I need help with adding a unit to a variable.

I honestly have no idea how this question is posed, but I'm trying to create an item and give it to a specific hero unit upon the hero unit's creation. If I wanted to assign this specific unit to a variable, how the heck do I do that? alot of the tutorials that I've stumbled across on google have simply told me "Just add the unit to the variable.".

I suppose this is two questions in one thread.

Question one: How do you assign a unit that hasn't been added to the map (I mean physically placed there.)

Question two: Is there an easier way to do this outside of triggers


Little frustrated cause google sucks at finding a decent tutorial (found a bunch of world of warcraft websites) and the methods I've tried for the past two days straight haven't worked. (my eyes hurt)

First, create the unit.
Then, set the variable to "last crated unit".

thanks so much for the answer!

Errrr, wait a moment, are you asking me to create a unit through a trigger?

I already have the unit created in the object editor. It's purchasable from a... shop/thing.







Argh!!! My brain is fried! I keep hitting the "Add Reply" button when I finish my post edit!!!!



edit: Anitarf, where'd you goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo?! ;_;

Theres an event called "A Unit sells a unit". Just fiddle with that. From what i gathered you dont even need a variable.

Oh cool, thank you Deaod for that info. I did a search based off of that and it turns out I can associate that event with a condition of "Unit - type of (selling unit)) Equal to Mygivenbuildingthatcreatestheunit"

Cheers.

Gonna test it right now.


edit: I tested the aforementioned event and condition with the action: Hero - create specifieditem and give it to (Last created unit)

and it didn't work. I tried a few other combinations of events/conditions/actions, but they gave the same result which was the inventory staying empty for the hero upon creation.

edit: I guess a temporary fix would be to give the hero the items after it learns it's first spell. *shrug*, i'll keep messing with this world editor. Thank you so much for this info.

Last created unit is only for a unit that's actually CREATED through triggers.

Since your event is about a unit selling another unit, to reference the unit being purchased (aka the mercenary/hero), use "Sold Unit".

Yay! It worked, thank you for the info Anopob!