how can i make a unit garrison inside a neutral building and change its owner

[andreasaspenberg]

the owner of the building that is. i need a method to make buildings neutral when units arent inside and owned when there is units inside.

 

[Squiggy]

How do you even enter such structures?
Do you use an ability based on load?

 

[andreasaspenberg]

it needs to be a system that enables multiple units to garrison inside the building but that change the owner of the building from neutral to the owner of the unit. removing all units from it or will cause it to become neutral again.

 

[deathismyfriend]

Try this

Trig1

Events
Unit in range of neutral building
Conditions
Actions
Hide unit
Add unit to garrison group 1
Change owner of unit neutral building and change color if wanted
Increase attack / speed per unit if wanted

 

[andreasaspenberg]

the unit needs to be ordered to garrison. i would prefer to use a garrison ability though if possible.

 

[MajorKaza]

1st: give it tradeing skills like shop
2nd: add garison skill (will be able to use by anyone near if unit is neutral)
3rd: when skill is used change owner and use again by trigger.

You can use custom data to control units count (0-4). If 0 then switch back.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

i tried that but i dont know the right target configuration needed to make it work. are you able to help me there.

 

[NightSkyAurora]

Give the building devour (natural hostle), Devour cargo - (set devour cargo damage to 0) and unload. If your unit is close to a building and casts a 'enter' ability, order the building to devour the casting unit and make the building yours via triggers. to exit the building - unload.

Targets allowed:
devour (natural hostle) - enemy, friend, invulnerable, organic, vulnerable
Devour cargo - enemy, friend, ground, invulnerable, natural, vulnerable
unload - defult

note: you can only have one unit inside at a time. Maby you can have more than one but I didn't find a way yet.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

what du you suggest for the enter ability.

 

[NightSkyAurora]

there are many ways:
-make a custom roar ability and modifi it to do nothing. if a unit is close enough to the building, use triggers to add the enter abilty, else remove the ability.
a unit starts the effect of an ability
ability being cast equal to roar
order 'your building' to natural devour casting unit
(no need to check range because nothing will happen when the casting unit is further than the casting range of devour)

-OR-

-give the building the abilty to buy a free unit (like travens on melee maps where you can buy heroes or hire units). Lets name the free unit 'enter' and go to triggers.
If a unit comes within 100 range of your building.
Entering unit equals to 'enter'
Remove entering unit from the game.
Pick every unit within 100 range of your building and do actions
order 'your building' to natural devour picked unit.

-OR-

Use a target ability. Lets take a modified Acid bomb and call it 'enter'; your acid bomb or enter has 100 cast range
A unit starts the effect of an ability
Ability being cast equal to 'enter'
order (target of ability being cast) to natural devour (casting unit)

 

[MajorKaza]

There is Loading Unit pointer and unit custom value.

Custom value should be equal to loaded units count.

+1 per each loaded unit
-1 per each unloaded unit

And no need custom ability for this. Just script. Try in vJass section how to refer to easiest refer to loaded unit.