[Trigger] Set rally point

[paskovich]

Does the SetRally-point to point action work for anybody? Cause it does not for me...

Even if i use the jass function
IssuePointOrder(unit, "setrally", x, y)
it does not work.

Why?
Is it sthg like the set unit's aquistision range (or what)?

 

[VampireHeart]

maby the wrong event?

this kinda happens when i make the spell i used to long of range. Its a blink based that transformed to caster to a bat and then back to caster when reaching the targeted point. The unit caster transforms into gos awall and walks away from the point.

Maby to long of range?

 

[paskovich]

No, no you misunderstood me... I mean a building's rally point (you lcick on a building that trains units, then right-click somewhere, a flag will appear as a rally-point for the trained units). It can be place anywhere on the map, so it's not range.
Set Rally point to point / unit / destructible are the three actions, but none of them seems to set the rally point.

 

[V_V_V]

thats strange...well i just tested this for you myself. i simply made a trigger firing on the
event: player 1 types -rally point as exact match
actions: order town hall to set rally point to position of blood mage

works perfectly fine! and i tried both in gui n jass (using IssuePointOrder).
perhaps test in a fresh map with a simple event? cant really imagine anything that would cause this... It does work though. for sure.

 

[Dalaran_Guard]

Ya, works for me, too. Keep in mind that buildings that are upgrading (i.e. town hall --> keep) cannot set rally points, or at least not by triggers. Other than that, I don't know what could be wrong... What event are you using?

 

[paskovich]

Well, it's in jass, but the main point is that, i want the players to be able to set the rally-point only at a given region.
The trigger looks like:

Event - <Unit> is issued a point / target order
Cond - Order == setrally blah...
Action
//Now every action runs, instead of
call IssuePointOrder(u, "setrally", x,y)

The rally-point stays where it was set by the player, but it shouldn't be!
I'm not gonna paste the whole trigger, cause this is the only line i have problems with. And also jass is not allowed here...

Guys, could you please check this trigger if it works! With these events/conditions.

 

[V_V_V]

ah i see the problem. Your event fires prior to carrying out the action of the issued order, so your forced order is being replaced by the original issued order that fired the trigger when it continues to be carried out afterwards (hope im not being too confusing here?). Put a wait before issuing order and it clears up. tested this, n it works!

However, i ran into another problem... the condition order == setrally does not work for some reason (i really dont see why not... =S its perfectly normal). Would a compromise of current unit order id work? (or would it just encounter problem #1 from above? my guess is that it would =/ ive only used current unit order id with "starts the effect of an ability" condition)
so yea, ran into 2 problems from testing. hope that helps!

 

[paskovich]

Oh, yeah, put a wait, or my other idea was to pause/stop/unpause the building, and then oreder it to "setrally".

Btw, i use the
GetUnitCurrentOrder() == 810752 (kinda number, you know)
condition, so i don't have problems with it..

Thx for helping!

EDIT
Ok, the pause/stop/unpause strcture solved my proble. It seems the order of the evets looks like this:
1. Building is ordered to place the rally-point
2. The whole trigger runs
3. The rally point is placed
Hell complicated