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Whats teh most effiecent and fastest way to make levels in like defense games where all the units die and next level begins?

The creation of the units should be controlled by Death Counters.
Increment the Death Counter by one if no units controlled by the computer player are present in the playing field.

Trigger

Description:

Game Start

Conditions:

¤ BRING: Player brings ≥1 civ to loc(GameStart)

Actions:

¤ SET DEATHS: Set Player deaths of Data Disc to 1

Trigger

Description:

Level 1: Overlord

Conditions:

¤ DEATHS: Player has suffered the deaths of exactly 1 Data Disc

Actions:

¤ Create Overlords.

Trigger

Description:

Checking for Unitsd

Conditions:

¤ BRING: Computer player brings 0 units to loc(Playfield)

Actions:

¤ Display Level Finish text to user

¤ Add score or bonus resources accordingly

¤ Wait

¤ SET DEATHS: Add 1 to Player deaths of Data Disc)

Trigger

Description:

Level 2: Guardian

Conditions:

¤ DEATHS: Player has suffered the deaths of exactly 2 Data Disc

Actions:

¤ Create Guardians.

And so on...

UED77

It's better to use the Gas counter so players can keep track of the level more easily.

Yeah the gas counter would be the best way to go. I think anyways.

death counters... . okay. i was thinking about switches, w/e
thanks

Switches are slow and work funny when they overlap (from my experiences anyway).

Death counters are the way to go for damn near everything.

okay wielrd problem


Using gas switches these are my trigs (example)

Accumulate(All Players, Exactly, 1, Gas);

CreateUnit(5, Ultralisk, Enemy-spawn, P8);
Comment("lvl 1");


Bring(P8, Exactly, 0, Men, Anywhere);

SetResources(All Players, Add, 1, Gas);
DisplayText("Level Finsihed", 4);
Wait(10000);
Comment("detect");


Bring(Force1, AtLeast, 1, Hydralisk, Player-Spawn);

SetResources(All Players, Add, 1, Gas);
Comment("game start");









the untis arent spawning and the player gets teh gas! wth

You are using "All Players" for the gas counter. That is a very bad choice. When you add 1 gas to "All players", you are adding 1 gas to each player.
When the trigger checks for All Players having 1 gas, it fails to execute, because "All Players" actually has 8 gas, as each player from P1 to P8 has one.

Use a numbered player instead.

UED77

okay. in the trigger that detects if thers enemies left am i suppose to preserve it? its not repeating.

and also in lvl 1 u start with 1 gas. but in lvl 2 u get 3. wtf
and the display message isnt displying either

Bring(P8, Exactly, 0, Men, Anywhere);

Wait(1500);
SetResources(All Players, Add, 1, Gas);
DisplayText("Level Finsihed", 4);
KillUnitAt(All, Hydralisk, Anywhere, All Players);
Wait(5000);
Comment("detect");

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Quasi-StarForge format, don't be confused by SCMDraft2-style separators.

//--------------------------------------------//

If {
Bring(P1,AtLeast,1,Civilian,L-StartGame);
}
Then {
SetDeaths(P8,SetTo,1,Data Disc);
}

//--------------------------------------------//

If {
Deaths(P8,Exactly,1,Data Disc);
}
Then {
CreateUnit(20,Overlord,L-Spawn,P8);
SetSwitch(Sw-RoundInProgress,Set);
}

//--------------------------------------------//

If {
Bring(P8,Exactly,0,AnyUnit,L-PlayField);
Switch(Sw-GameInProgress,Set);
}
Then {
SetSwitch(Sw-RoundInProgress,Clear);
DisplayText("Round completed", 4);
SetDeaths(P8,Add,1,Data Disc);
PreserveTrigger();
}

//--------------------------------------------//

If {
Deaths(P8,Exactly,2,Data Disc);
}
Then {
CreateUnit(20,Devourer,L-Spawn,P8);
SetSwitch(Sw-RoundInProgress,Set);
}

//--------------------------------------------//

These should work now. The switch was included to provide control flow, now that the third trigger is preserved. Sorry about missing that earlier.

As for text not displaying, make sure the trigger with the DisplayText(); in it is run for a human player.

UED77

no problems right now

Just a design note here:

Use switches for things that can only have two possible values and don't necessarily depend on other values (things that might happen out of order). Use death counters for things that have several possible numeric values, like levels.

For example, if you're making an RPG and there's a key the players need to find before they can unlock the door, you should make "Found key" a switch. Set it to true when they've found it.

I for some reason never used deathcounters. I use either score or gas/minerals

For values that you want players to see, use gas, minerals, or score (and put it on the leaderboard). For things that the players shouldn't or don't need to see, use death counters. If you have Starforge or SCMDraft you can use unused units in your death counters so they don't conflict with anything else. You can also rename the unit you're using so you don't forget what you're using it for, which is something you can't do with score/gas/minerals.

Deathcounters are also usefull to create a "current player switch"