How to drasticaly increase unit sight?

[Marshmalo]

Hi, I want to drasticaly increase the sight radius of all units beyond the 1800 limit that world editor allows, anyway I can do this?

I also need to set it so all units have flying sight, I tried setting all doodads occular Height to 0 but there are still some that seem to get in the way and block sight so I imagine setting all units to fly visibilty type might help with this. But is this possible?

Please can anyone help.

 

[Spartipilo]

I think you can "Shift + Doble click" and enter any value to want.

 

[Marshmalo]

I've set them to 5000 visibility but it still dosnt work, ingame they only reveal the default 1800 sight radius.

 

[Dr Super Good]

You will have to script it as there is no way to break the limit.

 

[Marshmalo]

What do you mean by Script? Jass?

 

[Meticulous]

You can do it in GUI fairly easily as well. But you can't do it via object editor.

 

[Marshmalo]

You can do it in GUI fairly easily as well. But you can't do it via object editor.

Ok, how do I do it please?

 

[Meticulous]

I'm not sure if this will effect performance if used with a large number of units, but it probably will, so you'd be safe using this only for units you need to have extended vision. Also change 3000.00 to whatever you want of course.

Trigger

• Vision
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.05 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set group = (Units in (Playable map area))
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in group and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Set loc = (Position of (Picked unit))
        • Visibility - Destroy (Load (Key (Picked unit)) of 1 in Table)
        • Visibility - Create an initially Enabled visibility modifier for (Owner of (Picked unit)) emitting Visibility from loc to a radius of 3000.00
        • Hashtable - Save Handle Of(Last created visibility modifier) as (Key (Picked unit)) of 1 in Table
        • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_loc)
    • Custom script: call DestroyGroup(udg_group)

 

[Spartipilo]

I think that making it as a "Every 1 second" or "0.5" seconds is more than enough. You would save 10 to 20 events per second and it's almost the same in this case.

 

[noj]

I agree with Spart... the visibility change constant it around 0.45 no need to go faster then that.

 

[Marshmalo]

thx for the replies I will try your trigger meticulous but I don' realy know much about hash tables. :s

 

[Spartipilo]

Trigger

• Vision
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.5 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set group = (Units in (Playable map area))
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in group and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Set unt = (Picked Unit)
        • Set loc = (Position of unt)
        • Custom script: set udg_int = GetHandleId(udg_unt)
        • Visibility - Destroy int of 1 in Table
        • Visibility - Create an initially Enabled visibility modifier for (Owner of unt) emitting Visibility from loc to a radius of 3000.00
        • Hashtable - Save Handle Of(Last created visibility modifier) as int of 1 in Table
        • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_loc)
    • Custom script: call DestroyGroup(udg_group)

Here it's a bit optimized.

There's no need to know a lot of Hashtables, just follow instructions.
It's like a ChessBoard, where you assign a unit (piece) to a specific square (G4, or 7x4). Here you save the UnitID in a giant board of data. The unit ID may be 41993285672 and we're storing this value in the "1" of the table. Though we see numbers, the game reads "41993285672" as "Footman" or any unit.

That's why this: Hashtable - Save Handle Of(Last created visibility modifier) as int of 1 in Table. We save the "VisibilityID" as the "Unit ID" in "1" in the Table... or something like that.