Make player lose control over a unit

[usfshihy]

I want to make an action in which the player loses control over the unit however remains the owner, like for example how we lost control over Illidan in the Expansion campaign when he was closing the demonic portals. Can someone please help.

+REP and credits for helpers!

 

[SAUS]

I don't know the full nature of that mission in the campaign, but you could potentially just put the unit on a different team that is allied to that player. This might not be best when there are lots of players that are not on teams (it would use a lot of players slots) or if you need to know which player the unit is owned by for something (like kills giving money). You could probably handle the owner problem with a hashtable, though.

What exactly do you need to do with this functionality?

 

[Nichilus]

... like for example how we lost control over Illidan in the Expansion campaign when he was closing the demonic portals....

Illidan does in fact change owner, he just retains the color of the previous one.

 

[usfshihy]

Illidan does in fact change owner, he just retains the color of the previous one.

But when I select him,I can still see his portrait talk animation like I still own him.

 

[Nichilus]

It's how the partnership between two players is set. This is from the map itself:

• Player - Make AP01_Player treat P12_IllidanChanneling as an Neutral with shared vision
• Player - For AP01_Player, turn Friendly spell targeting On toward P12_IllidanChanneling
• Player - Make P12_IllidanChanneling treat AP01_Player as an Neutral with shared vision
• ...
• Player - Make P12_IllidanChanneling treat AP01_Player as an Ally with shared vision and full shared units
• Player - For P12_IllidanChanneling, turn Help requests Off toward AP01_Player

and when Illidan enters one of the circles this is part of what happens:

• Unit - Move Illidan instantly to (Center of Dimensional Gate COP 01 <gen>), facing 170.00 degrees
• Unit - Remove All buffs from Illidan
• Unit - Change ownership of Illidan to Player 12 (Brown) and Retain color
• Unit - Change color of Illidan to Green

 

[usfshihy]

Thank you very much Nichilus!

+REP!