[General] Automatic hide in the bushes when stop in Certain region

[EvilLevi]

I wanted to make units hide in the big grasses when they stop something like the nightelf when night they hide but it is similar to that. I want to make units like footman automatic hide in the grass(or certain region) when they stop and unhide when move Please! Help!

 

[WaterKnight]

Detect entering/leaving the bushes and add/remove the 'Shadowmeld' ability?

 

[Daffa]

Shadowmeld got a problem with time cycle afair.

 

[Wark]

OK. So:
1) Start with adding the unit to a "hidden in bushes" unit group when they enter a "bushes" region.
2) Turn on a periodic trigger whenever the unit group has greater than 0 units in it.
3) Check all units in the unit group every 0.25 seconds or so (periodic event). If the unit is attacking or moving, remove the Permanent Invisibility ability. Else, add the Permanent Invisibility ability. Set the fade time for the ability and unit to something appropriate for you.
4) If the unit dies or leaves said region, remove it from the unit group. Turn off the periodic trigger if number of units in the unit group = 0

You'll need a total of 3 triggers for this.
I'm actually doing something similar for terrain effects on one of my projects, where forests hide certain units

 

[EvilLevi]

Wow! Thanks I did not that someone will actually reply Thanks i helps me a lot.... this is a good forum

 

[EvilLevi]

But can you make a little screenshot to your trigger to understand much better I know I am asking a lot but please your only my help..

 

[nedio95]

OK. So:
1) Start with adding the unit to a "hidden in bushes" unit group when they enter a "bushes" region.
2) Turn on a periodic trigger whenever the unit group has greater than 0 units in it.
3) Check all units in the unit group every 0.25 seconds or so (periodic event). If the unit is attacking or moving, remove the Permanent Invisibility ability. Else, add the Permanent Invisibility ability. Set the fade time for the ability and unit to something appropriate for you.
4) If the unit dies or leaves said region, remove it from the unit group. Turn off the periodic trigger if number of units in the unit group = 0

You'll need a total of 3 triggers for this.
I'm actually doing something similar for terrain effects on one of my projects, where forests hide certain units

You forgot to mention that there is no native way to detect if a unit is moving or not.
Luckily, there is a system in the spells section that does that + a few other things.
Grab that, you'll need it.

Also, wouldn't it be better to have a dummy unit cast something like a 0.25 seconds invisibility instead of adding/removing permanent invisibility ?

Why 3 triggers ?
Need 1 to add units that enter the grass region and 1 to manage it (loop).
2 total.
What else would it need ?

@WaterKnight @Daffa the Mage
Isn't Shadowmeld hardcoded to work only during the night?

regards
-Ned

 

[Wark]

Why 3 triggers ?

Now that I think about it more after sleeping, yea, it only needs two.
The loop can remove units that are dead or not in the region.

can you make a little screenshot

That ... will take a while. But, I can pull an example together to get you started.

 

[Wark]

I got a test map going, and ran into some problems.
I tried @nedio95 's suggestion to have a dummy unit cast invisibility continuously on the unit group, but that causes all units in the regions to "flicker" between invisible and visible constantly.
So, I used my idea: permanent invisibility.

There's still a problem. It doesn't detect movement or attacking, so units will remain invisible in "bush" regions.
I added debug messages to check everything. You can turn those off or delete them.

EDIT:
Got this system to work properly now. New version's posted here. The regions seemed to have required a buffer zone.

 

[EvilLevi]

Hive workshop members I am really thankfull for your reply I AM VERY HAPPY RIGHT NOW!!!! I will be here if I need anything again Thanks