I didn’t find any tutorial on respawning Minerals.
I wanna create a C&C - like Gamemode for the Arcade. But i don’t know how i respawn Minerals & let them “grow” over time. So it is just like one of the first C&C Games.
Actually i thought, there might already be a Tutorial Video. Since it sounds like the common thing, some one might wanna use.
Well, first, you would have to figure what exactly do you want.
When I think of minerals growing, I wonder if every “patch” of minerals has a chance to grow, or if a “super patch” (group of connected patches) has a chance to grow, and is that chance increased depending on the quantity and quality of patches making the super patch.
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In other words, need more specs to know in what direction to think.
I want a single patch to be spawned with just 5 Minerals, in a specific Area. But inside the specific Area, it should be randomly placed.
Already existing Minerals should just grow/ increase by ammount X. And the Chance that it “Grows” increases every time, the more time passes.
I am going to start some C&C and record the Minerals Growing… So it is visualized.
edit: C&C Minerals - YouTube Here like that
I thought of something.
Since you mentions “respawning minerals”, implying they can disappear completely, this reminded me that in Tiberian Sub, there were Tiberium trees, and in Red Alert, I think there sometimes were (decorative and unselectable) gold mines.
This may be a clue: a visible or invisible unit, in the middle of your “specific area”, in charge of spawning the minerals, allowing them to grow, and even to spread if that’s what you want.
I think many things/effect in the game are handled through invisible objects/units.
I’m good at manipulating data, and I’ve done work on resources (your idea of resource growing over time, I’ve done exactly that in one of my game mods). I can help, however, step by step, and If I got the time (probably week-ends).
I encourage you to join our discord if you haven’t yet:
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Find me (Wonder Rem), and I can help you with discord Stream, and help you directly create what you need.