Order Variable to issue an order

[Jaina Proudless]

Hello I want to give a unit an order from a variable but can't seem to find a GUI way to do it. I found a thread about this on the helper but it has 0 replies since 2009. I want to use this for replacing a trained unit with another type of unit and keeping the relevance of the building's rally point.

Any help will be appreciated.

 

[Wietlol]

Do you want to set the rally point? If so you can do it.

If not, then you have to use custom scripts.
You will find out that the actual order might have a very different order string than the gui interface gives as orders.

 

[Jaina Proudless]

Well as the rally point of the building, yes, the player will set the rally point of the building and no triggers should tamper with it. But how can I do it? Will it be using the replaced units exact order?

 

[Wietlol]

You can order the building to set it's rally point to <point>

 

[Jaina Proudless]

I think you have misunderstood. A unit is produced but I want there to be a 50% chance for another unit to spawn instead of the trained unit. Replacing the unit is no problem but keeping its original order from the building is. The rally point of the building initially has no affect on the new unit.

 

[Wietlol]

well... now it gets a bit more complicated.

You can get the rally point of the building and use that to order the replaced unit to move to that point... or you will have to use an order tracking system... which i think that does not yet exist

 

[Molaf]

I dont know if you can save the handle of the previous rally point somewhere .. was that the question?

 

[Wietlol]

"Set TempLocation = Rally-Point of (Training unit) as a point"

 

[Jaina Proudless]

Well alright then I thought there might be a way to do it. I will just have to order the unit attack-move to the rally point even though it's not perfect and does not take into account if the player wants the rally point to point to a friendly unit for following.

 

[Wietlol]

yea that is true.

 

[Wietlol]

It is a string... not an id or am i wrong?

Anyway there are multiple scripts for orders. Equal as there are multiple options in "Issue unit to ..."

 

[Jaina Proudless]

I don't know the difference between the two. In the GUI I can only find the options: Issue order targeting a unit, Issue order targeting a point, Issue order with no target.

 

[Wietlol]

???

Who the hell removed that post that was between my 2 posts???

Well next to the three you mentioned:
"Issue order targeting a unit"
"Issue order targeting a point"
"Issue order with not target"
There are also:
"Issue order targeting a destructable"
"Issue order targeting an item"
"Issue train upgrade order"
"Issue research order"
"Issue build order"
"Issue drop item order"
"Issue move item in inventory order"
"Issue give item order"

But most of them are the same action actually.

the function that you want is "call IssuePointOrder(unit whichUnit, string order, real x, real y)"
You can save the order as a string in a variable and load that variable in a custom script from that function.

 

[Skyflash]

i`ve removed my post because i found it irrelevant to Makoodzaka`s issue but well its an id because i used this custom script [GetIssuedOrderId() ]to get the id and store it to a integer variable

 

[Wietlol]

set string = OrderId2String(GetIssuedOrderId())