"Pilot ability"

[HelloFlighty]

I'm just wondering if there is a way to make it so that a unit cannot move unless it is carrying another unit, an example being say zeppelins couldn't move unless they had at least 1 unit in them to act as the "pilot"

 

[DaneTheBeast]

Isn't there an event for when a unit it loaded into transport? Maybe you could use that and just set the zeppelins movement speed to 0.
Edit: I meant more than 0

 

[MasterBlaster]

Actually, I think that in GUI this is somewhat tricky.

There is an event that uses units being loaded into a transport, so you can easily just set the movement speed of the unit to 0 in the object editor and return it to the normal value once a unit is loaded.

The problem is having it go back to 0 when it unloads all units as I can't remember an event that would fire off of a unit being unloaded.

The best idea I to circumvent this is to do something like this:

• Melee Initialization
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting a point
  • Conditions
    • ((Triggering unit) is in MobileTransports) Equal to True
    • (Issued order) Equal to (Order(move))
  • Actions
    • Set TransportedUnits = (Units owned by (Owner of (Triggering unit)) matching (((Matching unit) is loaded into (Triggering unit)) Equal to True))
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Number of units in TransportedUnits) Greater than 0
      • Then - Actions
        • -------- do nothing --------
      • Else - Actions
        • Unit - Set (Triggering unit) movement speed to 0.00
        • Unit Group - Remove (Triggering unit) from MobileTransports
        • Unit - Order (Triggering unit) to Stop
    • Custom script: call DestroyGroup(udg_TransportedUnits)

Whenever you increase a transport movement speed to normal, you add it to "mobile transports" unit group. Once a unit from that group is issued an order to move, it will check if it has any units loaded inside. If not, then it will be ordered to stop and its movement speed will be reduced to 0.

 

[Kyrbi0]

I've done some testing with Load/Unload, and I believe there are ways to catch the Load, Unload, & Unload All abilities; however I couldn't seem to catch the player simply right-clicking on a unit to unload it. I don't recall how I got around this... Might be able to check when I get home.

 

[KILLCIDE]

Have you considered using GUI Unit Event v2.4.0.0? It has Load/Unload events and even allows you to access the units that are loaded via unit group.

 

[HelloFlighty]

Thank you for all the help everyone I'm somewhat biased towards GUI so your responses were very helpful