[AI] Replacing preplaced units

[Mechanical Man]

How to prevent the AI to replace preplaced units? I mean after they get killed/removed, they train them again(thats ok), but then they bring them to the exact spots where they were before. I made a cinematic before the mission starts and now they try to bring units to those odd spots. How to solve this?

 

[Dynasti]

• event
  • Whenever you Want
• Conditions
  • Whatever the Cost
  • Unit Group - Pick every unit(ownedbyplayer(player_2) and actions
    • order unit to stop

 

[Mechanical Man]

Well, I want to make this without triggers, is a campaign and I don't want to mess with unecessary triggers. And if would be it constantly stopping, it won't be participating in the attack, I just want the unit to have its position in the base (is something that it has to do with behaviour, dunno).

 

[Crusad3r91]

Well, actually there's a trigger:

• No replacing
  • AI - Ignore the guard positions of all (player) units

"This action tells the AI for the given player to neither use nor replace any of his preplaced units. This has no effects on Heroes and peon-type units."
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If you need only certain units not to be replaced there's the other trigger:

• No replacing
  • AI - Ignore (unit)'s guard position

This of course requires a trigger but that's the only way to do it that I know.

 

[Maximilianx]

make a seperate player for the cinematic sequence units?
just change the color of the player*.. use a player that wont be on the map

 

[Mechanical Man]

But I want those preplaced units to be used as they would be trained.

And now this fucking worthless pile of shit is letting only to make two waves although I defined 4 >.< Wtf is wrong? Why then blizzard release tools that don't work properly -.-

 

[howl2000]

Can't you just set a command at the end of the cinematic triggers that tell it to start the ai script.

I've never done an ai script using the script maker, but I would assume thats what that action is for.

 

[Mechanical Man]

I start the AI script after the cinematic is finished, it seems that it doesn't matter when it is started :/

 

[Crusad3r91]

Well, there's another trigger...

• No replacing
  • AI - Recycle (Unit)'s guard position

I've never used this trigger so I'm not sure that this will work... the hint says:

This action requests that the AI recycle the guard position that once belonged to the specified unit.

Does it mean that the unit will be used again but without going to the guard position (meaning that it has been "recycled" for the attack) or does it mean that the guard position will be taken by another unit?

 

[Mechanical Man]

Yes, now I'm using ignore guard position, but I thought I could do also without it.