About Actors {How is UnitBirth different from UnitBirth.UnitID}

[Rui]

Hello.

My question is very short: what is the difference between have this event: «UnitBirth --> Create» and «UnitBirth.MyUnitIDHere --> Create»? It has to do with that second field, the one below Msg Type and above Sub Name.

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

Afaik (not expert on actor events), Unit Birth, Create tells the current unit for which the actor refers to be created. Without it the unit may not appear at all so this is a main event. UnitBirth.UnitID(actor?) tells what actor to be created different from the current one, since the UnitBirth-Create doesn't specify a unit does it?

 

[Rui]

But will unitbirth without reference to a unit result in creating the actor for EVERY unit that pops out?

 

[Dr Super Good]

But will unitbirth without reference to a unit result in creating the actor for EVERY unit that pops out?

Logic implies that it should. Unless a scope is specifily refined, it should take the largest possible scope which is the birth of all units.

There are technical limitations to the engine though that can break this rules. The engine only reserves a certain number of slots for global events. If many events are allocated to a global scope it is possible the slot pool will be depleted and so 1 or more might not function at all.