Minimap question

[mr po]

Is it possible to make a certain unit hidden under the fog to display its location in minimap?
Not like ping, but just normal unit display? Thanks

 

[DracoL1ch]

unit's vision radius should be 0
owner of unit may get vision throguth dummy with normal vision who will follow this unit
and you can use "share vision" command on this unit to get his dot on minimap

 

[The_Silent]

Alternatively, you can just reveal it for a very short time when it is constructed or when the map starts.

Or us the natural structure minimap icons.

 

[mr po]

thanks for the help, but i am purposely making a unit that has no vision. problem is when he is moving into the fog, player may find it hard to know its location

 

[Pyrogasm]

Sight range of 1 should work just fine for you then. Afaik there's no minimum nonzero sight range.

 

[DracoL1ch]

Sight range of 1 should work just fine for you then. Afaik there's no minimum nonzero sight range.

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[Pyrogasm]

I'm not sure what that's showing me. 0-63 will not reveal anything and 64-191 will reveal only 1 tile? Is the implication that there are classes of vision range?

 

[DracoL1ch]

its been explained years ago, yes

 

[Pyrogasm]

So why is sight range even a non-small-integer, and how does that interact with units being right on the edge of tiles? Why is the second vision range block so disjointed??

This produces more questions than answers, could you link a thread with more detail?

 

[DracoL1ch]

So why is sight range even a non-small-integer, and how does that interact with units being right on the edge of tiles? Why is the second vision range block so disjointed??

This produces more questions than answers, could you link a thread with more detail?

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