Sell Tower / Transmute / Problem

[pred1980]

A question.

In my map i sell towers with a dummy unit and transmute. All works fine.
Now i'm working on a Tower AI and the selling makes trouble

I debugged up to the point that it's not possible to order a dummy casting transmute if the dummy player is a computer.

here's the code snippet.

private static method onSell takes nothing returns nothing
    local unit u = GetTriggerUnit()
    local unit t = GetTrainedUnit()
			
    if GetUnitTypeId(t) == SELL then
        call SetUnitInvulnerable( u, false )
        call IssueTargetOrder( t, "transmute", u )
        call UnitApplyTimedLife(t, 'BTLF', 1.50)
        call GroupRemoveUnit(BEING_UPGRADE_UNITS, u)
    endif
            
    set u = null
    set t = null
endmethod

This code works fine for real players BUT as i said if the TrainedUnit(Dummy with the transmutre ability) is a computer player it will not work!!!
Any ideas? My idea is to sell the tower manually by remove + special effect and give wood back to the player. For this i need a special lib which gets me the tower costs. I think i saw it here on hive.

Best Reg.

 

[Wietlol]

Is the dummy locust and has 0 cast point?
Because it should not be able to be interrupted.

If the towers are upgradeable, then it is a bit hard to find the actual gold/lumber cost out of it.

 

[pred1980]

yes, they are upgradeable and indeed... it could be hard to get the correct wood

Afaik the dummy is locust but the cast point i dont atm. Im at work, so i cant check.

 

[Wwallace_]

If you have upgraded structures or units
just give each one of them the results of "base cost" + "upgrade cost"

IIRC, the thread about AI using abilities, the AI doesn't use transmute

 

[pred1980]

IIRC, the thread about AI using abilities, the AI doesn't use transmute

Where do you have this information?

 

[Wwallace_]

Here

Abilities that were implemented through the new heroes, may not have been inserted into the AI

 

[Death Adder]

Since it's still the same unit even if it's upgraded or morphed you could index, store in hashtable or use unit custom value to save the total gold cost.

It should be fairly easy to either use that function from the AI stuff (common.ai or something maybe?) to get the unit-type gold and lumber cost or using series of elseif

 

[pred1980]

we made a workaround to get the value for all tower upgrades. It's fine now but it takes a lot of time get the knowledge that the computer does not cast transmute

Anyway Thx all for time and help!!!

The complete Tower AI you can check soon ^^