Checking if Player has Unit in Region?

[Aaronx]

Wow, it's good to be back. I started making this map back in '05, continued on and off in early '06, then quit, started up again briefly late '09, now here I am in '10 working again.

Anyway, I have a few questions:

First, I have an allied city, and they have a transport ship that will have a schedule ( once you activate it, through a quest ) going back and forth between two different locations. I'm sure I can figure out most of the triggers, but the one part I'm stuck on is, how do you have it check if you have a hero in the region while it's waiting? So if you get there right before it leaves, it still picks you up. This brings me to number

Two. I know I don't need the ship to actually pick up the different Heroes, so how should I go about making them disappear and appear at the other region?

I have a couple more questions, but I can't think of them at the moment.

Thanks in advance!!

 

[Shura]

Use the event Unit Enters Region for when the hero enters the region and use a condition to check if the boat is at the dock when the hero arrives.

For moving the hero's, you would just move them to a region on the map and change their owner so the player can't see the part of the map. Then move them back when the ship arrives. You would need to use something to keep track of which hero belongs to which player if there's more than one player, for example, setting their custom values to the player number. Also, you might want them to have a way to see the boat while it's transporting their hero.

 

[Aaronx]

How should I have it remember whose hero is who? I'm sure it's with Variables, but how exactly? It has to give anybody that takes the ship there hero back, move it to the other side, and unlock the camera for them.

 

[Shura]

Each unit has an individual custom value they can be assigned through triggers. As long as each player only has one hero, you could assign custom values based on the player number, and use that when you need to return them to their owner.

 

[Aaronx]

That sounds pretty damn handy, I could see this being used alot of places.

EDIT: I'm not seeing a 'Assign Player Index' or anything like that, where would it be?

Heres my Trigger:

Transport Ship
    Events
        Unit - A unit enters Ikani Transport Ship <gen>
    Conditions
        Or - Any (Conditions) are true
            Conditions
                ((Entering unit) is A Hero) Equal to True
                (Unit-type of (Entering unit)) Equal to Worker
    Actions
        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
            If - Conditions
                (Ikani Dock <gen> contains Ikanian Transport Ship 0568 <gen>) Equal to True
            Then - Actions
                Wait 0.10 seconds
                Set OwnerofHeroShip = (Owner of (Entering unit))
                Game - Display to (Player group((Owner of (Entering unit)))) for 7.00 seconds the text: |cff2635aaYou've bo...
                Unit - Change ownership of (Entering unit) to Neutral Passive and Retain color
                Unit - Move (Entering unit) instantly to (Random point in Transport Warp <gen>)
                Camera - Lock camera target for (Owner of (Entering unit)) to Ikanian Transport Ship 0568 <gen>, offset by (0.00, 0.00) using Default rotation
            Else - Actions
                Wait 0.20 seconds
                Game - Display to (Player group((Owner of (Entering unit)))) for 6.00 seconds the text: |cff2635aaThe Trans...

At least thats the first one, haven't started on the other one yet, need to know where to find player index.