Factory Ability

[Hell_Raider]

The factory ability has an option to make it cost mana, I set it to costing 50 mana but it still seems to cast even if there is no mana. anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

 

[SA Dashie]

This what your looking for?

Abbility

Events

Unit - A unit Begins channeling an ability

Conditions

Actions

If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)

If - Conditions

(Mana of (Casting unit)) Greater than or equal to 50.00

Then - Actions

Unit - Set mana of (Casting unit) to ((Percentage mana of (Casting unit)) - 50.00)

Else - Actions

Unit - Order (Casting unit) to Stop

 

[Hell_Raider]

You sir, are a saint. Plus rep!

 

[Bribe]

(Casting unit) -> (Triggering unit). It's quicker to select (Triggering unit) from the selection list, and it executes more quickly in-game... win/win.

 

[Hell_Raider]

I was wondering if there is a way to select units from the game instead of the map. I have been looking over the last few days and all I can find is the option to select a unit from the map and, this is all well and good unless I don't have the units at the start of the game.

 

[Bribe]

What unit do you want to pick out from the list?

 

[Hell_Raider]

Well its a custom unit called "sentinal facility" under the "custum human" area, but the only problem is I can only figure out how to do triggers on units already on the map, but these don't get built until pretty far into the game.

 

[Bribe]

• Trigger
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Custom script: set bj_wantDestroyGroup = true
    • Unit Group - Pick All units in (Playable Map Area) Matching (Unit type of (Matching unit) Equal to Sentinel Facility) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • -------- In this part, (Picked unit) refers to the Sentinel Facility --------

 

[SA Dashie]

lol, saint? Just glad to help=P

 

[Hell_Raider]

I'm having a litte trouble replicating

"Unit - Set mana of (Casting unit) to ((Percentage mana of (Casting unit)) - 50.00)"

all I could do was
Unit- Set mana of (Casting unit) to 100% (and different variables of 100%)

 

[Bribe]

It's found under the "Arithmatic" category.

And use (Triggering unit) not (Casting unit).

 

[SA Dashie]

how can (Triggering unit) be more officiant than (Casting unit) any way? I know why there are varies of them for each event though.

 

[defskull]

Since, (Triggering unit) is on the top of the list of Event.
The system always refer (Triggering unit) first, before any other, which will performs faster and efficient
We can't pretty much see the differences, but trust me, it IS different.
But we can't use (Triggering unit) as (Killing unit), but we can refer it to (Dying unit) in an Event such as "Unit - Generic Unit Event" -> "A unit Dies"
Basically, in an Event, it has 2 thing, which is A and B
A would be likely to be the (Triggering unit) whereas B serves as (XXX Unit)

Situation A:

• Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability

The initial word which is the "A unit..." refers to (Triggering unit) whereas the connection of this Event would be (Target unit of ability being cast), right ?

Situation B:

• Unit - A unit Finishes construction

"A unit..." refers to (Triggering unit) whereas the connection of this Event would be (Constructed structure)
We can also use (Constructing structure) as (Triggering unit) but it works faster by using the (Triggering unit)

 

[Bribe]

(Casting unit) (Attacked unit) (Dying unit) ... these are just wrappers for (Triggering unit). Why they are not just BJ's is a mystery.

(Triggering unit) is more intuitive in all but one case - "A unit is summoned". You don't know if it should be the summoner or what-have-you. In this case, the summoned unit is the triggering unit.

(Triggering unit) is the first item on the list, fastest to work with.

(Triggering unit) is less buggy - still works after a Wait period.

 

[SA Dashie]

:L shouldn't of asked, lol.always good to know that someone is gonna reply though