[General] change sight radius to unit default

[Cheshire]

hey,

is there a way to change the sight radius of a unit to the default sight radius of a different unit so it will take into account day vision and night vision?

thanks!

 

[Macadamia]

As far as I know, we can change a unit's range by changing its unitweaponrealfield named UNIT_WEAPON_RF_ATTACK_RANGE and the native native BlzGetUnitWeaponRealField takes unit whichUnit, unitweaponrealfield whichField, integer index returns real or with an upgrade.

You can also change the acquisition range with the native native SetUnitAcquireRange takes unit whichUnit, real newAcquireRange returns nothing.

But I can't find anything in the entire common.j related to sight radius.

Maybe using a morphing ability to change the unit to a similar unit with the same sight radius for day/night as the "different unit" you are mentioning would work, but I have not yet tested this.

 

[wrsuperboy]

As far as I know, we can change a unit's range by changing its unitweaponrealfield named UNIT_WEAPON_RF_ATTACK_RANGE and the native native BlzGetUnitWeaponRealField takes unit whichUnit, unitweaponrealfield whichField, integer index returns real

As far as I've tested, you cannot do it with unitweaponrealfield. Try it.

 

[Macadamia]

I trust you, I didn't test it as I use an upgrade for it in my map.

Thanks for the information !

 

[Cheshire]

But I can't find anything in the entire common.j related to sight radius.

that is really weird, bc you can do it easily in GUI.

Unit - Set Unit: (Triggering unit)'s Real Field: Sight Radius ('usir') to Value: 300.00

My question was just if there was a way to make it change automatically (without manually triggering it) with the day and night cycles like regular unit vision range.

 

[Macadamia]

I indeed missed it while searching common.j library.

But thats strange does UNIT_RF_SIGHT_RADIUS refer to day or night sight radius I have no idea.
As they do not seem to be distinct you might still have to use triggers to change it with night/day cycles.

EDIT :
the real field name for night sight radius is 'usin' and the day is 'usil', and you can't change them with triggers.
I can't find 'usir' anywhere in the object editor but maybe I missed it.

 

[Cheshire]

a. I'm using patch 1.31.1, not reforged, so maybe that explains the difference.

b. maybe 'usir' was exactly what I am looking for all along - the full sight radius calculation, usil and usin included. I just assumed it was a single value, bc you only enter one numerical value to define it.

 

[Macadamia]

Well fun enough these natives don't seem to have changed.

Now you might be right about 'asir', although in all honesty I wouldn't know for sure how it is related to 'usin' and 'usil' exactly.
But in that context, it would be interesting to know the relation, more precisely how both values would be calculated out of asir.

But the fact that you can set arbitrary values in both unit fields makes me wonder...

 

[Cheshire]

how both values would be calculated out of asir.

I just meant that if you set something to 'usir' of a unit it will automatically switch between 'usin' and 'usil' according to the time of day... no complex calculations needed. Initially I assumed that setting something to the 'usir' of a unit just set it to the current sight radius, and afterwards when time of day changed - the sight radius would remain as the previous value.

should be easy enough to check I guess...

 

[Macadamia]

Well thanks actually, this is worth knowing indeed.

Guess we all learn something everyday ;-)

 

[Cheshire]

what? this is purely a hypothesis. I have not yet checked it

sorry for not being clear... i was just interpreting what I meant in my previous post...

 

[Macadamia]

Yes I probably read it a bit too fast

Anyways I suppose it will be worth checking this theory because I can't seem to find any easy alternative so far.
Will try that as soon as I can breathe a moment ^^