Familuars...

I am looking to create a unit for my hero, a familuar if you will...

But I want it to follow the hero automaticly when you've not issued it any orders, and I also don't want it to be able to stroll too far away from the hero...

In short, basicly a unit the follows you around at all times, except when your not issuing it orders...

Can anyone help?

http://www.wc3campaigns.net/showthread.php?t=83384

Vex!

ya, or set it to Patrol on you so he will guard you :)

Well the ward classification is cool, but I don't wanna lose total control of the unit, because I am giving the familuar skills and the ability to level up and invest skill points in the skill...

Basicly I want him to auto follow the hero around, perhaps mimic the heroes commands, like when the hero attacks a target, the familuar attacks the same target, when the hero moves, the unit follows... Pretty much just mimic's the heroes actions in most cases, except when casting their own unique abilities.

So far I've sort of worked this in... But I can't get the follow command right... I have this trigger running


But it only works if I actually click the command "move" not if I just right click on the ground.

To be honest, if you want something to happen that specific, i think you would have to do it yourself.

Smart command is what you are looking for...

Ok, cool I figured that on, so far this works... I have my familuar attack when my hero attacks and follow my hero when my hero moves... But how can I prevent the familuar from moving away from the hero on their own? Or teleport them back to the hero if they get too far away?

Got something like that. Take a look at the triggers in this map for the fighters.

Is there simply an event or condition trigger along the lines of "if "unit" is further then # range from "unit"

I know there is an event for "if unit is within # range" But I can't find a condition that has to do with range.

you can check range...either by a boolean or a real value comparison i believe.

Couldn't find any in either catagory and I looked over them a few times.

I have these triggers setup currently... Can you tell me if this will most likely do what I want my familuar to do? Giving you control of the familiar, but making it so it can never wander to far away from you on its own?? Can you see if there is anything wrong with this trigger? So far I have found that it seems to work fine unless the hero boards a transport ship of some kind... Can you tell me what I'd have to add to make the familiar follow the hero onto a transport and get off the transport when the hero does? and anything else I'm not seeing that might go wrong using these triggers?

1.) Can anyone tell me if they notice anything that might go wrong with my above triggers in the previous post? Something unexpected in terms of my familiars orders that would cause some unexpected problems?

2.) Also can someone please tell me how to do an event triggered by a unit being unloaded off a transport? I found an event that occurs when a unit boards a transport, but not for unloading a transport... I can get my familiar to board a transport when my hero does with ease, but I also want him to unload the familiar if the hero gets off the transport. I am also not able to use this trigger if my familiar is onboard a transport and my hero is not...



3.) And finally, I looked again and again and I could find no condition for a unit being "out of # range" of another unit.

well for 3) I beleive you would need like a real check, like
"unit1 distance from unit2 greater than or equal to whatever"
I dunno if this exists, I'm just saying to look there.

for 2) perhaps theres a boolean like
"is unit is loaded into transport" equal to false.
Hope this helps you out some...

Yah couldn't find any unit range things under "real" or "interger" Basicly what I'd like to do is if the familiar got too far out of range of the hero then it would automaticly return back to him, but yah it doesn't look like a condition exsists for that... Least no where I could find in "real"

Edit: Oh heh, Math: Distance between two points, that may just do it

perhaps... Point 1 = hero, point 2 = familiar. then like if the distance between 2 points is greater than or equal to whatever, do whatever.