Consequences of being a Sapper

[The Arcot]

I need to make a trigger so that when a unit of a certain faction enters an area, he receives a speed bonus. However, The only way I know of to detect what race of unit it is, is to use classifications. Normally I would use ancient or undead, but those are taken for something else. The only other one I can see in the condition list that would work is sapper. My question is...

is there normally anything special about being classified as a sapper?

Alternately, is there a way to make auras used by neutral passive units affect player controlled units?

 

[Grymlax]

you can check what race a unit or a player is.

(Race of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Human

it's a race comparison

 

[The Arcot]

They're custom races, and there are like eight of them.

(also, woot 100th post)

 

[AceHart]

> is there normally anything special about being classified as a sapper?

Suicidal?
Yes, two at least:
- Transports refuse to load them.
- Some abilities can not be cast on them (Invisibility?).

 

[The Arcot]

damn... how about the second one? I'm thinking I could just make a dummy unit with an aura that only works on certain classifications, as there are more in object editor than there are for trigger comparisons.

 

[Romek]

> is there normally anything special about being classified as a sapper?

Suicidal?
Yes, two at least:
- Transports refuse to load them.
- Some abilities can not be cast on them (Invisibility?).

Beat me to it again

You could however, try setting the targets allowed for load and other spells to sapper. It'll probably work. Then there won't be a difference

 

[Grymlax]

are you using the units point-value for anything? othervise you could use that to refer back to the race of the unit. For exemple you give the humans 1 in point-value and the orcs 2 etc.

 

[The Arcot]

Ok, I have another question, its a bit simpler. I'm trying to make an aura that only affects undead units, but I can't seem to find the classification 'undead' under the 'targets allowed' field. Am I missing something? Or would I have to trigger that too?

 

[darkRae]

> Suicidal?
Yes, two at least:
- Transports refuse to load them.
- Some abilities can not be cast on them (Invisibility?).

Another one:
If the unit has Kaboom ability the unit will aggresively try to Kaboom at enemy units.

 

[The Arcot]

Na, it's nothing about that. I need a classification for a certain type of unit. Like... you know how most people use 'Ancient' if they want something to only affect certain units? It's like that, but I can't use ancient because thats taken for something else.

 

[Drunken_God]

there is a classification named tauren, isn't it?

 

[The Arcot]

yeah, but doesn't that make it say 'Tauren" under the unit?

Also, its for a spell (an aura, to be precise), so if it's possible I'd like to avoid any triggering for simplicity sake.