Knights and Merchants battle system.

[Herod]

Any of you played KaM ? I´m trying make a map with Kam´s battle system. It happens like this: When a melee unit starts combat, the player loses control of that unit, it's simple, just change the player from the attacked unit to another pc player. But how do I get the unit back under control after the fight?

 

[Cheshire]

put it in a unit group, transfer ownership, and then give all units in the unit group back to the owner after the fight.

 

[Herod]

ok but how the IA knows that the fight finishes?

 

[Cheshire]

not familiar with KAM and so I'm not sure I understand exactly what you want to do. You are trying to detect when your unit has killed the unit he was fighting? if so you could do:

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Dies
  • Conditions
    • (Killing unit) Equal to (Merchanty Knight unit)
  • Actions

 

[Herod]

When a melee unit start combat, the player loses the control of the unit. But when the fight is over the control is gave to player

 

[Herod]

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit owned by Player 1 (Red) Is attacked
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Attacked unit)) Equal to Militia
  • Actions
    • Set VariableSet UnidadesTEAL = (Attacked unit)
    • Unit - Change ownership of (Attacked unit) to Player 3 (Teal) and Retain color

• Untitled Trigger 002
  • Events
    • Time - Every 10.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Change ownership of UnidadesTEAL to Player 1 (Red) and Retain color
    • Wait 1.00 seconds
    • Unit - Change ownership of UnidadesTEAL to Player 1 (Red) and Retain color

 

[Herod]

with this worked, but sometimes, a unit that go to teal control dont come back to players´s control.... need fix

 

[Cheshire]

what you did will only work with one unit bc as soon as the second unit is set as UnidadesTEAL you no longer have access to the first unit. also bc you made the trigger periodic it will keep giving you back the unit in the middle of the fight, which is not really a problem but it might behave funny.

 

[Herod]

There´s a way to change a owners of a group of units?

Or every 20s turn teal units to rescuable??

 

[Cheshire]

this works:

• Start Fight
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Is attacked
  • Conditions
    • (Owner of (Attacking unit)) Equal to Player 1 (Red)
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (UnitGroup is empty) Equal to True
      • Then - Actions
        • Trigger - Turn on End fight loop <gen>
      • Else - Actions
    • Unit Group - Add (Attacking unit) to UnitGroup
    • Unit - Change ownership of (Attacking unit) to Player 3 (Teal) and Retain color

• End fight loop
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.50 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in UnitGroup and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Set Point = (Position of (Picked unit))
        • Set UnitsInRangeGroup = (Units within 700.00 of Point matching (((Matching unit) belongs to an enemy of Player 1 (Red)) Equal to True))
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • Or - Any (Conditions) are true
              • Conditions
                • (UnitsInRangeGroup is empty) Equal to True
                • (All units of UnitsInRangeGroup are dead) Equal to True
          • Then - Actions
            • Unit - Change ownership of (Picked unit) to Player 1 (Red) and Change color
            • Unit Group - Remove (Picked unit) from UnitGroup
          • Else - Actions
        • -------- destroy the unit group and point here to avoid leaks --------
        • Custom script: call DestroyGroup(udg_UnitsInRangeGroup)
        • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_Point)
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (UnitGroup is empty) Equal to True
      • Then - Actions
        • Trigger - Turn off (This trigger)
      • Else - Actions

make sure you have teal set as an ally with shared vision in scenario settings. Also the second trigger should be set to - enabled but initially off. And I set the range to 700 bc most ranged units have 600 (I think), but if you are using any units with artillery range, you should change that part of the trigger accordingly...

I hope this answers your question.

 

[Uncle]

Remember, you can also check if a unit is "idle" by checking if it's current order is equal to "stand down".

Looping through the UnitGroup, you can check this order for each Picked Unit.

 

[Cheshire]

Remember, you can also check if a unit is "idle" by checking if it's current order is equal to "stand down".

Looping through the UnitGroup, you can check this order for each Picked Unit.

I tried that first and I couldn't get it to work well. somehow the computer kept issuing that order between attack orders and the units kept switching ownership and were totally bugging out and not attacking.

 

[Uncle]

Really? I don't think they'll ever be considered "standing down" as long as they're in combat.

 

[Cheshire]

you can try it... that is what happened to me. maybe I missed something but I don't know what. in any case I think what I gave him here is pretty foolproof, no?

 

[Uncle]

I tested it too and you're right. That's so weird, I have working triggers that use this order, and I'm like certain that they SHOULDN'T work if it functions this way....

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Here is a better solution: catch all orders via events and overwrite them with attack orders. If the unit is killed or disengaged from combat, you will know because the attack order is reset to no order.

 

[Herod]

oh thanks man, This worked perfectly.

 

[Herod]

One more thing, in kam ranged units are fully controled,
how can i do to lose control of melee units like footmans and knights?

 

[Cheshire]

stick this in the conditions of the first trigger:

((Triggering unit) is A ranged attacker) Equal to False


- this is a boolean comparison> unit classification

 

[Herod]

So quickly not getting how the teal player have the same upgrades that player 1

 

[Cheshire]

((Triggering unit) is A ranged attacker) Equal to False

oops, this is supposed to be ((Attacking unit) is A ranged attacker) Equal to False

So quickly not getting how the teal player have the same upgrades that player 1

I don't know what this means. could you try to be a little more clear?

 

[Herod]

How I do upgrades? Like Iron Swords. Cause when the unit goes to player 3 controler, the upgrade dont appear.

• ResearchsSword Copy
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit owned by Player 1 (Red) Finishes research
  • Conditions
    • (Current research level of Blindagem de Ferro for Player 1 (Red)) Equal to 1
  • Actions
    • Wait 2.00 seconds
    • Player - Set the current research level of Blindagem de Ferro to 1 for Player 3 (Teal)

done