Killing units

[jellybean375]

Hey Guys im making a map were you get an upgrade and you turn into a another race but i dont know how to remove all the units of that designated player so you only get the new men and your other units go away
Jelly

 

[Wietlol]

Pick every unit in (Entire Map) owned by (player) and do actions.
Unit - Kill (picked unit)

 

[jellybean375]

Pick every unit in (Entire Map) owned by (player) and do actions.
Unit - Kill (picked unit)

Thx For the help

 

[Wietlol]

You could use "Unit - Remove (picked unit)" instead of kill... that will remove them from the game and remove their data.
The difference is that you do not see corpses all over the place.

 

[fireblasts]

also i believe removing will cause less lag due to the blood animations and death ect would not show

 

[Wietlol]

The biggest reason is that dead units still exists... at least I believe that is.
Removing them will clear the data of those units.
Dead units might also be removed as soon as their corpse has been on the ground too longbut I don't really know.

 

[fireblasts]

also the death animations and so and so if you remove right away might not ocorcer meaning less lag XD

 

[StraySwordsman]

Another small thing which may or may not have an effect is that if you kill the units, yes the animations and etc will go off which means the corpses remain meaning that players who own units that interact with corpses (necromancers, death knights, ghouls etc) will gain an advantage. Might not be that big of a deal but it all depends on what kind of map and units you have and are making.

 

[nedio95]

Not sure but wont killing a unit give exp ? So... yea use Remove.

Another thing:

If you are upgrading into another race shouldn't something like "replace" be used ?

If every unit of the first race (the one which goes away) has a counterpart of the second race.
so you create a list of units and check if the unit is equal to... Something like:

Pick all units for player
== For loop IndexVar(0 to NumberOfDifferentUnits)
==== if (picked unit) = RaceONEUnit[IndexVar]
====== Replace (picked unit) with RaceTWOUnit[IndexVar]
====== Break
==== else
====|empty|

 

[Alright]

> Not sure but wont killing a unit give exp ? So... yea use Remove.

Killed units via triggers don't give exp, so it's perfectly safe to use kill function. Though, remove would be better in this case.