Increasing Range with triggers

[Lord_of_sausage]

Hi all
i've been messing around with range increase, and i cant find the trigger in GUI.
Is there a simple way to increase unit range in gui? like

• Unit - Set (unit) range to (600)

and if so, where is it?

Thanks.

 

[Xarwin]

No, you can't increase the range with triggers.

However, you can combinate it with the upgrades.
With the upgrades you may be able increasing range.

 

[Lord_of_sausage]

yes, but i never made that work :/ is there any tutorial?

 

[Razorbrain]

there is one problem though with the upgrades

you cant De-Upgrade something

 

[Smiddle]

there is one problem though with the upgrades

you cant De-Upgrade something

Well, you can do a downgrade that decreases the range.

 

[PurplePoot]

That way is impractical; it would only work a few times (and upgrades with hundreds of levels would be...)

 

[Lord_of_sausage]

so? how am i going to do if i want some of my items give different range without using itemlevel, life and all thoose things?

 

[Razorbrain]

I think that if the Acquisition Range value is smaller than the Range value, the actual range of the unit will be determinaded by the Acquisition range, and you can it on specific units with triggers, so that might work

 

[PurplePoot]

If you change the acquisition range it doesn't update the range, to my knowledge.

You could just have different units, Lord_of_sausage.

 

[Lord_of_sausage]

no, that would make far to much trouble, sience im going to have like 40 different values on ranges, and about 30 different heroes! also, when picking up a ranged weapon, it would have to reset spells, wich i dont want to happen. There must be a way.

 

[Need_O2]

why not 20000 range and
X aqusition range
aqusition range can be changed AFAIK

 

[Lord_of_sausage]

I really dont understand what you mean by Aqustition Range, i know its a value in the WE, but what excactly does it, what is it, and what do you mean?

 

[meercat]

Aqustition Range is the range where the unit can aquire a target, to put it simply, it is the range of our unit's sight where he could see the enemy and considers it as an enemy. (not the sight radius).

Aqustition IMO can be greater than range, or vice versa and they are both practical.

You could try 02's suggestion, set the range on big numbers and screw with aqustition range.

 

[Justify]

For towers it works i think, but what is with heroes? I mean, aqustition range isn't important for a player if he wants to attack an hero manuel, isn't it?

 

[Lord_of_sausage]

Well, my map is an RPG, and i want to make ranged items, but dont want them to screw up spells... anyways, ill try O2's suggestion.

Edit: Did not work, range is still 600, if i set it to 20000

 

[GhostWolf]

Just checked it. Doesn't work.

Doesn't pwn manual orders :S

 

[Lord_of_sausage]

But, then what am i going to do? using things like bear form, or upgrades?

 

[Ripoff]

Am pretty sure the rifleman upgrade increases a units range.

 

[meercat]

Am pretty sure the rifleman upgrade increases a units range.

please consider readng first posts.

 

[Lord_of_sausage]

Guys, Guys, this does not solve my problem!

Maybe there is a way to make an upgrade control range?

 

[Razorbrain]

well, i have thought of something, but it might not work and might be quite complicated and might be quite stupid

maybe have a trigger that forces the Attacking Unit to Stop if he is Attacking an Enemy outside of his range. All heroes would have the Max Range at first(except for Melee Heroes) and those that are supposed to have shorter range are stopped when attacking beyond their range.

 

[Lord_of_sausage]

well, that wouldn be so great, as it will force heroes to click-move them close enough before attacking, meaning you can click a unit from distance if you got throwing daggers etc.

 

[Razorbrain]

as i said, it might be quite stupid

so it seems that the upgrades and downgrades are the best solution, even though its ineffective

 

[Lord_of_sausage]

yes, i will go try.