A quick way of doing this?

Hi all.

I would just like to no if there is a quick and simple way to pick up a change in a unit's health or mana without have a gazillion events covering every possibility of attacks, items used and so on. I need it to be like a generic unit event and to cover any change at all, not like the 'a units life becomes less than 50' tiggers.

Cheers.

and why cant you just use the 'a units life becomes not equal to current life of the unit' ?
this would prolly be the best way.

That just makes no sense in digital terms. If you want to detect damage, just use the appropriate event. Otherwise, I don't see a way of doing this other than periodically checking the units health and comparing it to a previous value.

Yes but that would involve frequently setting a variable so there was a 'current life' to compare to, and then checking it every second or something ridiculously laggy to make everything syncronise nicely. Oh well, thnx anyway but I guess I will have to go with many, many events lol. :/

You could use the units' custom values to store their life from the last check.

It does store only integer values, but that could be useful because by converting a real to an integer, little tiny changes like health regen wouldn't be so easily detected.

When is a unit's life not equal to the units life? O_o

When jesus says so.