map laggs(it's tiny XD) is there any posibility to skip a number or two?

[Franzy]

for i=1,10,2 do

will probably result in i=1, 3, 5, 7,9

If it won't work use the following trick

for i=1,N/2 do
tile(i*2,j)
end

[tofiffe]

thanks, it was sure weird to see a tiny map lag on 4gb ram XD
i had to do /4 and *4 to unlag it

now is the trigger for loss of a hero is HERO_LOSS_TRIGGER?

[Franzy]

Look up in thr functions reference file. It's in the game folder with other docs.

[tofiffe]

ok i did look up, but some functions don't trigger...i don't thing it would matter if a function has more than one trigger...but the part of the script that was suposed to add creatures to an object simply doesn't work...

[Franzy]

PLAYER_REMOVE_HERO_TRIGGER.

[tofiffe]

yes, i did that, but the function isn't triggered...