question about unit's direction

[Cavalcadeur]

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to make a campaign about the second punic war but I have a problem with some units named "Walls".
I have made immobile units with lot of hitpoints used to protect castles. Like castle's walls.
The problem is here : when the wall is under attack, he changes direction to look at his opponent but he's not supposed to do this because he's a wall and he can't move !!!
I can't find how to avoid ths mirroring. Anybody have a solution ??

PS: Sorry for my english ...

[zookeeper]

I believe you need to do that with direction-filtered animations.

[Cavalcadeur]

Thanks a lot !

[Elvish_Hunter]

Hi everyone,
The problem is here : when the wall is under attack, he changes direction to look at his opponent but he's not supposed to do this because he's a wall and he can't move !!!
I can't find how to avoid ths mirroring. Anybody have a solution ??

Another solution is that your wall unit can have "misc/empty.png" as base frame, then you'll put the wall image on its hex with an [item] tag. Then, in an appropriate die event, you'll use [remove_item] to clear the hex. Or you can define your own terrain overlay with the wall image and change the terrain in the die event.

[Iris]

Another solution is that your wall unit can have "misc/empty.png" as base frame, then you'll put the wall image on its hex with an [item] tag.

misc/empty.png is a 640x480 image. For units it’s safer to use misc/blank-hex.png, which is 72x72 and will take up less memory in the event it’s instantiated as an uncompressed surface. A larger image will also cause problems in 1.13.0 due to the overlays+bars repositioning “feature”.

[Elvish_Hunter]

misc/empty.png is a 640x480 image. For units it’s safer to use misc/blank-hex.png

You're right, I confused the two files: I meant "misc/blank-hex.png".