creating units with chat

[adventcirno]

I've set 100+ unit type as variables, was wondering is there a shortcut to summon a unit type by just typing their corresponding variable number in event chat? I dont want to put a event chat one by one

here is a example

Events
Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing 1 as An exact match
Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing 2 as An exact match
Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing 3 as An exact match
Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing 100 as An exact match
Conditions
Actions
Unit - Create 1 RNG_UNIT[(Integer((Entered chat string)))] for Player 1 (Red) at (Center of (Playable map area)) facing Default building facing degrees

 

[Warseeker]

Do you mean Reel however entering variable number won't be so sure, I'd rather use a variable name
Or just type a unit type name to summon.

 

[WereElf]

And I would do it like:
Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing -summon as A substring
Actions:
Set TempInteger = String to Integer(Substring(Entered chat string, 9, String Lenght(Entered chat string)))
Unit - Create 1 RNG_UNIT[TempInteger] for Player 1 (Red) at (Center of (Playable map area)) facing Default building degrees

 

[Chaosy]

What happens if the string contains a character?
Example:

-summon 34b

where b is written by mistake. I don't think it would crash but..

 

[A Void]

What happens if the string contains a character?
Example:

-summon 34b

where b is written by mistake. I don't think it would crash but..

It will do nothing, nothing will happen.

 

[WereElf]

it will convert the string to integer until the 1-st non-digit. For example:
25 = 25
34b = 34
127m9 = 127
6 8 = 6

 

[Chaosy]

Ah. Looks like I worried needlessly.

 

[Wietlol]

It will do nothing, nothing will happen.

Sometimes it crashes... depends on what you are doing with it.

You should make a command starting with "-" or "/" followed by a string that will be used to summon the minions.

For example:
/summon 192
/summon 5
/summon 0
/summon a

You check if the entered chat string starts with "/summon ",
then you do a substring call to remove that part, so you will get:
"192"
"5"
"0"
"a"

Then you can do an interger conversion (from string to integer).
Then you check if the value is not 0 aka is a valid number (illegal numbers are also displayed as 0).
Then you can use that as your number to spawn the unit.

If you want to have additional parameters like:
/summon unit_type x_coord y_coord
then you have to split up the string in words.
There should be a library around here with the functions to do that.

 

[adventcirno]

my friend already solved it for me

test summon init
Events
Map initialization
Conditions
Actions
-------- Set how many units in list -1. --------
Set max_summ_var = 1
-------- Set units here, from 0 to max_summ_var. --------
Set summ[0] = Blood Mage
Set summ[1] = Mountain King
Set summ[2] = Archmage
Set summ[3] = Paladin
-------- LIST END --------
-------- Unit text event initialization adding. --------
For each (Integer A) from 1 to 12, do (Actions)
Loop - Actions
Trigger - Add to test summon <gen> the event (Player - (Player((Integer A))) types a chat message containing -n as A substring)

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test summon
Events
Conditions
Actions
Set summ_var = (Integer((Substring((Entered chat string), 3, 6))))
If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
If - Conditions
summ_var Less than or equal to summ_var
Then - Actions
Unit - Create 1 summ[summ_var] for (Triggering player) at (Point((Target X of current camera view), (Target Y of current camera view))) facing (Random angle) degrees
Game - Display to (Player group((Triggering player))) the text: (Summoned: + (String(summ[summ_var])))
Else - Actions
Game - Display to (Player group((Triggering player))) the text: No unit yet. Coming...

 

[LordDz]

my friend already solved it for me

• test summon init
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • -------- Set how many units in list -1. --------
    • Set max_summ_var = 1
    • -------- Set units here, from 0 to max_summ_var. --------
    • Set summ[0] = Blood Mage
    • Set summ[1] = Mountain King
    • Set summ[2] = Archmage
    • Set summ[3] = Paladin
    • -------- LIST END --------
    • -------- Unit text event initialization adding. --------
    • For each (Integer A) from 1 to 12, do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Trigger - Add to test summon <gen> the event (Player - (Player((Integer A))) types a chat message containing -n as A substring)

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• test summon
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set summ_var = (Integer((Substring((Entered chat string), 3, 6))))
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • summ_var Less than or equal to summ_var
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Create 1 summ[summ_var] for (Triggering player) at (Point((Target X of current camera view), (Target Y of current camera view))) facing (Random angle) degrees
        • Game - Display to (Player group((Triggering player))) the text: (Summoned: + (String(summ[summ_var])))
      • Else - Actions
        • Game - Display to (Player group((Triggering player))) the text: No unit yet. Coming...

There ya go. Now it's readable.

 

[Wietlol]

I suppose that
"Set max_summ_var = 1"
should be
"Set max_summ_var = 3"

 

[adventcirno]

yah i forgot to change the "max_summ_var" to = 3
it doesn't matter anyways it has no purpose in that trigger yet