Loading a flying unit

How do you load a flying unit? You can't replace it, as it been tagged for future use.

1. Wrong forum.
2. Elaborate. Load as in transport? Load into map? Load from save code? Load from unit array?

oh lol sorry..

K I got a unit. Right now It doenst fly. I need it to be able to fly so I can do a some other triggers, which work (I press Esc and the unit jumps). Since the unit is flying a 0 height you never notice it actually flying, and the game engine itself take care of all the terrain height.


The major problem is I cant load a flying unit into a transport. The unit has to fly. I tried to use hover and the other triggers dont seem to work. I tried force board (whatever it is?)

Other minor issues are collission issues.

Ok, I can understand you need it to be able to enter a transport and you can't do that if it's flying, but, once again, why do you need it to be flying in the first place?

I think coz he wants to be able to use jump, and thinks he has to make the unit flying permanently to do so

is there a way to stop a unit from flying. I know net ability stops a unit from flying but I dont think you can load a unit thats been netted.

I'll say alittle more, dont know if this will help, currently the jump trigger only works in Third Person shooter mode. The camera goes up and down with the unit that the camera is locked onto to, actually has a very nice effect.

Is there not a trick that can be done with Medivh's Raven Form or Metamorphosis that can temporarily give a unit flying? I haven't really looked into it but I thought I saw it mentioned somewhere. That might be the solution to your problem if you use it only when the unit is jumping.

Hmmm interesting I give it a try.. I wonder if its still counted as the same unit?

It's considered the same unit. The unit doesn't even have to use raven's form. Merely give him the ability and remove it and you can change his flying height.

But if you want it to fly because it has to clear obstacles... try modifying the "Load" ability to allow it to pick up air units since the targets allowed field only allows for ground units (and maybe look at the other 3 abilities the goblin zepplin has too).

Yeah, that's what I was aiming at, if you only need the unit to be flying so it can do a jumping spell, just use the raven form trick. Give the raven form spell to the unit with a trigger and imediately take it away again. From then on, you will be able to alter the unit's fly height even if it's a ground unit.

I've always foudn the Raven form trick to be one pf the more interesting WC3 quirks, simply because it seems to simply and buglessly remove an arbitrary limitation set by Blizzard.

Wonder how many of these exist that blizz could have just removed...