Change appearance of a unit during game

[NightStalker]

Hey everyone, i was wondering if i could change the unit's appearance during the gameplay.

The question is, every player chooses a weapon and im not that good with attachments and instead of that i want to change the unit's whole model with a trigger if thats possible.

For example; i choose sword as my weapon
Simple villager ---> Swordsman
A transformation i mean, just the model though

Any help is appreaciated

 

[Nichilus]

it's not possible to change model. You can, however, replace the old unit with new one.

 

[NightStalker]

hmm replacing messes things up for me. Then i should try weapon and armor attachments. Thanks

 

[Razosh]

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Uses an item
  • Conditions
    • (Item-type of (Item being manipulated)) Equal to Potion of Your Item
  • Actions
    • Set Point = (Position of (Hero manipulating item))
    • Unit - Remove (Hero manipulating item) from the game
    • Unit - Create 1 Your Unit for Player X at (Center of (Point)) facing Default building facing degrees

 

[NightStalker]

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Uses an item
  • Conditions
    • (Item-type of (Item being manipulated)) Equal to Potion of Your Item
  • Actions
    • Set Point = (Position of (Hero manipulating item))
    • Unit - Remove (Hero manipulating item) from the game
    • Unit - Create 1 Your Unit for Player X at (Center of (Your area)) facing Default building facing degrees

it would be great if i didnt have to remove the first unit from the game

 

[Severalser]

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Uses an item
  • Conditions
    • (Item-type of (Item being manipulated)) Equal to Potion of Your Item
  • Actions
    • Set Point = (Position of (Hero manipulating item))
    • Unit - Remove (Hero manipulating item) from the game
    • Unit - Create 1 Your Unit for Player X at (Center of (Your area)) facing Default building facing degrees

This works if he uses the item so i think you may be change the event to Acquires item, and why you put Your Area in the position to create the unit, you have set the Point variable to this?

Finaly this work perfectly but you need correct it to futures noobs seeing it

Oh and you need save the unit in some var to use it if he drop or lost the item.

 

[ic3_water]

Dont use replacement method.

 

[Chaosy]

you could use a morph spell. I think that would work fine.

 

[ic3_water]

you could use a morph spell. I think that would work fine.

Losing all unit variable, that's why i dont recommend that methods

 

[Chaosy]

you can restore it anyway. When spell is cast and spell being casat equal to morph

 

[ic3_water]

you can restore it anyway. When spell is cast and spell being casat equal to morph

When your map have 30 trigger ( or ~200 like my map), it will be great time to restore it

 

[gorillabull]

use the chaos ability in the object editor (chaos-grom , chaos - kodo etc.)

 

[Nichilus]

The easiest method, imo, is that he just changes the attachment :x

 

[WaterKnight]

you could use a morph spell. I think that would work fine.

Losing all unit variable, that's why i dont recommend that methods

Morphing does not change the unit handle.

When your map have 30 trigger ( or ~200 like my map), it will be great time to restore it

That's a reason not to save native types but wrappers instead.

 

[NightStalker]

morphing is a good idea but in my map its not that efficient i guess, because there should be 5 different morphing spells(spearman, swordsman, crossbowman, archer and axeman) i dont wanna create so much triggers for just a spell that the player would use once(because there is no turning back once you choose your class).

The easiest method, imo, is that he just changes the attachment :x

im trying to apply attachments to the unit i got a problem in that too.

• Events
  • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
• Actions
  • Special Effect - Create a special effect attached to the overhead of (Triggering unit) using war3mapImported\Log.mdx

when i use this trigger the unit just disappears :S
whats wrong with this?
PS: dont mind the condition for the trigger its done in the map.



EDIT: okay i got rid of the problem but the problem now is 'How can i change the unit's attack animation?' the unit is attacking with bare hands while he has a spear in hand

 

[ic3_water]

morphing is a good idea but in my map its not that efficient i guess, because there should be 5 different morphing spells(spearman, swordsman, crossbowman, archer and axeman) i dont wanna create so much triggers for just a spell that the player would use once(because there is no turning back once you choose your class).




im trying to apply attachments to the unit i got a problem in that too.

• Events
  • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
• Actions
  • Special Effect - Create a special effect attached to the overhead of (Triggering unit) using war3mapImported\Log.mdx

when i use this trigger the unit just disappears :S
whats wrong with this?
PS: dont mind the condition for the trigger its done in the map.



EDIT: okay i got rid of the problem but the problem now is 'How can i change the unit's attack animation?' the unit is attacking with bare hands while he has a spear in hand

Run animation when unit attack

 

[NightStalker]

so if i type something like this;

• Events
  • My unit attacks
• Actions
  • Play My unit's customAnim animation

will it work?

 

[LordDz]

Pretty sure that caused Warcraft 3 to crash last time I tested it.
Just give it a try and see if it works?

 

[NightStalker]

okay i used this as my animation chooser but the villager still uses some previous attacks too not from the list down here

• Events
  • Unit - A unit Is attacked
• Conditions
  • (Unit-type of (Attacking unit)) Equal to Simple Adventurer
  • (Item-type of (Item carried by (Attacking unit) of type Spear)) Equal to Spear
• Actions
  • Set animAttack = (Random integer number between 0 and 11)
  • If (animAttack Equal to 1) then do (Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(GetAttacker(), 15)) else do (Do nothing)
  • If (animAttack Equal to 2) then do (Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(GetAttacker(), 16)) else do (Do nothing)
  • If (animAttack Equal to 3) then do (Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(GetAttacker(), 19)) else do (Do nothing)
  • If (animAttack Equal to 4) then do (Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(GetAttacker(), 20)) else do (Do nothing)
  • If (animAttack Equal to 5) then do (Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(GetAttacker(), 21)) else do (Do nothing)
  • If (animAttack Equal to 6) then do (Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(GetAttacker(), 22)) else do (Do nothing)
  • If (animAttack Equal to 7) then do (Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(GetAttacker(), 24)) else do (Do nothing)
  • If (animAttack Equal to 8) then do (Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(GetAttacker(), 26)) else do (Do nothing)
  • If (animAttack Equal to 9) then do (Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(GetAttacker(), 28)) else do (Do nothing)
  • If (animAttack Equal to 10) then do (Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(GetAttacker(), 29)) else do (Do nothing)

 

[Xavius]

You could try using that upgrade ability which trolls have, "Berserking" or something like that.