[General] Unit Attack AI

[Nestharus]

Is there a way to enable/disable unit attacks while keeping the combat AI on the unit enabled so that they follow enemies, acquire targets, and so on w/o attacking until the attack is enabled?

can't think of a way

If anyone has any ideas other than full custom with custom projectiles, lemme know =)

 

[Ceday]

?

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Is attacked
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Order (Attacking unit) to Stop

 

[Nestharus]

Please don't respond with GUI : ), I won't look at it, so ur just wasting ur time with that

Gave +rep for trying to help tho =), even if the post only had "?" ^)^


Still looking for a solution. I'm going to note that giving 0 attack cooldown and ordering a unit to stop while attacking is the exact opposite of what I wanted, lol. The whole point here is to not have them fire off tons of events.

Did that in this old lib here http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/submissions-414/system-unit-attack-213779/

        private static method onInit takes nothing returns nothing
            local integer i = 15
            local trigger t = CreateTrigger()
            
            call TriggerAddCondition(t, Condition(function thistype.attack))
            call TriggerAddCondition(resetTrigger, Condition(function thistype.reset))
            
            set table = Table.create()
            
            loop
                call TriggerRegisterPlayerUnitEvent(t, Player(i), EVENT_PLAYER_UNIT_ATTACKED, null)
                call TriggerRegisterPlayerUnitEvent(resetTrigger, Player(i), EVENT_PLAYER_UNIT_ISSUED_ORDER, null)
                call TriggerRegisterPlayerUnitEvent(resetTrigger, Player(i), EVENT_PLAYER_UNIT_ISSUED_TARGET_ORDER, null)
                call TriggerRegisterPlayerUnitEvent(resetTrigger, Player(i), EVENT_PLAYER_UNIT_ISSUED_POINT_ORDER, null)
                exitwhen 0 == i
                set i = i - 1
            endloop
            
            set t = null
        endmethod

So if anyone's thinking that spamming attacks is the solution to disabling attacks, that's actually the opposite. I don't want attacks to fire, I want them disabled, not spammed ^)^.

Is there a way to enable/disable unit attacks while keeping the combat AI on the unit enabled so that they follow enemies, acquire targets, and so on w/o attacking until the attack is enabled?

 

[Ceday]

You just said you need to stop unit from actually attacking without disabling combat AI, all I said is stop attacking unit when it begins its attack animation.You don't need to change its attack cooldown or something like that.

 

[Nestharus]

no, I said

enable/disable

=)

Enable should make them instantly attack, not attack x seconds later.

 

[Almia]

Enable/Disable Attacks?
Have you tried Drunken Haze with 100 miss chance? and removing its buff?

Btw,idk what you meant there.

 

[Nestharus]

Chance to miss still wouldn't work. I don't want the unit to be attacking at all. When I enable the attack, I want it to start attacking again, so it should be instantly ready.

Think of it like this. Let's say that I give it 1000000000000 cooldown so that it never attacks, then when I want it to attack, I lower the cooldown to 0 and then raise it back up to 1000000000000. That is what I want.

 

[Almia]

Because we already have decided to use Custom Projectile,this is solved now?

 

[Nestharus]

Huh? I don't want to use custom projectiles, no.