Changing from melee attack to ranged attack

[kenyi]

Is there ways to change a unit's attack type from melee to ranged whenever it carries an item??

 

[Duwenbasden]

You'll need a trigger that toggles between "Researched" and "Available" status for an upgrade that switches between "Attack 1" and "Attack 2"

 

[Heptameron]

Not in any way that could be considered remotely elegant or simple.'

You'll need a trigger that toggles between "Researched" and "Available" status for an upgrade that switches between "Attack 1" and "Attack 2"

Is there such an upgrade? And what would you do about dropping the item, since you can't unlearn a research?

 

[kenyi]

I think it doesnt work, i have tried. I cannot undo the research.

 

[Duwenbasden]

Try to do two monsters? 1 ranged 1 melee?

 

[kenyi]

Is there any way than making 2 monsters??

 

[guitarplay]

its actualy quite siple and ehres how u make a mele attack ranged. . .

there is something calld "aquisition range" which is like a seconds range, it cant limit the range to teh units attack. . . what u do is this, set it low to a mele attack range, and then have an ability called ranged, that basicaly
"change(es) aquizition range to 800 for casting unit"
and again a mele one that dose
"change(es) aquizition range to 100 for casting unit unit"
and make the regular range for the unit like 1600 if u want
the event is simply a unit casts ability
and the only condition is speel being cast is equal to (ranged, mele)

hope that makes things simpeler

 

[Duwenbasden]

That's an idea, but the melee attack won't have any of the melee sounds, which will sound kind of bad when attacking.

>Duwenbasden thats the creepiest looking picture ever i aint joking
Now feel the wrath of the Horde!

 

[Sargon]

its actualy quite siple and ehres how u make a mele attack ranged. . .

there is something calld "aquisition range" which is like a seconds range, it cant limit the range to teh units attack. . . what u do is this, set it low to a mele attack range, and then have an ability called ranged, that basicaly
"change(es) aquizition range to 800 for casting unit"
and again a mele one that dose
"change(es) aquizition range to 100 for casting unit unit"
and make the regular range for the unit like 1600 if u want
the event is simply a unit casts ability
and the only condition is speel being cast is equal to (ranged, mele)

hope that makes things simpeler

However, that means that the melee unit will not notice enemies on his own unless they're already within his attack range. Which is bad when his attack range is less than 100 (melee).

 

[guitarplay]

i dident think about that effecct. . . ive never actualy made the trigger sry ive just read a different post where thats wahat was said to di, maby there is a way to get around that wiht a trigger ??, like a unit come withing 1600 of any unit of unit type. . . u get the point, but i dont knoiw what the action would be sorry

 

[Heptameron]

Even if he shrinks the acquisition range, it will appear as if the unit was shooting the target.

 

[Korolen]

Mabee you could have the item use the "Barrage" ability? Simple, but (should be) effective

 

[Kuroikaze]

There's no way except having two units.

It's very easy, go into your object editor and right click the unit, hit "copy" then "paste" the newly pasted unit will be the one on the bottom. Add an editor suffix to help you remember this, change it's attackt ype to "Missile" and give it a missile model (like an arrow or something).

Then you just need a trigger that looks something like this.

Event - Unit picks up an item.
Condition - Unit equal to (your unit)
             - Item equal to (your item)
Action - Replace (your unit) with (new unit)

You might also want to make a trigger to catch the XP/Level/items of the old hero before replacing it. To do that, you'll need variables for each stat you want to store.