How to kill player's buildings if the player gets killed

08-21-2004, 10:59 PM	#1
Bacalhau	I got another question... I'm not really good at complicated triggering so I need some advice as to what to do. Here's the situation: You are a unit and you can build one tower. When this player's unit dies I want his tower to be destroyed as well (if he built one). Can somebody set me up with the triggering? I would really appreciate the help.

08-21-2004, 11:18 PM	#2
johnfn	Shouldnt be too hard... Events Every 2.0 seconds Actions: If/then/else multiple conditions If - Conditions integer comparison: (Life of (your unit) Equal to (0)) Then - Actions Kill - (your tower) You might want to have a variable store the tower as a unit variable and just kill the variable. If unclear on this please reply.

08-21-2004, 11:23 PM	#3
Bacalhau	Ok. But I can't set the variable to be the tower unit. I have all these options but I can't make it the tower. Also, the player can choose from other units also but if the player picks this class then only when this class dies I want the tower (if built) to be killed... just to clear things up... Thanks though, I'll mess around with that for now...

08-22-2004, 06:14 AM	#4
Bacalhau	I know i've been getting a lot of help here today, but this is my last question, I promise. Help me here with this trigger and I'll never bug you guys again.

08-22-2004, 06:20 AM

Azhag

Herex what you do. First you make a variable, make it a unit variable, and make it array. Next make a trigger. These triggers won't be exact but I'm doing this off the top of my head.

Trigger #1
Actions- Unit creating unit
Conditions- Unit being created = to Tower
Actions- Unit Group- Add Last created unit to unit group (The unit array variable)

Trigger #2
Actions- A unit dies
Conditions- triggering unit = to (unit that needs to die)
Actions- Unit Group- Kill all units in (The Unit array variable)

That should sum it up. Sorry about the crappy triggers, again I wasn't on WE and had to do it by memory.

08-22-2004, 06:25 AM	#6
Tiki	events a unit dies conditions unit type of dieing unit equal to true actions unit kill x -or- unit remove x

08-22-2004, 06:33 AM

SpadeZ

This might sound like an easy trigger but its harder than meets the eye. I wish it was that easy, but the problem is that there is not such event as "Unit Creating Unit". Its simple as to kill a unit or remove it. But to set that unit into a variable is the difficult part.

There are only 3 construction events.

Code:

Events
    Unit - A unit Begins construction
    Unit - A unit Cancels construction
    Unit - A unit Finishes construction

The problem with these 3 events is that there is no way of detecting the unit that is constructing the tower. I tried making the triggers for this but it was harder than i thought. I tried using triggering unit as the unit that was constructing these but it doesn't work. I tried using "A unit is issued an order" but i dont know the command string for build. And if all players had a more than one unit that could build more than one tower, then that would compound onto the problems because the "set variable = value" would overide each other, meaning that you would need a few more set variable = value for each player and tower that corresponds to the unit that built them.

Hope some1 figures out how to make this properly, GL

08-22-2004, 06:36 AM

Bacalhau

Quote:

Originally Posted by Azhag

Thanks a lot, this is exactly what I wanted.

08-22-2004, 06:39 AM	#9
SpadeZ	I'm suprise that you say that worked. I couldn't find a unit creating unit event. closest was Code: Events Unit - A unit Begins construction Unit - A unit Cancels construction Unit - A unit Finishes construction Those you cant find the unit that was constructing them. Well lets hope that Azaq is right.

08-22-2004, 06:51 AM	#10
Bacalhau	Well I never said it worked :O So hopefully I can find something to work around that problem or I'm screwed... Nevermind When unit finishes construction worked Thanks a lot guys, this problem was killing me...

08-22-2004, 07:12 AM

#11

Azhag

Quote:

Well lets hope that Azaq is right.

Azaq?? Oh man, I wish there was a cry smilly lol.

08-22-2004, 07:23 AM	#12
SpadeZ	Sorry bout dat. missed the h. you could use the .

08-22-2004, 09:12 AM

#13

Anitarf

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tiki

events
a unit dies

conditions
unit type of dieing unit equal to true

actions
unit kill x

-or-

unit remove x

Tiki had the easiset trigger, without any variables needed (it's just not entirely correctly typed):

Code:

Events:
  A unit dies
Conditions:
  Unit type of (dying unit) equal to (the type that kills the tower when it dies)
Actions:
  pick all units owned by (owner of (dying unit)) matching ((matching unit) is a structure equal to true (this is boolean - unit classification check)) and do actions:
    loop - actions:
      kill (picked unit)

08-22-2004, 04:40 PM	#14
Bacalhau	No, but I want it to be the last constructed building like Azhaq said....

08-22-2004, 08:17 PM	#15
Tiki	Events: A unit dies Conditions: Unit type of (dying unit) equal to (the type that kills the tower when it dies) and --- something was last created unit equal to true Actions: pick all units owned by (owner of (dying unit)) matching ((matching unit) is a structure equal to true (this is boolean - unit classification check)) and do actions: loop - actions: kill (picked unit)