How to make an AI buy items?

[louie999]

I'm making a shooter map and i want the AI to buy a weapon everytime it has enough money to buy it so how to do that?

 

[Vinz]

You can't. You have to manually reduce gold, then add items once they come in range of the shop.

 

[louie999]

Thanks for the answer

 

[sethmachine]

You can't. You have to manually reduce gold, then add items once they come in range of the shop.

That's unfortunate.

Is that how the melee AI works, or does the melee AI actually never buy items, even from their own item shop?

 

[Vinz]

Melee AI does buy items and I have not looked at the code, but it is melee AI and will not work for most maps.

 

[moyackx]

You can't. You have to manually reduce gold, then add items once they come in range of the shop.

In fact, you actually can, there's some special functions in jass to do this.

http://jass.sourceforge.net/doc/api/common_j-source.shtml#1636

native IssueNeutralImmediateOrder       takes player forWhichPlayer, unit neutralStructure, string unitToBuild returns boolean
native IssueNeutralImmediateOrderById   takes player forWhichPlayer,unit neutralStructure, integer unitId returns boolean
native IssueNeutralPointOrder           takes player forWhichPlayer,unit neutralStructure, string unitToBuild, real x, real y returns boolean
native IssueNeutralPointOrderById       takes player forWhichPlayer,unit neutralStructure, integer unitId, real x, real y returns boolean
native IssueNeutralTargetOrder          takes player forWhichPlayer,unit neutralStructure, string unitToBuild, widget target returns boolean
native IssueNeutralTargetOrderById      takes player forWhichPlayer,unit neutralStructure, integer unitId, widget target returns boolean

I don't remember which suits the need of buying items (I think it's "IssueNeutralImmediateOrder" or "IssueNeutralImmediateOrderById").

I hope it helps

 

[Vinz]

Woah.. I never knew.. I was fed the wrong stuff. xD

Thanks for the info.

 

[louie999]

Lol i dont think i can do that in JASS because im not very good with it. Anyway my map's almost finished i only need to make the AI now.

 

[Vinz]

Use this.

• Custom script: funcname(arguments, arguments, arguments)