[Trigger] Player 1 Problem

[pred1980]

hi hivers,

what could be the reason for the following problem?

I create a lot of units for player "bj_PLAYER_NEUTRAL_EXTRA" and every time a unit dies the Player 0 (red) is the Killer.

For example:

I create a unit for player "bj_PLAYER_NEUTRAL_EXTRA" and i give the unit a life time for 10s. After this 10s the unit die and player 0 is the killer - What could be the reason for this behavior?

Best Reg

 

[Light]

i'm pretty sure it's the game using a dummy player slot to "kill" the expired unit. there's not supposed to be a killer anyway if the unit expires.

 

[PurgeandFire]

What are you using to get the killing player? (and which event?) Keep in mind a lot of things default to 0, that is just the nature of programming languages. So it might not mean player 1 was the killer, it may just be default behavior to return 0.

 

[fireblasts]

we could help more if you post the trigger by doing [trigger=triggerneedhelpon]then right click the header of the trigger *the spot were you named it* copy as text then pasta[/ trigger]

then with out a space by the /

 

[Dr Super Good]

I suspect it defaults to returning Player(0) because many of the natives crash if passed a null player.

There should be no "killing" unit in response to the event (return null). Getting the owner of null returns Player(0) as a safety. TriggeringPlayer likely also returns Player(0) because it is probably not defined in response to that event.

To test for suicides check the killing unit. Suicides will either have a null killing unit or the killing unit will be the same as the dying unit.

 

[Ceday]

I assume the problem is you are trying to get killing player's number, which returns 0, because if there was a serious problem like in post2 it should have been known.

You have to check if the killing unit is null or not, as written in above post.

 

[pred1980]

You have to check if the killing unit is null or not, as written in above post.

That's what i did. The killing unit is null. I just put an

if (killingUnit != null) then

around and all is good.