Chat command that creates any unit

[ripper24]

Can anyone here think of a single trigger that will let a player create any unit they want as long as they give the correct name of the unit in a chat message?

 

[Axarion]

You just need that function:

native CreateUnitByName takes player whichPlayer, string unitname, real x, real y, real face returns unit

the string should be the entered chat string

 

[ripper24]

Okay, I don't know how to use Jass. :S Can you explain how I get that into my map please?

 

[Axarion]

• Unit creator
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing <Empty String> as A substring
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Custom script: call CreateUnitByName(GetTriggerPlayer(), GetEventPlayerChatString(), 0, 0 ,0)

Thats it

 

[ripper24]

Okay, thanks for your help. But I still don't understand how I do that. Do I paste what you said before in the custom script value or do I create some kind of variable?

 

[Axarion]

You have just to copy the custom script as it is and it will work But I dunno if thats language specific^^

 

[ripper24]

Okay, I pasted what you said into the "Value" box. But when I tried to save the map, an error popped up saying "Line 490: Expected a code statment". :S

 

[ripper24]

Oh wait! I pasted the wrong thing lol. Thank you so much that's awesome!

 

[ripper24]

But something else I need while your here, can you change it so it creates the unit at a unit variable? Or even better at where the players mouse cursor is?

 

[spencenator]

I beleive the 0, 0, 0 at the end is unitX, unitY, Facing angle, so find the x and y of the location, set it to a variable, and replace 0, 0, 0 with udg_XVariable_Whatever, udg_YVariable_Whatever, 0

 

[Axarion]

@ ripper24 please no double or triple posts read the rules

@ specanator that would not go because it is not really possible to get the cursor position in wc3

The only thing you could do would use a dummy ability but that would require much more skill in triggering as you have and i will not do all your work

 

[ripper24]

Thanks, can you also change that script so that you can create any number of units.

So say a player said "sheep 3" it created 3 sheep.

And spenc, what you said didn't work with the unit's position :/ Can you give it in an example trigger please?

 

[Davefin]

I posted it into your thread about the subtrings/chat commands