Hide Units from Other Players

[Justicebringer]

I made a picking system .Its like you have to select a unit that will appear in the
middle of the screen ,with a nice background .The camera is fixed .The system still works fine except my map is multiplayer ,so need a solution to hide out the other players units from the screen .I didnt find a way to achieve this in WE .
Help,i dont want to make 12 backgrounds

 

[Lender]

umm, create the selectable unit for local player
you made something like pressing a button changes the hero and pressing another choses it?

 

[Adiktuz]

I'm not sure but doing this might cause desyncs...

 

[defskull]

Help,i dont want to make 12 backgrounds

So you create only 1 background for it to be shared by 12 players ?
What's wrong with that ?
Why do you need to hide unit from other player ?

By having a rough guess, I think that you're trying to make a Hero Selection System where Player will select their Heroes based on the unit that they click.

Why not just create those Units normally and detect which Player clicks it by using this event;

• Setup
  • Events
    • Unit - Blood Mage Selector 0000 <gen> Is selected
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • -------- Use (Triggering player) to refer to the Player who selects the unit. --------
    • Unit - Create 1 Blood Mage for (Triggering player) at YourLocation facing Default building facing degrees

But, this is just a mere assumption, I don't know what you're trying to achieve by hiding units from Player if you're using the same background.

 

[Lender]

I think if the selecting units are created for neutral passive (no attack, no move, etc..) it won't couse desyncs, but can't check atm...

 

[Adiktuz]

if it's just graphical hiding, then maybe it won't...

• Actions
  • Unit - Hide UNIT
  • Custom script: if GetLocalPlayer() = ThePlayer then
  • Custom script: call ShowUnit(udg_UNIT, true)
  • Custom script: endif

this might be it

 

[Cokemonkey11]

I'm not sure if this will work, but try:

• Create the unit at the background area for the player who selects it
• Create a dummy unit with invisibility spell
• Make dummy cast invisibility on unit in the background area
• Change vertex coloring of invisible unit to 100%

That should create the unit and hide it from enemy players. Note this won't work if your map has teams.

 

[defskull]

If you still want to hide the unit from non-local-Player Sight, you can do the GetLocalPlayer() method BUT the purpose is just to select heroes, and that's that.

Don't make it interact with anything else, if it does, it would cause some errors there which will lead to desynchronization and has tendency to be disconnected.

 

[Justicebringer]

I'm not sure if this will work, but try:

• Create the unit at the background area for the player who selects it
• Create a dummy unit with invisibility spell
• Make dummy cast invisibility on unit in the background area
• Change vertex coloring of invisible unit to 100%

That should create the unit and hide it from enemy players. Note this won't work if your map has teams.

It doesnt works because changing vertex coloring does nothing with invisible objects ,only can change their color ,but they still remain transparent.
Anyway thanks for the tip!

 

[Justicebringer]

@defskull
@Adiktuz Thnx ,it looks a nice solution but im very bad with custom scrypts .So i failed to
make it .

• If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
  • If - Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Sold unit)) Equal to BuyingDummyAlly[1]
  • Then - Actions
    • Unit - Remove (Load 0 of (Integer((Name of BuyerPlayer))) in ImageUnitTable) from the game
    • Unit - Create 1 ImageDummyAlly[1] for BuyerPlayer at (Position of AllyPickerPositingUnit) facing (Position of AllyPickFacingUnit)
    • Hashtable - Save Handle Of(Last created unit) as 0 of (Integer((Name of BuyerPlayer))) in ImageUnitTable
    • Set Hidden_Unit = (Load 0 of (Integer((Name of BuyerPlayer))) in ImageUnitTable)
    • Unit - Hide Hidden_Unit
    • Custom script: if GetLocalPlayer() = udg_BuyerPlayer then
    • Custom script: call ShowUnit(udg_Hidden_Unit , true)
    • Custom script: endif
  • Else - Actions

i made this .And the unit is hidden even for me .

 

[Tirlititi]

it should be if GetLocalPlayer() == udg_BuyerPlayer then . That's strange you didn't end up with an error.

I recommend you to test in multiplayer as soon as you get it work because I'm not sure it won't cause desync even if it is only a selection issue (will the other computers accept that you selected an hidden unit?). If it was already tested and approved, then that's a good thing to know ^^.

 

[Arhowk]

I believe this will cause desyncs if i either order a unit toward the hidden unit or the hidden unit is isused an order. I play with this command

 

[Justicebringer]

Oh ,was that a lack of = ? haha
Thank you guys ,now it works properly .And i think its not gonna couse desync in multiplayer ,because it is a simple locusted unit , does nothing but shows a standing animation .

 

[Arhowk]

Oh ,was that a lack of = ? haha
Thank you guys ,now it works properly .And i think its not gonna couse desync in multiplayer ,because it is a simple locusted unit , does nothing but shows a standing animation .

Ah. that won't cause problems than

 

[Dr Super Good]

The unit shown is a special effect. The acutal unit which the player is forced to select (to see abilites) is nowhere to be seen.