Removing locust

[Koblin]

How can I remove the locust ability from a unit?
I tried

call UnitRemoveAbility( Unit , 'Aloc' )

, but it doesn't work!

 

[dansaDisco]

Actually, I believe locust is one of the abilities that can't ever be removed.

Once a unit has it, it will always have it.

 

[Starquizer]

How can I remove the locust ability from a unit?
I tried

call UnitRemoveAbility( Unit , 'Aloc' )

, but it doesn't work!

I think once a unit has the locust ability you can no longer refer to it normally, you need to save it into a variable before adding this ability and to remove it refer to the variable. But I am not sure about this; its something I was told long ago.

 

[Koblin]

Actually, I believe locust is one of the abilities that can't ever be removed.

Once a unit has it, it will always have it.

Is there anything else I can use, that has a similar effect?

 

[Koblin]

I think once a unit has the locust ability you can no longer refer to it normally, you need to save it into a variable before adding this ability and to remove it refer to the variable. But I am not sure about this; its something I was told long ago.

That's what I am doing. I got the unit stored in a global array. Then I set a local variable like this:

local unit c = udg_Array[s]

then I do UnitAddAbility and later UnitRemoveAbility.

 

[GhostWolf]

Might help.

Although if you can't remove the ability even if you have a pointer to the unit...no idea.

 

[dansaDisco]

Is there anything else I can use, that has a similar effect?

As I said, I'm not really sure, but I think I've read it somewhere <_<

Sorry for not being able to help though

 

[Koblin]

Might help.

Although if you can't remove the ability even if you have a pointer to the unit...no idea.

Have you tried it? Does it work?

 

[Koblin]

The reason I used locust to begin with was that I had two identical units(heroes). One of them needs to disappear for a while, and I thought the easyest thing would be to use the benefits from locust and making it invisible.
But is there anything else I can do instead?

 

[dansaDisco]

The reason I used locust to begin with was that I had two identical units(heroes). One of them needs to disappear for a while, and I thought the easyest thing would be to use the benefits from locust and making it invisible.
But is there anything else I can do instead?

isn't there a action called
Unit - Hide unit
or something?

 

[GhostWolf]

Move him outside of the map...?

 

[Koblin]

Move him outside of the map...?

I was going to do that if you didn't come with a solution

 

[Starquizer]

The reason I used locust to begin with was that I had two identical units(heroes). One of them needs to disappear for a while, and I thought the easyest thing would be to use the benefits from locust and making it invisible.
But is there anything else I can do instead?

Try

• Unit - Hide YourHero

 

[Koblin]

isn't there a action called
Unit - Hide unit
or something?

There is. The tooltip says it makes it not include in "Unit Group - Pick Every Unit..." actions. But what else does it do?

 

[GhostWolf]

Try

• Unit - Hide YourHero

If someone can see invisible units, it won't be nice.

call SetUnitX(unit,100000)
call SetUnitY(unit,100000)

And you are done.

 

[Koblin]

Thanks for the support. I'm done asking for now