[Solved] Auto Engage Event

[Starquizer]

If two hostile units are in each others acquisition range they will automatically engage in combat, the problem is that there no command for this action.

An event like A unit Is Attacked fires only when the unit starts the action but there is no way to detect when the unit leaves its position to attack a unit because it has entered its acquisition range.

Is there a way to detect this event ?

The only solution I have found is by picking every unit in the map that can attack and check the nearest unit to the picked unit and see if one is in the acquisition range of the other or not but something like that may be slow but that is the only thing I can think of.

Any ideas/solutions ?

 

[claptomanic]

just make 2 triggers....1 with the actions you wanna do when they engage, 1 adding during map ini and whenever a unit enters the map the event to the first trigger 'a unit comes within X of (your units)' for every unit in the map...

that way you have a trigger running everytime the units get in acquisition range.

 

[MortAr]

There's an event called "Unit - acquires a target", which fires when the unit starts to run against the enemy.

 

[defskull]

• Events
  • Unit - No unit Acquires a target

Unit - Specific Unit Event

If the unit is a variable, you can use this to register the unit to that event (since that event does not accept variable-type unit).
NOTE: ONLY REGISTER THE UNIT ONCE TO THE EVENT. Registering a unit multiple times to a single event cause instance bugs. How to do this ? Simple. When you want to register, do an IF/THEN/ELSE check, if the unit is not in a Unit Group (variable), add it and register it, if it already enters the unit group, do nothing (literally - leave it blank).

• Trigger - Add to Acquire Target <gen> the event (Unit - Unit Acquires a target)

At the event (different trigger);

• Acquire Target
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • -------- ACTIONS HERE --------

 

[Nestharus]

You can see how it was done here

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/submissions-414/system-unit-attack-213779/

 

[Starquizer]

There's an event called "Unit - acquires a target", which fires when the unit starts to run against the enemy.

Yes, I forget about that. Thanks