Morph ability

[Hazop]

I set a morph ability for my factory, but it refuses to work properly!

Solution 1. I set the duration to .5 seconds, when I morph it immediately morphs back.

Solution 2. I set the duration to 0 seconds, it works and I can switch/train units from both. Issue is that the birth animation starts playing on loop, I make triggers to fix this and it dosent work(triggers only work for "Solution 1").

How do I fix this???

 

[UreDe4D]

is your factory a building? do you need the morph animation? you could just use an upgrade to switch

 

[Hazop]

is your factory a building? do you need the morph animation? you could just use an upgrade to switch

If I use upgrade, then the cost to build the factory in the 1st place would be nothing.. and no one likes a factory spammer who can use them to build walls and spawn endless hordes of tanks..

 

[doom_sheep]

theres selection issues with it but you could just replace the building when a dummy ability is used

 

[Hazop]

theres selection issues with it but you could just replace the building when a dummy ability is used

Wouldint the building shift? and move slight left or right?
Or would it just directly replace it?

 

[doom_sheep]

I don't see why it would move

 

[UreDe4D]

If I use upgrade, then the cost to build the factory in the 1st place would be nothing.. and no one likes a factory spammer who can use them to build walls and spawn endless hordes of tanks..

well that depends. If all "upgrades" cost the same you can toggle them by using relative upgrade costs (can be changed in gameplay constants). then building it will still cost the same, but morphing doesn't.

This of course also changes the amount for other upgrades, so if you are already very far in your map this may be a lot of work to change.

 

[Hazop]

I don't see why it would move

It works! Thank you!

 

[doom_sheep]

well that depends. If all "upgrades" cost the same you can toggle them by using relative upgrade costs (can be changed in gameplay constants). then building it will still cost the same, but morphing doesn't.

holy fuck I never knew about this. it's actually so convenient for something I'm working on myself.

 

[Hazop]

well that depends. If all "upgrades" cost the same you can toggle them by using relative upgrade costs (can be changed in gameplay constants). then building it will still cost the same, but morphing doesn't.

This of course also changes the amount for other upgrades, so if you are already very far in your map this may be a lot of work to change.

Very viable option for when you're starting a map, I've done a lot of work in mine and I don't have the time, nor do I want to have to change everything...
Thanks the help none the less!

 

[Pyrogasm]

I believe replacing the unit will remove it from any hotkey groupings it was a part of. Just something to consider. You can also definitely morph passively with the bear form trick I posted in your other thread if you use a dummy ability the building can cast instead of an ability based on Bear Form.

 

[doom_sheep]

if you look at the BJ you will find replacing literally deletes the unit and creates a new one. all references are pretty much lost.