Killing a Unit w Triggers

[RiotZ]

I want to kill a unit with a function but be able to set a killing unit that can be referenced.

The normal GUI function to kill a unit would work if it returned a killing unit.

Is it possible to do this with custom script?

 

[PurplePoot]

Ideally you should just have the killing unit do an arbitrarily large amount of damage to the killed unit, or cast some sort of spell which kills said unit.

 

[RiotZ]

I thought about this but it may severely impact my DDS system.

 

[PurplePoot]

It should be fairly easy to hardcode your damage detection system to, for example, ignore damage in excess of 10,000 or whatever some reasonable limit is to damage that can be dealt in your map. Any damage detection system worth its salt should also come with a way to deal damage which won't be registered by the system.

 

[Marcos_M]

Your DDS doesn't have a "pure damage" flag? Or a "turn off/on" option?

 

[RiotZ]

The problem is I have it rigged to disperse all damage done to squad members to a squad leader thereby collectivizing their HP pools. Once the HP threshold drops below HP/SquadSize * some percentage I came up with based on a calculation... The unit taking damage dies. Killing the unit is the problem. I can't get the killing unit. I suppose I could just trigger all relevant triggers to ignore damage above a certain threshold yeah that just seems wonky though.

 

[Marcos_M]

You can also kill it with a "Set unit life to 1" -> "Cause 20 dmg to unit" that should be ez

 

[RiotZ]

That's honestly a better idea, it shouldn't interfere with my DDS triggers much if at all.