[Trigger] Starting items

[NiceOne]

Hey!

I want a hero bought from a tavern to get a start item. How do I do this with triggers? Im not very good with triggers as you can imagine but the only thing I have manage to do is to give item to units trained. But that is not what I need...

Please show me how to do it by posting the trigger that gives an item to a hero who is bought from a tavern. Thanks!

 

[edo494]

shouldnt be that hard, hopefully you understand it:

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  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Sells a unit
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Selling unit)) Equal to Tavern
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Unit-type of (Sold unit)) Equal to Dark Ranger
      • Then - Actions
        • Hero - Create Mask of Death and give it to (Sold unit)
      • Else - Actions

you can either nest the ifs for efficiency, or just go down and down and down for readability

when you buy Dark ranger from the tavern, it will spawn with mask of death

 

[Greenwhy]

Trigger looks like it should work nicely for the OPs needs.

I believe that in this case the "selling unit" is the same unit as the "triggering unit". I have been told that "triggering unit" is a more efficient function and so should be used where possible.

eg:
for event "a unit dies" you could use triggering unit instead of dying unit.
for event "a unit is attacked" you could use triggering unit instead of attacked unit.

 

[deathismyfriend]

If you want to go for efficiency and readability ( efficiency is only increased if a lot of ITEs would be used)
Use a hashtable that saves data based on the unit type. That way you can load the item from that and give it to the unit very efficiently. It will also take a lot less coding than the ton of ITEs.

 

[NiceOne]

Thanks!

 

[edo494]

Trigger looks like it should work nicely for the OPs needs.

I believe that in this case the "selling unit" is the same unit as the "triggering unit". I have been told that "triggering unit" is a more efficient function and so should be used where possible.

eg:
for event "a unit dies" you could use triggering unit instead of dying unit.
for event "a unit is attacked" you could use triggering unit instead of attacked unit.

i know that, but well, it was 1 am and I didnt really feel like thinking anymore

this is not so optimized, but it is more explicit and gives better idea of what is done with who for new people that dont have so deep understanding of the way those callbacks work