Unit Evolution

[Kunfury]

Im makeing a map and trying to get a trigger to work where this happens.

A Unit enters a region and when it does it is removed from the game and all of a certain unit (neutral Hostile) are replaced by a new stronger unit. Im useing a auto respawn trigger. Anybody know what to do?

 

[Mallaboro]

Have an Point array representing the location of every Neutral Hostile unit.

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit enters Region 000 <gen>
  • Conditions
    • ((Triggering unit) is A Hero) Equal to True
  • Actions
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units in (Playable map area) owned by Neutral Hostile) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • For each (Integer A) from 1 to (Number of units in (Units owned by Neutral Hostile)), do (Actions)
          • Loop - Actions
            • Set Neutral_HostileLocations[(Integer A)] = (Position of (Picked unit))
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units in (Playable map area) owned by Neutral Hostile) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Unit - Remove (Picked unit) from the game
    • For each (Integer A) from 1 to (Number of units in (Units owned by Neutral Hostile)), do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Unit - Create 1 Footman for Neutral Hostile at Neutral_HostileLocations[(Integer A)] facing Default building facing degrees

Your probably after something like that. It stores the location of every unit owned by Neutral Hostile, then places a footman at the location of that stored unit. Or does it? It might just not work; but it should hopefully give you an idea of what your after.

 

[Kunfury]

well i want one person to turn in someone and another into another
example
Footman--->knight
sludge flinger----->sludge monstrosity

 

[Nestharus]

I don't suggest you remove and replace. Just use Chaos.

Check in abilities and find Chaos. You can easily make a tech for this.

If you do it with your current method, the handle ids will change, which could screw up systems and etc... Chaos is just a much better method (less overhead, easier to use, and you don't even need to code anything as it can be a tech).

 

[Kunfury]

what?

 

[Nestharus]

what?

Look in abilities under Orc.

Oh yes, and don't worry about tons of custom objects. 8000 custom buffs is only 27 kb and the map loads nearly instantly.

 

[Kunfury]

ty that really helped

 

[ironman47]

Heres a unit evolution trigger that would replace all units of a certain type with stronger units. You could add as many unit types as you want

• Replace NH
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit enters region <gen>
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Unit-type of (Entering unit)) Equal to Footman
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units owned by Neutral Hostile of type Footman) and do (Actions)
          • Loop - Actions
            • Unit - Replace (Picked unit) with a Knight using The old unit's relative life and mana
      • Else - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • (Unit-type of (Entering unit)) Equal to Knight
          • Then - Actions
            • Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units owned by Neutral Hostile of type Knight) and do (Actions)
              • Loop - Actions
                • Unit - Replace (Picked unit) with a Doom Guard (Standard) using The old unit's relative life and mana
          • Else - Actions

 

[Nestharus]

Heres a unit evolution trigger that would replace all units of a certain type with stronger units. You could add as many unit types as you want

• Replace NH
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit enters region <gen>
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Unit-type of (Entering unit)) Equal to Footman
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units owned by Neutral Hostile of type Footman) and do (Actions)
          • Loop - Actions
            • Unit - Replace (Picked unit) with a Knight using The old unit's relative life and mana
      • Else - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • (Unit-type of (Entering unit)) Equal to Knight
          • Then - Actions
            • Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units owned by Neutral Hostile of type Knight) and do (Actions)
              • Loop - Actions
                • Unit - Replace (Picked unit) with a Doom Guard (Standard) using The old unit's relative life and mana
          • Else - Actions

sigh

I don't suggest you remove and replace. Just use Chaos.

Check in abilities and find Chaos. You can easily make a tech for this.

If you do it with your current method, the handle ids will change, which could screw up systems and etc... Chaos is just a much better method (less overhead, easier to use, and you don't even need to code anything as it can be a tech).

Replacing also screws with buffs, abilities, inventory, attached data... that's why Chaos is the only viable option >.>.

I'm making a SetUnitTypeId script that runs off of Chaos = ).