Corpse system

[Amigurumi]

Hi hive!

I want to make a system, that when you kill (example) a stag, it will die, and you can loot the corpse.
(normal inventory)

Now my problems:

1. when I order the corpse to give my hero the item, the dead stag stands up (plays stand animation) rotates to my hero, and give him the item.
2. I can order the corpse to move around, but it only should lie there on the ground.

So now can I avoid, that the animal plays the stand animation, and turning to my hero?
And how can I avoid, that I can't move the animal around?
Are there triggers to prevent this? Or must I create for each unit a second, dead unit?

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For helping/trying or solving this problem, you will get +rep!

Thx in advance

 

[Catch_ya]

There is this loot system on hive..
Loot system
Hope it helped you good luck

 

[Amigurumi]

well thanks, but if I click on your link, this text appears:

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1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
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maybe post it again?

 

[Destroyer95]

I see you're working hard on the project
I'm not so good with systems but I can try to help. Maybe you can just create an item on the place of the corpse and order the unit to pick it up (if this doesn't make any sence and is totaly different from what you need, then I didn't quite understand what you're trying to do xD )

 

[Catch_ya]

hmm strange it always worked for me anyway.. ill try again..

Loot
if this doesnt work go in the spells section and type in filter "loot"

 

[Amigurumi]

@ Catch_ya: this time it worked
thx, but this is not what I'm looking for. This system was made with dialogs, but I will just use the normal inventory for it.
but ty for helping, +rep

@ Destroyer95: no, that's also not that what I'm looking for
and it's not for our project, but we could use it too, if I get it to work.

 

[Catch_ya]

Anyway good luck finding one im sorry it wasnt that you were looking for

 

[Element of Water]

Try killing the unit properly, suspending the corpse decay, and adding a different unit with an invisible model over the top but with the same items.

 

[Amigurumi]

so there's no way to avoid creating a new unit for it?

 

[Element of Water]

I guess you could set its animation using SetUnitAnimationByIndex. You'd have to work out what the death animation was for each creep, however.

 

[Amigurumi]

but it would also turn to the hero...
so I have to create a new unit for it...
but thanks for your help, +rep

if someone finds a solution, post it

 

[Element of Water]

Can you lock the unit's facing with SetUnitLookAt?

 

[Amigurumi]

is that possible to lock the facing?
I'm working with gui, but if the unit wouldn't face to another point (hero), then
I could use it with custom script... would be awesome

 

[Element of Water]

• Animation - Lock No unit's Head to face No unit, offset by (0.00, 0.00, 90.00)

It's a GUI action too . Play around with it, it might work.

 

[PvSvN]

make the Data -Drop items On death - false (in object editor)

then

• test
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Dies
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Hero - Drop (Item carried by (Dying unit) in slot 1) from (Dying unit)
    • Hero - Give (Last dropped item) to (Killing unit)
    • Hero - Drop (Item carried by (Dying unit) in slot 2) from (Dying unit)
    • Hero - Give (Last dropped item) to (Killing unit)

This is using unit inventory (human) Normal

 

[Amigurumi]

but I want, that the player can choose by himself, what items he pick out of the inventory.

 

[PvSvN]

well how are you selecting the item now ?

 

[Amigurumi]

you kill an animal, it dies, changes player to your player (so you can loot it), and it
gets an inventory (hero with 6 slots, standart ability.)
Then you can drag the items from the animal inventory to yours.
Like in normal wc3 maps.

 

[PvSvN]

can you post your triggers

 

[tml616]

yes you have to make a dummy unit because any order you give to a unit that's playing the decay animation will change to another living animation.

so my suggestion is to use hashtables here and do this:

when a unit with loot dies, make a dummy unit with the same inventory
assign the dummy unit to the dying unit in a hashtable so they are linked
when the dying unit is selected, automatically select the dummy instead

this way the dying unit will stay as a corpse while keeping the illusion that you selected it, when you really selected an invisible dummy unit.

 

[Coolty44]

Try nuking its animation speed to 0, in theory you'll be done with it before it moves. I'm not sure if it allows other animations to be played or not though..