flying trouble

05-09-2008, 03:05 PM	#1
ch6tal	i want that when a unit is moving/attacking it will be considred air and it will be at height 250 from the ground but when its not moving/attacking it will be considered ground and will be at height 0 from the ground anyone has an idea of how to do this?

05-10-2008, 03:23 AM

Pyrogasm

Uhhh... the only way I can think of it would be to use a very fast periodic timer to see what it is doing at that particular moment and then, well actually then I don't know what I'd do because I don't think you can change a unit's "targeted as" at run-time.

Maybe then you could constantly Chaos-morph the unit between the two desired forms, or you could try using the Druid's morphing abilities instead.

05-10-2008, 09:15 AM	#3
ch6tal	u think the periodic timer could work with multipule units that some of them are the same type?

05-11-2008, 06:09 AM	#4
Pyrogasm	Yes. Be more specific and I might be able to help you.

05-11-2008, 07:02 AM	#5
ArchWorm	Chaos is more convenient, imo. Whenever ordered, add it and whenever not, remove it.

05-11-2008, 12:05 PM

ch6tal

Trigger:

Events- Unit - is issued an order targeting a point

Events- Unit - is issued an order targeting an object

Conditions - (Unit-type of (triggering unit)) equal to unit{ground}

Actions Unit - Replace (triggering unit) with a unit{air} using The old unit's relative life and mana

this worked for the first part (when the unit moves/attacks)

Trigger:

Events - Unit is issued an order with no target

Conditions - (unit type of (triggering unit) equal to unit{air}

Actions Unit - Replace (triggering unit) eith a unit{ground} usint The old unit's relative life and mana

this trigger worked only when i told the unit to stop instead of working automaticly when the unit doesn't attack/move

05-11-2008, 05:46 PM

Quldan Elwood

I had the same problem with finding out if a unit was moving or not. This is what i came up with.
( I'm not sure how to put triggers into the text box so it's all types sorry)

Make the following variables.
All_units Unit Group Empty Unit Group
Real Real 0.00
Num_units integer 0
Unit_list Unit array [1] -none-
Unit_points_new Point array [1] -none-
Unit_points_old Point array [1] -none-

then make this trigger:

Stopped Unit:

Event-

Time - Every 0.10 seconds of game time

conditions-

Actions-

Set All_units = [Units in [playable map area]]

Set Num_units = [ number of units in All_units]

For each [integer A] from 1 to [Number of units in All_units], do actions

Loop- Actions

Set Unit_list [Integer A] = [Random unit from All_units]

Unit Group- remove Unit_list [integer A] from All_units

(end of loop)

For each [integer A] from 1 to [Num_units], do actions

(note: can't use Number of units in All_units b/c it's empty now)

Loop- Actions

Set Unit_points_new = [ Position of Unit_list [ Integer A]

Set Real (the variable) = [[[ x of Unit_points_new [Integer A]] - [x of Unit_points_old [Integer A]] + [ y of Unit_points_new [Integer A]] - [y of Unit_points_old [Integer A]]]

(----Real will equal 0 if the unit is in the same spot as before and don't worry about Unit_point_old yet----)

if (All conditions are true) then do (the actions), else do (else actions)

if- conditions

Real Equals 0.00

Current order of Unit_list [Integer A] not equal to [Order[move]]

Current order of Unit_list [Integer A] not equal to [Order[attack]]

Then-actions

( do actions for if the unit was stopped

Else- actions

( do actions for if the unit is moving or attacking)

(----End of loop---)

For each [integer A] from 1 to [Num_units], do actions

Loop- actions

Set Unit_points_old [Integer A] = [Postion of Unit_list [Integer A]]

( and thats where Unit_points_old comes in. for the first calculation since Unit_points_old is not set yet it will return a "unit is stopped" action)

Now this IS NOT COMPLETE. It will only work with 1 unit on the entire map but you can probably see what I was trying to do. ill continue working on it and hope to give you a trigger that works with all units. Until then i hope this helped.

05-11-2008, 05:55 PM	#8
abriko	You should convert a gui trigger that working for 1 unit to jass with local variable. Not very difficult and better ^^

05-11-2008, 06:06 PM	#9
Quldan Elwood	Don't know how to use JASS but with the problems I've been running into i should probably learn

05-11-2008, 08:27 PM	#10
abriko	If it's just about using local variables, i think that is pretty easy. I'm just using jass for multi-instanceable spells and this fast and easy.

05-11-2008, 10:17 PM

#11

ch6tal

i think figured it out

Trigger:

Events - Time - Every 1.00 second of game time

Actions - Unit Group - Pick every unit in (unit of type unit{air}) and do actions

Loop - Actions

If (All Conditions are True) then do (then Actions) else do (else Actions)

If - Conditions

(current order of (Picked Unit)) Not equal to (order(move)) and (current order of (Picked Unit)) Not equal to (order(attack))

Then - (the height and classification change)

Else - Do nothing

it works but when i tell the unit to move with the right mouse click instead of the Move order it still activates the trigger

05-12-2008, 01:10 AM	#12
Quldan Elwood	If i am correct the "smart" order is a "right-click" EDIT: i tested your trigger out with the "smart" command added and it worked so now both you and me have our "unit is not moving" trigger

05-17-2008, 03:25 PM

#13

ch6tal

what does the actions "add/remove classification" do because i tried using them to change the "targeted as" but it didn't work and constant morphing isn't practical (too many triggers,and causes bugs in the triggers) is there a way to change the "targeted as" during the game?

p.s i replying here because it hasn't been a week since last post and i do it here and not in trigger forum because this thread already exists so why create a new one

05-17-2008, 04:29 PM	#14
Pyrogasm	You can't change "Targeted As" without morphing.