Making towers face their target

Making towers face their target

lets say i have a tower that uses a rifleman model is it too much to ask taht it faces its target?

use an ancient as the base... just change model and such, shud work then.

hmm i tried both of them niether seemed to work

Hm...why would neither of them work...?
-_-; You must be doing something wrong...

heres what ive donein my many attempts(most done before this thread):

made a tower based on the ancient protector

unchecked true for is it a building-stat

gave it a unit speed at a speed value of 1 (big mistake now it tries to chase down targets)

made it movement type float,air(units walked under it and it didnt work),hover.

did you try setting the unit classification to ancient?

ya i did the rifle man is aiming straight down but his shot goes where ever hes really targeting

is there a simple trigger that could be easily implemented without creating to much lag when it starts turning a bunch of guys simultaneously?

christaroseya i did the rifle man is aiming straight down but his shot goes where ever hes really targeting

is there a simple trigger that could be easily implemented without creating to much lag when it starts turning a bunch of guys simultaneously?

triggers can't make buildings turn

but u could use a trigger to replace the building with a unit version of it that has no movement speed

note i don't know what would happen or if it would work, i've only done this to make buildable walls auto-align themselves

I saw this in Skibi's... the tower was an ancient of lore tho try lots of stuff with basing it on an ancient i guess

Bort

I dunno if this will work but try this


Event: A unit comes within range of X
Conditions:
Action: Make (Triggering Unit) Face (Entering Unit) over 0.00 seconds.

I dont know if that will move buildings. If it doesnt work then try Raptor--'s Idea.

Hint: Tornado slow aura will do exactly what you want (create an immobile unit that can turn).

christaroseheres what ive donein my many attempts(most done before this thread):

made a tower based on the ancient protector

unchecked true for is it a building-stat

gave it a unit speed at a speed value of 1 (big mistake now it tries to chase down targets)

made it movement type float,air(units walked under it and it didnt work),hover.

when you gave it movement speed of 1.. try 0 and go to gameplay constants and change minimum movement speed to 0 cause i think its like 25 and u cant have lower, also i didnt finish readin the posts but ive used triggers to turn gates (but pathing doesnt rotate so use a perfect square) im not sure if its only a WEU trigger but i doubt it... it rotates a unit by degrees (for some reason i put 0 yet it was slightly slanted -.=)

but yeah just make it a unit, castle builder has a flame pit and spike trap, those are actually units and they cant move!

Even bui;dings can have a turn speed. Try cranking that up

theres an ability called turret that might work try giving it to the tower i havent had time to try it tho

I think some models just have the ability to move to face a target. For example, the pulse gun from killst4r's turrets will face its targets. I just change combat and art data for a guard tower, giving it the pulse gun model, and it turns to blast the enemy