Lever as a unit

[sethmachine]

Hi,

I would like to make a custom unit that is basically a lever.

When it dies, it goes to off mode, and can be turned back on.

I tried making lever off of Human Farm, set decay to false, and gave it the model file for lever (Doodads\Cinematic\DungeonLever\DungeonLever).

When it dies, it does turn off, but then it disappears, even though I said it did not decay.

I want to make a lever unit based so that way I can scale its health (i.e. bonus mod) arbitrarily in game. Destructables don't have abilities, so cannot use a bonus mod system to add health if I use the plain jane lever WC3 provides.

So how can I make a lever that is unit based?

 

[IcyMind]

Create two units. One unit is the lever turned on, the other one turned off. Create a trigger that replaces the unit with the other unit when it dies. Create a variable that remembers the amount you wanted in the ability or whatever you meant, then give it to the unit that replaced the other each time.

 

[Pharaoh_]

I am not sure what exactly you plan with it, when you change it to its death animation, but this could work:

• Lever
  • Events
    • Unit - Lever 0000 <gen> Takes damage
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Custom script: if GetWidgetLife(GetTriggerUnit()) - GetEventDamage() < 0.405 then
    • Custom script: call UnitAddAbility (GetTriggeringUnit(), 'Aloc')
    • Animation - Play (Triggering unit)'s death animation
    • Custom script: endif

You can also set its life to full, if you want to repeat this and remove the Locust action. In that case you just need to save a boolean or an integer to see at which state it is.

 

[sethmachine]

Create two units. One unit is the lever turned on, the other one turned off. Create a trigger that replaces the unit with the other unit when it dies. Create a variable that remembers the amount you wanted in the ability or whatever you meant, then give it to the unit that replaced the other each time.

I couldn't use your solution because I need the handle id to not change when the lever comes back (i.e. same unit instance).

Ah many thanks Pharaoh. This is exactly what I was looking for--how to play a unit's animation.

And you answered my follow up question--how to toggle between on/off. Many thanks!

What is a unit's normal animation--i.e. what to do to switch it back on? "stand?"

Otherwise I think this is solved.

 

[chobibo]

"stand" will work, or the trigger action "reset animation", I forgot the exact text label.

 

[sethmachine]

"stand" works, but it doesn't play a lever sound.

any animation that would play the lever death sound when resetting it?

or would I need to manually play it as a 3-D sound?

 

[chobibo]

Either that or ask someone to edit the model to activate the sound event during the model's stand frame.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Yeah, death sounds register on death events, not on animation playing. This is why the sounds passed on the model are called event objects.

Best solution is to play the sound manually, no need to import a new model when it is this simple.

 

[Ceday]

Sound plays with death animation.Sound doesn't play with stand because lever's stand animation(or call it resurrect whatever) doesn't have a sound.

 

[sethmachine]

Was a quick fix, but now it plays a sound whenever it is toggled. Thanks again!