Rawcodes with capital letters for units

[sethmachine]

Hi,

So it appears that all hero units' rawcodes begins with a capital letter.

And it is also true that all non-hero units' rawcodes always begin with a lower case letter.

Furthermore, if an object is created and given an arbitrary rawcode where the first letter is capitalized, it automatically gets cast into a hero.

I am suspecting this is a hardcoded property in the units objects (capital letters don't seem to matter for any other object AFAIK). Is there anyway to disable it?

Edit: So apparently if you create an object based on a hero, but make the first letter of the new rawcode lower case, it gets cast to a non-hero >_<

Is there anyway around this, i.e. using a lower case letter starting a rawcode for both heroes and non-heroes?

 

[Xonok]

Seems to be entirely hardcoded. Why do you want to change this?

 

[Zeatherann]

How Interesting, Should it Work

So, if I create a unit with an object id of'Abob'and base it off of'hfoo'then it'll become a hero unit that has attributes, experience, levels, etc? Likewise; if I have a unit with object id of'abob'based off of'Hpal'then it won't be a hero and won't have attributes, experience, levels, etc?

 

[Ceday]

So, if I create a unit with an object id of'Abob'and base it off of'hfoo'then it'll become a hero unit that has attributes, experience, levels, etc? Likewise; if I have a unit with object id of'abob'based off of'Hpal'then it won't be a hero and won't have attributes, experience, levels, etc?

I can confirm first one, but not second one.Probably it is correct too.

 

[edo494]

the first one is for sure true, it actually makes it easier to create footman-like looking hero if you change his rawcode to capital letter, because you have all the values defaulted and you get the additional fields.

Its hardcoded, hence not changable.

 

[Dr Super Good]

You can call units whatever you want. '@@@@' is an entirely valid raw code. JNGP allows you to do this, a feature hidden in standard WE.

 

[edo494]

please, read again, and do some testing before posting.

What you said is only relevant to topic because it is rawcode. This is whats the matter:

Furthermore, if an object is created and given an arbitrary rawcode where the first letter is capitalized, it automatically gets cast into a hero.

your rawcode is fully irrelevant to this thread

 

[Dr Super Good]

Raw codes are actually 32 bit integers where each of the 4 characters is a 8 bit ASCII character. They can be almost any character although there will likely be difficulties with control characters (not sure if you can represent them in a parser friendly way for JASS scripts).

 

[sethmachine]

So, if I create a unit with an object id of'Abob'and base it off of'hfoo'then it'll become a hero unit that has attributes, experience, levels, etc? Likewise; if I have a unit with object id of'abob'based off of'Hpal'then it won't be a hero and won't have attributes, experience, levels, etc?

Yes on both accounts (unfortunately). I tested the second case myself, as written in the OP

I made a custom object from Human Paladin ('Hpal') and made its rawcode 'h000.' It became a normal unit, and not a hero.

if you create an object based on a hero, but make the first letter of the new rawcode lower case, it gets cast to a non-hero >_<

I am curious though, what about non-alphabetic characters beginning a rawcode? I expect it wouldn't do any "casting," from non-hero to hero or hero to non-hero.

 

[Zeatherann]

This is quite cool. On a slightly related note: Don't give your objects any of the special object ids such as'HERO'.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Don't give your objects any of the special object ids such as 'HERO' .

What happened?

 

[Zeatherann]

It can cause issues because the engine looks for these special object ids for tech requirements.'HERO'happens to be the one for 'Any Hero', it also makes the object's name display as 'Any Hero' instead of any value in the name field of the object.

 

[Xonok]

It can cause issues because the engine looks for these special object ids for tech requirements.'HERO'happens to be the one for 'Any Hero', it also makes the object's name display as 'Any Hero' instead of any value in the name field of the object.

That is actually quite useful for other purposes.

 

[Zeatherann]

Like what uses?

 

[Xonok]

I never realized that things like "Any hero" could be actual units, despite making a tutorial that mimics this.
I have to admit that I haven't seen any groundbreaking possibilities with this, but it's still wonderful.

 

[Dr Super Good]

It would be side splittingly funny to make an LoaP or something where a unit is "Any Hero". Sad no one ever did.