Upgrading unit into another unit.

[Rugarus]

So I set my unit as a building to do that upgrade "hack"

My unit upgrades into another unit. My 2nd unit has it's RGB 25, 25, 255 which makes him look blue. But when I upgrade my first unit into the 2nd unit the color doesn't change. Any idea how I can fix this?

 

[Abyssion]

Not sure what you mean by upgrade hack, but if the color didn't change, that means the unit didn't change. Did you
make sure the unit actually has the upgrade ability?

 

[Rugarus]

Not sure what you mean by upgrade hack, but if the color didn't change, that means the unit didn't change. Did you
make sure the unit actually has the upgrade ability?

If you make a unit a building, and then add another unit in the upgrades to. Then change the unit from a building back to a unit it will allow you to upgrade the unit into another unit.

And i know it's a new unit because I attached a special effect to an ability that the new unit possesss. I can see the effect which is a frost look. But the unit Doesn't change colour.

 

[Abyssion]

?? Why are you doing it using buildings? Just make an upgrade and ability based off of the troll berserker upgrade/ability.

 

[Rugarus]

Well these new units cost gold to upgrade into. And also it allows them to be greyed out until a hero is X level which my game requires.

 

[Abyssion]

hmm if your map is small do you think you can upload it that I may take a look?

 

[Rugarus]

hmm if your map is small do you think you can upload it that I may take a look?

It's a big map. I'll repro it in another map tomorrow and post it here. Thanks.

 

[Abyssion]

Alrighty then.

 

[Rugarus]

Sorry for the delay, completely forgot about this post. Type -e in game for money command. Upgrade infernal into ranged, then into frost infernal. Then compare the two. The one premade in the game has a blue tint while the other doesn't even though it's the same model.

 

[Abyssion]

Maybe I'm missing something, but how are these units upgrading? I see no custom abilities, and they
are not structures so they don't have the upgrades to field, or custom triggers, so how did you do it?
I tested a regular building upgrading and it changes color as it should. So it seems that your "hack" may be causing the problem.
Tell me how do you do this "hack"?

 

[pick-a-chew]

are not structures so they don't have the upgrades to field, or custom triggers, so how did you do it?

Just because the upgrade field cannot be seen does not mean it is not there. All data fields are present for a unit, but the vanilla editor only shows you the appropriate fields for that unit-type (that is: units, buildings and heroes). His trick is simply to convert a unit to a building, set its upgrade, and then set it back to a regular unit. A lot of external WE mods allow you to force-edit all possible fields for a unit (e.g. add hero abilities to a unit, convert a building directly to a hero and so forth, give a building strength gain hero per level). It is hardly surprising if a unit has a unexpected value for a user-disabled field turns out buggy.

 

[Rugarus]

Maybe I'm missing something, but how are these units upgrading? I see no custom abilities, and they
are not structures so they don't have the upgrades to field, or custom triggers, so how did you do it?
I tested a regular building upgrading and it changes color as it should. So it seems that your "hack" may be causing the problem.
Tell me how do you do this "hack"?

Change is a building to true then add your next unit to upgrades too. Then change is a building back to false. It will keep the upgrade.

 

[Rugarus]

Ok is there a way to get this tint via trigger or do I need to do this some other way?

 

[millzy]

u can set the colouring tint with triggers

• Animation - Change No unit's vertex coloring to (100.00%, 100.00%, 100.00%) with 0.00% transparency

although u cant detect what the current tinting is unless u use some kind of system to keep track of it setting the current values into variables

 

[Daffa]

Why not modify the model files?

 

[millzy]

well that would be increasing the map size for just some tinting that can be done though triggers?

 

[Abyssion]

Here is a way to handle it with a simple trigger, it just replaces the bugged newly upgraded model with the correct model.

• Infernal Upgrades
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Finishes an upgrade
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • If ((Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Ranged Infernal) then do (Unit - Replace (Triggering unit) with a Ranged Infernal using The old unit's relative life and mana) else do (Do nothing)
    • If ((Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Frost Infernal) then do (Unit - Replace (Triggering unit) with a Frost Infernal using The old unit's relative life and mana) else do (Do nothing)

Alternatively you could handle the bug like @millzy stated.

• Infernal Upgrades millzy Style
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Finishes an upgrade
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • If ((Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Ranged Infernal) then do (Animation - Change (Triggering unit)'s vertex coloring to (20.00%, 80.00%, 100.00%) with 0.00% transparency) else do (Do nothing)
    • If ((Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Frost Infernal) then do (Animation - Change (Triggering unit)'s vertex coloring to (10.00%, 10.00%, 100.00%) with 0.00% transparency) else do (Do nothing)

The @millzy way may be better as your units wont be deselected when they upgrade into the newer unit.
But there it is, 2 ways to solve the issue.

 

[Rugarus]

Exellent thanks!