Looking for info about the workings of upgrades

I want upgrades that upgrade every unit in the game, across all races and creeps, but they seem to affect only the race they are set to. I could change all my units to "human" but high level units only get hero magic resistance if set to "creep" and I don't think the game applies upgrades to creeps.

If anyone knows how to make universal upgrades, please reply.

Bump!

Someone must know how to do universal upgrades, as I have heard the claims!

However, don't say that it "just works" because it doesn't. It claims to work (the displayed damage/armor rank will go up for example), but the unit's damage etc only actually increases for units from one race.

i belive there is a "set current research level" trigger

So i would asume you can detect when a upgrade is researched. And when 1 upgrade does, you can then set all the other upgrades to the next level... I do not have the editor with me ATM so i cannot give exact code...

There's a field in the unit editor. You have to set each unit to use the upgrades you want.

fear factor, trust me I have no trouble comprehending every column of the upgrade slk and setting each unit to use the upgrades I want in unitbalance slk. Problem persists.

Dakan, do you by chance know the jass script to create such a trigger? I am making an actual mod; not maps, so I would have to script any triggers in blizzard.j.

dont think you need jass for that.. under actions there is

Player - Set Current Research Level

choose the update you want, and set it to a varible #

For instance using Scio's editor, you can do a Player owned unit event with a condition.

a unit owned by Player X finishes an upgrade - condition Upgrade is of type... whatever

set a interger varible say MeleeUpgrade to 1

then for actions Player - Set Current Research Level (tech) to MeleeUpgrade

then repeat for all the techs you wanted to upgrade with the 1 tech the player just did upgrade...

Unless i misunderstood your problem, that should do it

The reason I need jass is that it is not a map; it is a custom mpq

Preferrably though I wish someone who has a mod where all races including creeps actually benefit from upgrades would see this thread and impart any secrets!