A ranged and a melee atk.

[CursedKnight]

How do u make a unit normally use a ranged attack and if the enemy is within say like 50 range, it do melee attack instead? Btw plz refer me to sumwhere else if this question had been answered some where ele.

 

[Unscrewed_Magic]

Most units have a 1st and 2nd attack.

Make the unit's first attack melee and its second ranged.

I belive the dryad unit has this.

 

[Mechanical Man]

That will not achieve the desired effect.

 

[Unscrewed_Magic]

Is that not what the dryad does ?

 

[Mechanical Man]

Dryad throws spears from the distance and from melee.

 

[MagnusCalgar]

you can use the 2 attacks option and simply give the ranged attack a min range of say 75ish doing this with say a melee model with added effects to the ranged attack should give you the desired effects

 

[Mechanical Man]

The only way is to replace the unit type.

 

[CursedKnight]

er i still dun get wat i am suppose to do.

 

[Taur]

you can use the 2 attacks option and simply give the ranged attack a min range of say 75ish doing this with say a melee model with added effects to the ranged attack should give you the desired effects

You cant do it that way, minimum attack range applies for both attacks. You'd have to trigger a system that uses orbs with 2 attacks (one ranged, one melee) and then removes or adds the orbs based on wether the unit is in range or not. But this pretty annoying, and not something you can really show without making the entire system.

 

[Unscrewed_Magic]

Could we use the AI to do this ?

 

[Mechanical Man]

One other way is not have a dummy unit cast an ability based on drunken haze modified to disable ranged attacks.

 

[Mecheon]

... Don't double post Wrath, and especially don't just make useless posts that either copy things other people have said or add useless information that has nothing at all to do with the topic

 

[MagnusCalgar]

what is it EXACTLY you are trying to do here

this is more complicated than it sounds as units will always use their primary attack if it is viable even if say a secondary attack that can only be used in melee would do more damage

what is the point of what you are trying to do and what exact goals are you trying to achieve
that would make it easier to help you

 

[Quiet_player]

There is a simpler way, but it's trublesome to play it (needs a good micro).
Druid morph skill, one unit with ranged attacks one with not.

And, if you are too lazy for download extra icons, the nightelves have the bows range upgrade one.

 

[CursedKnight]

I wanted to make that the range atk is what the unit would normally do, and if the unit is too close to the enemy, then it cannot use its range atk and instead do a melee atk that is chaos dmg and more powerful.

 

[CursedKnight]

Regarding the druid morph idea, will the items, exp, etc... be retained after morph? or do u get a completely new hero at lvl 1?

 

[YoshiRyu]

answer: demon hunter ultimate spell

 

[Deathclaw24]

what u could do is like say its a rifleman shooting you could make a trigger that does: A unit is attacked -- Attacking unit equal to rifleman - Distance between position of attacked unit and attacking unit equal to or less than 100 -- *Then you could make it do more dmg cuz of the range* (Order Attacking unit to damage attacked unit dealing 15 dmg of type pierce) or pause the rifleman and play an animation like stand 3 where he pulls his gun up and reset his animation so it looks like he jabs the enemy with the end of his gun... thats what i did for a melee animation for a gun game im making!

 

[Ghost765]

well this is wut im doin for my marines and stuff its basically the morph ability but for the melee attack make the atk animation be "spell" thisll make the marine when morphed into melee mode do an upward cut with a boynet(or another weapon) and itll look cool i guess... but it does require some micro and some peple might not bother with it unless melee is way better than ranged like better dmge or something. well thats all i can help

 

[Deathclaw24]

Morph is a useless spell for this, all you need is a trigger to detect range and pick all units infront of the unit and damage them and even knock them back or stun. If you do it with morph your guy will just gain close range attack then he'll have to cast morph back to ranged form.

If you want I could send a quick demo map showing you how it works.

 

[YoshiRyu]

your's isn't proper:

place your rifleman between 2 close archers
and your rifleman will "patrol" between the 2 archers...
(and he want a melee attack, not a damage field)

the morph "change current weapon" is better i think

 

[-=Emergenzy=-]

You can create it someway like this:

Event:
Unit is attacked

Condition:
If PositionOfUnit(AttackingUnit) not grather than PositionOfUnit(AttackedUnit)+100

Action:
UnitAddAbility("Chaos")

I dont have WE open right now. But I hope you understand my idea.
"Chaos" is an ability that morph the unit into another unit.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Ok, I was trying make a simple trigger, which then did not result as a simple, I have quite much problem with it. First of all, ignore that player group action, I just did not manage to get it work, so I went the complicated way, the for loop. If somebody could tell me the reason, I will appreciate it.

The prerequisites are two units, the ranged and the melee one, and two abilities based on chaos. First it has new unit type 'rifleman(melee)' and the second 'rifleman(ranged)'.

I think that there could be some memory leaks as the game lagged a little, but this could be possible also because having a lot of programs opened.

• Melee
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Is attacked
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Attacked unit)) Equal to Rifleman Elite (ranged)
    • (Distance between (Position of (Attacking unit)) and (Position of (Attacked unit))) Less than or equal to 250.00
  • Actions
    • Custom script: local integer udg_count=1
    • Unit - Add Chaos (Rifleman Melee) to (Attacked unit)
    • Custom script: loop
    • Custom script: exitwhen udg_count==0
    • Set count = 0
    • Player Group - Pick every player in (All enemies of (Owner of (Attacked unit))) and do (Set count = (Number of units in (Units in (Region centered at (Position of (Attacked unit)) with size (400.00, 400.00)) owned by (Picked player))))
    • For each (Integer A) from 1 to 12, do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • ((Player((Integer A))) is an enemy of (Owner of (Attacked unit))) Equal to True
          • Then - Actions
            • Set count = (count + (Number of units in (Units in (Region centered at (Position of (Attacked unit)) with size (400.00, 400.00)) owned by (Player((Integer A))))))
          • Else - Actions
    • Wait 1.00 seconds
    • Custom script: endloop
    • Unit - Add Chaos (Rifleman Ranged) to (Attacked unit)

 

[Deathclaw24]

No it works fine (I tweaked my trigger a bit to make it work), I've created a map already with it working, after meleeing you can move away or your guy will keep meleeing, it knocksback the enemies and does good damage and slows their movement and attack for a short duration (just an added effect I like so you could run up to ranged units and give em a good bashin and run by)

 

[Deathclaw24]

I actually posted the map in the spells section but it still needs to be checked out. It's in the pending spell section I suggest you to check it out!!!

 

[Mechanical Man]

But I saw that you use a sort of 'artificial' attack, totally different than my system.

 

[Ghost765]

can u guys make this a bit simpler?

 

[CursedKnight]

hey if i use the morph spell idea, and my unit is a hero, would the experiences and items be saved?

 

[CursedKnight]

i mean do i have to make separae triggers to save them?

 

[CursedKnight]

For Mecheon triggers, what does 'chaos' actually meant to do? Is it the same chaos in -=Emergenzy=-'s idea? or is it based upon the chaos in W3?

 

[Deathclaw24]

Go into spells, pending spells and look for ranged-melee by me.

 

[Mechanical Man]

What do you mean CursedKnight? Mecheon only warned a guy not to multiple post (seems he have to warn you, too), he did not post any triggers.

 

[CursedKnight]

i thought you would've said that...sorry i was looking through rli fast and saw the wron name ...