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Hello! So, I've started working on the combat script again. I want to create two battles with two heroes, but I'm already struggling with how to optimize it. The thing is, I don't have a clear idea yet of these heroes being real "bosses" that the player only attacks. For now, they're more like regular bots with large armies, roaming around and consuming everything on the map. I want it so that when my hero attacks them, or they attack my hero, it triggers the combat script. Right now, I'm just thinking of writing the entire combat twice, once for when the player attacks and once for when they defend, but maybe there's a way to simplify this so that the game only needs to track who attacked whom once, and then use that hero's variable in all functions (like UnitCastGlobalSpell)?

The best optimization option is to implement it only when you initiate the attack. How you do it is up to you. In general, I haven't done this myself, but if you attach a trigger to your hero that activates on touch, you can "disable" the standard attack and, using this trigger, enable interaction and `MakeHeroInterractWithObject` (or something like that), effectively making the hero attack the enemy. Then you'll only need one script.
I might be wrong about disabling the standard attack, but you can experiment with `SetObjectEnabled` and so on. There are many workarounds you can come up with. For example, you could create a loop that checks the distance between your heroes, and if the distance is 2 tiles, your hero will attack the enemy using this script... (but I wouldn't recommend this option )

Yeah, it's a pity that you can't pass heroes as arguments. Unfortunately, nothing I tried in the combat script itself worked; I tested it on the playAnimation function and constantly received the error "Hero "hero" doesn't exist," so I came to the conclusion that the combat script is essentially a separate script, so you can load it a bit. Therefore, I'll write the fight twice, depending on which side the heroes are on. However, thank you for your answer and recommendation

It's easier to modify textures in the editor: Configure the advanced map editor and select the Texture table. When you open the editor, make sure the Resource => Close MOD button is grayed out (if not, click it). The Texture table will contain a list of all textures by folder; you can open folders and textures by double-clicking. When you open a texture, it will be fully displayed in the black space on the right. In the texture properties (if there are no properties, click View => Selection Properties Window), find SrcFile and click the three dots. Select the desired file from the Complete folder of your game. Of course, before you start, you need to create a Complete folder in the game folder and put the new texture in tga format into it. After you select the texture in SrcFile, right-click on the texture file in the properties tree => Export. That's it, the texture is done.

function dolmenF ()
  MessageBox ("/Maps/Multiplayer/JoyPatriot/Tekst/dolmens.txt");
     Trigger(OBJECT_TOUCH_TRIGGER, "dolmen1", nil);
end;

SetObjectEnabled("dolmen1",false);

Trigger(OBJECT_TOUCH_TRIGGER, "dolmen1", "dolmenF");

 

I've started learning scripts and wrote a fairly simple script, but it doesn't work. I've checked it several times, the object name is correct, and the path to the text is also correct. The object is not disabled; it still works, and the specified text doesn't show what's wrong. I don't understand.