Shield and Shields

[JeffreyQ]

3 basic questions here that i can't find it anywhere or miss it somehow.

1. How do i give normal units other than protoss a shield? For some reason, i can't name it.

2. How do i create a custom shield (Protoss type of shield)?

3. Marine Shield - How do i give them instantly? I tried removing the Use Marine Shield requirement but it still doesn't work.

 

[TGhostdk]

1. Under the unit in the data editor, there are fields Stats - Shield Maximum, Shield Regeneration Rate and Shield Starting Amount, look into those.

2. Uhm, well, under the Combat stats of your unit there is a field called Shield Armor Name, change that to whatever you like and modify the Shield Armor (it's under stats) and you got yourself a custom shield I suppose?

3. The actual effect of the shield comes from the upgrade, so you would have to create a behaviour that does this yourself (or research the upgrade through a trigger)

 

[JeffreyQ]

Thanks for the quick reply. For question 3, how do i create a behavior that adds hit points?

 

[Dr Super Good]

There are many ways, even triggers could be used as they allow you to adjust hitpoints and shield and energy maximums during game runtime.

For the shield, I would simply change its requirement so that it is always on.
If that fails, I would take a look to see why it might have failed, looking at what the actual research does.

 

[JeffreyQ]

Trigger works. But i would like to know a way do it in data editor. I can't seem to find the link between the marine's shield behavior and upgrade marine shield..

 

[Dr Super Good]

The link is a requirement. The requirement might even be attached directly to the button in the action options.

 

[JeffreyQ]

I tried a few things. Under requirement > Use Shield Wall, i remove the requirement, and all marines have shield!

Because i only want 1 custom marine to have shield, so i duplicate the Use Shield Wall and remove the requirement as my custom behavior uses the custom Use Shield Wall. But it doesn't work. Are those requirements hardcoded?