Ground Unit condition

[wacik]

I am currently making a triggered spell and I am encountering one serious problem. I am making a condition which is used to select the units which are affected by a spell. This condition specifies that the matching unit is a ground unit. However it appears that amphibious units do not fall under this condition as they are not being affected. This is a real problem as I need this spell to be able to affect a mixture of amphibious and ground units but not air units. Anyone know of a way to do this by using another condition?

 

[claptomanic]

why not using 'is an air unit equal to false' ?

 

[Dr. Boom]

Well true is faster then false:

• ((Target unit of ability being cast) is A ground unit) Equal to True

About amphibious type I don't know but actually it should work when you use this condition. [Boolean Comparison]

 

[wacik]

Right now that's what I'm using. However that also requires that I make other conditions such as 'is a structure equal to false' and such, which I'm trying to avoid cause this isn't the only spell that I'm making for this map.

 

[mckill2009]

This:

• ((Triggering unit) is A flying unit) Equal to False

however you may add an 'and' to filter out structures, etc...

 

[PurplePoot]

This:

• ((Triggering unit) is A flying unit) Equal to False

however you may add an 'and' to filter out structures, etc...

And is assumed by default; you only need to explicitly use it when inside an Or.

 

[Dr. Boom]

Do I get it correct, that you just want to type the conditions just once but you wanna use them more times for different spells?
In this case, I just can give you something in Jass, because I tried but don't know how you can do it in GUI:

1) Make a trigger named (as example) filter. Convert this trigger to custom text, delete everything and add this:

function filter takes unit u, player p returns boolean
    return GetWidgetLife(u) > 0.405 and IsUnitEnemy(u,p) and IsUnitType(u,UNIT_TYPE_GROUND) == true and IsUnitType(u,UNIT_TYPE_STRUCTURE) == false and IsUnitType(u,UNIT_TYPE_MAGIC_IMMUNE) == false
endfunction

2) Now you create your spell and for using this filter you have to do this:

• Actions
  • Custom script: if filter(GetSpellTargetUnit(),GetOwningPlayer(GetTriggerUnit())) then
  • Unit - Kill (Target unit of ability being cast)
  • Custom script: endif

3) For a GUI group pick action it would be like this (since you don't wanna add all the conditions for a direct filter):

• Actions
  • Set UnitVariable = (Triggering unit)
  • Set PointVariable = (Position of UnitVariable)
  • Set GroupVariable = (Units within 500.00 of PointVariable)
  • Unit Group - Pick every unit in GroupVariable and do (Actions)
    • Loop - Actions
      • Custom script: if filter(GetEnumUnit(),GetOwningPlayer(udg_UnitVariable)) then
      • Unit - Kill (Picked unit)
      • Custom script: endif
  • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_PointVariable)
  • Custom script: call DestroyGroup(udg_GroupVariable)

 

[wacik]

Alright guys, thanks for all the help. Right now the trigger I was using, uses several conditions instead of one only, to define a 'ground unit'. I was merely trying to see if there was an easier method to do this, that's all because I am using several spells which use this condition. And not only this condition but many others as well. I was trying to avoid having to insert about 7 conditions when defining a unit group (which requires the use of several 'and' functions). However it appears that this is not possible, so I'll just use the current format.

@Dr. Boom, I'm really not that comfortable using Jass as I'm not very familiar with it, so I think I'll pass on your solution. But thanks anyway