Trigger Challenge: Make corpses stay for 1 minute.

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Topic Subject: Trigger Challenge: Make corpses stay for 1 minute.

DeKont
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posted 11-04-03 04:49 PM EDT (US)

Almost done with my scenario, now adding eye-candy and stuff.
And this is one of them:
I want the bodies of the dead soldiers to stay on the screen after they die, I can accomplish that by making each soldier carry some food on them, like animals.
The problem is, with all the dead bodies things start to lag, so I only want corpses to stay for 1 minute and disappear after.
Idealy I was hopping that food would rote, and if I set some low value like 10, the body will be gone in 2 minutes, unfortunately that`t not the case and food doesn`t rote when given to the player units.
Maybe u guys have some ideas how to go about this�

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Hank
Stainless Steel Studios

posted 11-04-03 05:42 PM EDT (US) 1 / 3

Yep. Make an object "ALL P1 Units" Min/Max 1-9999 with State "Unit Rotting". You might want to specify the exact unit with the Class drop-down list, otherwise everything that dies of Player 1 will never rot away.

Then make an Effect(Unit-attribute) that increases their rot time by x amount (Whatever you want)

Make a trigger that says,

"IF All P1 Units (rotting) THEN "Set Rot time +100%"

Turn the trigger back on every 5-10 seconds or so, and it will always check for rotting Player 1 units and increase their rot time by whatever amount you choose.

[This message has been edited by Hank (edited 11-04-2003 @ 05:47 PM).]

BlackEvil
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posted 11-04-03 10:08 PM EDT (US) 2 / 3

or give the unit(s) a food artibute of 9999 that makes it to never rot

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[This message has been edited by BlackEvil (edited 11-04-2003 @ 10:09 PM).]

DeKont
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posted 11-04-03 11:04 PM EDT (US) 3 / 3

BlackEvil, I wanted them to rot, just slower.

Hank, I tried to get ur way to work, but it didn`t work out too well, like units are constantly created in my map, and constantly die, so if I am to use this "Add 60 second to rotting" I`ll have to use it at least every 61 seconds, otherwise it would just constantly add more roating time to the units already roating. And thanks for this �Roating state� tip, woah, didn`t ever thought such thing was possible.

So I went the other way (expanded on my food on corpses idea)
Every unit is created with 2 food on them. And every 60 seconds I ran effect Decrease food by 2, for All Units 1-999, State FoodRoating. So units die and stay on the ground, and every 60 seconds that effect fires and these old corpses disappear.

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Reverie World Studios, INC

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