[Trigger] Is it possible to take stats from a unit for use in variables?

[Jazztastic]

In a GUI (or very simple JASS) function, is it possible to be able to take a units damage, or how much armor they have, or their attack speed? I would really like to be able to set this to a variable.

 

[Dr Super Good]

No, this is not possible directly.

You can kind of emulate this behaviour by keeping track of the unit's state (what they have effecting it) and computing the result using script. Obviously this involves a rather large data management system and a huge amount of initial loading (usually generated by some vJASS macro).

In Blizzard's more recent game StarCraft II this is nativly possible as you can read game data values from the catalogs.

 

[Jazztastic]

Another question (I don't feel like making another thread)

Is it possible to create illusions of a target unit by triggers? Or if I use an illusion spell to create illusions, how can I reference them?

 

[chenlimin]

there's an item that create illusion of the target, it's called illusion wand or something.

 

[Jazztastic]

I know but is it possible to select those created illusions via triggers to perform other actions with them?

 

[HuanAk]

• Autocast Mirage
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Is attacked
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Attacking unit)) Equal to Maverick fighter
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Mana of (Attacking unit)) Greater than or equal to 30.00
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Order (Attacking unit) to Orc Blademaster - Mirror Image
      • Else - Actions

• Assign illusion to player
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Spawns a summoned unit
  • Conditions
    • ((Summoned unit) is an illusion) Equal to True
  • Actions
    • Set Temp_Unit = (Summoned unit)
    • Set Temp_Integer = (Custom value of (Summoning unit))
    • Unit - Set the custom value of Temp_Unit to Temp_Integer
    • Unit Group - Add Temp_Unit to Fighter_Group_Player[Temp_Integer]
    • Unit Group - Add Temp_Unit to Fighter_Group

just add illusion to group, then you can do anything you want

edit:
if you want to "add" illusion spell to targeted unit
then remove spell on 2nd trigger

 

[Bannar]

Yeah it is. Just use event Unit Enters region mixed with boolean condition ((Triggering unit) is Illusion) Equals to True.
EDIT: Sorry HuanAk; didn't see your post.

Btw don't manipulate custom values like that. It's evil and risky in case it interferes with Unit Indexers; so.. it sucks xD.
Just use Unit Indexer instead which sets custom values to all units on map automaticaly.

 

[WaterKnight]

You can create unit dummies of your type and order them to attack other dummies to get values like armor or attack damage out of the taken damage, which is of course inconvenient and may be imprecise.

There are some tools that combine object editor data with trigger script (which might not be so easy however). For example, in my current map, I do not create new stuff in object editor but run the ObjectMerger included in JNGP that can be started from external scripts within Code.