Using Abilities to Set Unit Custom Values

[Dangime]

I am trying to use abilities to set the custom value of a medivac. Basically, depending on what ability you use, the medivac fills with different kinds of units. I used the stimpack ability since its an instant.

The first one I assign works perfectly. If I try to make a 2nd ability based on stim pack, and assign a trigger to detect it and set the custom value to 2 to make a medivac full of reapers instead, both stop working.

I have a feeling that the trigger "Unit uses an ability" is only looking broadly at the stimpack ability and not the narrower "Fill with Marines" ability I made from it. How can I get the trigger to look at the sub abilities?

 

[Wezthal]

Is it necessary to use abilities? I haven't tested this yet but, couldn't you just use buttons, add them to the command card and then detect the certain button pushes?

 

[Dangime]

I could, but the editor has a little subtext in it when you select the trigger and for the event "When a button is pushed" it says, Don't use this unless you *have* to because every time a button is pushed anywhere it creates network traffic. Which I guess means strain on the game.

 

[tagg1080]

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Unit - Any Unit uses Medivac - SpawnUnits at Generic1 - Any stage (Ignore shared abilities)
  • Conditions
    • (Ability command for (Triggering order)) == Marine
  • Actions

Where:
Ability = SpawnUnits
AbilityCommand = Marine

So:

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Unit - Any Unit uses Medivac - SpawnUnits at Generic1 - Any stage (Ignore shared abilities)
  • Conditions
    • (Ability command for (Triggering order)) == Reaper
  • Actions

would be the other one..

 

[Dangime]

I probably need to choose a more suitable skill to base this command on.

How do I get a new ability command anyway?

I made quite a few differ abilities based on stimpack, but all the ability commands came out as "Use stimpack" which is probably the reason why it works fine with just 1, but goes to heck when more than 1 is setup.

 

[mrzwach]

right click on the list of abilities, click add object or create object or something. Copy pasting abilities might mess up the ability commands, dunno.

 

[tagg1080]

I probably need to choose a more suitable skill to base this command on.

How do I get a new ability command anyway?

I made quite a few differ abilities based on stimpack, but all the ability commands came out as "Use stimpack" which is probably the reason why it works fine with just 1, but goes to heck when more than 1 is setup.

I don't think you can add new ability commands right now, but there is a way to check the ability command, so there might be in a few versions.