Possible to find the player who gives an order

[doom_sheep]

I have a unit with shared control to several players. Is there some way to find out which one gives it an order?

 

[BPower]

Moved to a more fitting forum section.
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[Warseeker]

I'm not sure I understand you correct but if this is what you looking for, here :
Events - A unit receive an order to...
Condition - Owner of triggering unit equal to "your player"
Or use player intergers.

 

[doom_sheep]

the player doesn't own the unit. he just has control.

 

[Warseeker]

Yes still.

 

[doom_sheep]

whaaaaat

no, there's no way it'd work like that. that'll return the actual owner of the unit.

 

[Lightskin]

simply use "triggering player"

• Some Trigger
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting a point
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set Player = (triggering player)

 

[Warseeker]

Then I believe that unit changes player ownership on every order gaved?

 

[doom_sheep]

simply use "triggering player"

• Some Trigger
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting a point
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set Player = (triggering player)

I tried that and it seems to return the owner of the ordered unit. no good.

 

[Bribe]

A few methods:

First, but it isn't reliable, but you can check who has selected the ordered unit.

Second: using Sharpcraft, you can get the mouse X/Y and can approximate which player issued the order based on checking the order-target point with the mouse X/Y.

Third, using Trackables and blanketing any target point of an issued order so you can check which player clicked on that patch of land.

Regardless, all methods have massive drawbacks. Are you trying to purchase an item using a shared unit or something?

 

[doom_sheep]

ended up doing it with a workaround

 

[IcemanBo]

What is the workaround?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Ironically this feature is in StarCraft II and has broken dozens of maps because people thought that "Triggering Player" worked like in Warcraft III and returned the owning player. In StarCraft II it quite literally returns the player who triggered the event (player who learned a skill, player who ordered a unit, player who started training etc), resulting in hilarious bugs where stuff gets applied to players it is not intended to.

In WC3 there is no such way to detect this as far as I know.