[vJASS] Locus unit detection

[D3athM3at]

Hey everyone, i started a new project and i stumbled on a huge problem.. Basically all spells in my map are custom made (I'm not using any default spells like thunderbolt, i make dummy unit for missile and move it with triggers, add stun etc..) and i decided to make spell which could block other spells (2 spells collide and both missiles are destroyed), as always I give Invulnerable (Neutral) and Locus spells to dummy, but when i do so my spell doesn't work both missiles just pass each other and nothing happens (reason is locus spell). For unit detection I'm using GroupEnumUnitsInRange() function but somehow it does not detect units with locus spell. Any ideas how to fix this?
I would prefer not changing GroupEnumUnitsInRange() function because that would mess up my code.

EDIT: forgot to mention that locus spell cannot be removed.

 

[PurgeandFire]

call GroupEnumUnitsOfPlayer(group, player, boolexpr)

http://wiki.thehelper.net/wc3/jass/common.j/GroupEnumUnitsOfPlayer

That will be able to enumerate locust units. Then just check IsUnitInRange(unit, unit, real) or IsUnitInRangeXY(unit, real, real, real).

 

[D3athM3at]

Thx alot its working now

 

[defskull]

How do we apply this in GUI, sir Purge ?
I mean like I have 2 missile moving, and I want to detect if each of them has Locust.

I'm quite blur with the function.

 

[PurgeandFire]

I think for GUI it'll be something like "Pick every unit of Player 1 (Red)". Then you can check if the unit has locust or do w/e you want. "Pick every unit in range" will ignore locust units while "Pick every unit of player" will include them.

 

[mckill2009]

first time I knew that Pick units of player can catch locust units, which makes sense since a locust unit is a player unit same as units in group while units in range is not...gonna try it at home...

 

[PurplePoot]

This code is quite outdated (2007! with minor vJass updates) and I wouldn't recommend using it, but it may be worth looking at regardless since it is designed to address the problem you want to solve in a reasonably Warcraft III-like manner.