Building order trigger

[Nevanii]

Hey, I wanted to make a worker build something above the trees (I already changed building's collision and path to none, and a trigger that after finishing construction it deletes itself and places a unit that has the same model as building and is placed above the trees) but the problem is - a worker can't go through trees so can't start a construction!! Because of that I thought that maybe I can make a trigger that as soon as I place the destination of the building, the worker will stop, dummy will be created and the dummy will begin the construction... but I can't find right Event (with this event the worker has to get to the place of construction)

• Dummy build
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit begins Building
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Constructing structure)) Equal to Skyreaper
  • Actions
    • Set Tempunit = (Triggering unit)
    • Set Temppoint = (Position of (Constructing structure))
    • Set Tempplayer = (Triggering player)
    • Unit - Order Tempunit to Stop
    • Unit - Create 1 Dummy for Tempplayer at Temppoint facing default building facing degrees
    • Set Dummy = (Last created unit)
    • Unit - Order Dummy to build a Skyreaper at Temppoint
    • Unit - Add a 0.20 second generic expiration timer to Dummy
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_Temppoint)

 

[Pyrogasm]

When a unit is ordered to build, it is issued a point order. This order only exists as an integer (it does not have a string counterpart when converted to a string), and the integer matches whatever the rawcode of the constructing structure is (converted to an integer). For example: ordering a peasant to create a Scout Tower produces the order 1752659063, which is the rawcode 'hwtw' converted from base-256 to base-10.

GUI cannot interact with OrderIds directly and even though a rawcode is an integer (thus requires no conversion) it will not let you use one in an integer comparison condition. Thus the only way to check something like this must be done like so and cannot happen in a trigger condition:

• Events
  • Unit - A unit is issued an order targeting a point
• Conditions
  • -------- a condition like this can help filter out most other irrelevant orders --------
  • (Unit-type of (Triggering Unit)) equal to YOUR_WORKER_THAT_CAN_BUILD_THESE_STRUCTURES
• Actions
  • -------- the variable below, IssuedOrder, is actually a UNIT-TYPE variable in the variable editor --------
  • Custom script: set udg_IssuedOrder = GetIssuedOrderId() //keep the udg_ prefix but change the name to match your variable
  • If (All conditions are true) then do (Then actions) else do (Else actions)
    • If - Conditions
      • IssuedOrder equal to Scout Tower
    • Then - Actions
      • -------- do whatever here --------
    • Else - Actions

 

[Nevanii]

Am I supposed to type something in "()" at the custom script? No idea if it should look like this

• Dummy build
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit is issued an order targeting a point
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Faceless Worker
  • Actions
    • Custom script: set udg_IssuedOrder = GetIssuedOrderId()
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • IssuedOrder Equal to Skyreaper
      • Then - Actions
        • Set Tempunit = (Triggering unit)
        • Set Temppoint = (Position of (Ordered Unit))
        • Set Tempplayer = (Triggering player)
        • Unit - Order Tempunit to Stop
        • Unit - Create 1 Dummy for Tempplayer at Temppoint facing default building facing degrees
        • Set Dummy = (Last created unit)
        • Unit - Order Dummy to build a Skyreaper at Temppoint
        • Unit - Add a 0.20 second generic expiration timer to Dummy
        • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_Temppoint)
      • Else - Actions

Also by mistake I've set now Temppoint to Position of Ordered Unit, gonna fix tomorrow because already have closed the editor

 

[Pyrogasm]

No; function calls contain their arguments inside the (), but if the function takes no arguments as an input then the () is just empty.

 

[Nevanii]

Hmm then something is still not working, because the worker still starts building, nothing happens

 

[Pyrogasm]

Debug messages are your best tool in figuring out what is running and what is not. I believe that ordering a unit to do another order in response to an event triggered by an order will not really go through (in this case the stop order). It may be necessary to delay the order with a 0.00 timeout timer or to Pause the unit, issue the order, then unpause it again. Honestly I can't remember which method is correct.

 

[Nevanii]

I fixed it. It was my mistake that I used a dummy that couldn't build anything, wasnt a worker dummy. Anyways with this trigger (pausing and unpausing) everything works perfectly, thank you for the help!!