MNoya
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8 years ago Heroes shouldn't get stuck when spawning from the altar. I have a whole function dedicated to finding a good place for the units so that they spawn in an open grid, can you take a screenshot whenever the problem happens again?
I was under the impression that WC3 had 'fixed' spawn points, like when you spawn footmen from Barracks they would always pop up from the Barracks' doors.
I can make it dynamic so that the spawn origin always starts at the closest point to the rally point.
d3nyme
Not a bug.
Unit production building such as the town hall only spawn units at 1 specific point. For example the town hall, peasants always spawn facing opposite to the gold mine, so they have to walk a big round to reach the gold mine [if the rally point is set to the gold mine].
The next example is the main problem and purpose of this issue. The altar also spawn its units like the town hall, so if the player build many farm/other buildings around the altar in order to cover to altar, the heroes will be pushed to the next path-able pixel and be stuck there [I had this issue], basically the only thing we can do is to use scroll of the town portal (waste 350 golds), or destroy the buildings around the altar (waste farming/leveling time), or rebuild the altar somewhere else since all other heroes spawned will be at that specific point.
In Warcraft 3, the whole circumference of the building is the spawn point of the building, so they'll spawn at the closest point to the rally point, which makes the gameplay smoother and faster. That is why in Warcraft 3 there's always a rally point set at a default location next to the building even if the player doesn't set it somewhere else.