Giving Unique ID to multiple summoned units?

[IamFierce]

I am nearing the part in my project where a portion of my units will summon other units. They don’t summon just one, but can summon many from the same spell. The question I have is this:

Is there a way in which I can ID these units, or add them to a UG once they have been summoned? I want to be able to give them order comamands and buffs, etc..

Thanks much. I’ve searched, but I haven’t found a clear answer to my question in the archives.

 

[Death Adder]

What do you mean exactly?

You can detect when a unit is summoned and you can add the unit to some unitgroup, array, or hashtable.

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Spawns a summoned unit
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit Group - Add (Summoned unit) to unitGroup

To be able to know from which ability the units were summoned you can make use of the unit type and/or check whether the summoning unit's level of said ability is level 1 or higher.

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Spawns a summoned unit
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Level of Summon Water Elemental for (Triggering unit)) Greater than or equal to 1
        • Or - Any (Conditions) are true
          • Conditions
            • (Unit-type of (Summoned unit)) Equal to Water Elemental (Level 1)
            • (Unit-type of (Summoned unit)) Equal to Water Elemental (Level 2)
            • (Unit-type of (Summoned unit)) Equal to Water Elemental (Level 3)
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit Group - Add (Summoned unit) to waterElementals
      • Else - Actions

Besides that you'd have to explain yourself some more if there's something in particular that you need help with.

 

[IamFierce]

thanks for the reply and the triggers.

I see that those work for a single summon spawn, but can A unique ID be given to more than a single spawn if the ability, like far seer’s wolves, summons more than one unit at a time?

 

[Zepher]

Set up a trigger which uniquely identifies summoned unit 1 as variable 1 and summoned unit 2 as variable 2

I thought I had to do something similar to this because I wanted unit created from dark portal to be removed after 60 seconds, but I found that you could just give them an expiration timer

 

[IamFierce]

Thanks very much for the replies + reps.