Copy a unit?

[Multiply]

Instead of spawning the same unit X times, is there a way I can simply copy an existing unit, and spawn it at X,Y location? Or in the center of a region.

 

[Momentai]

i'm not sure if you can actually copy the unit, but you could always copy the unit-type and then give it all of the current aspects of the first unit (hp, mp, items, levels). it'd be a little bit more hassle than actually straight up copying the unit, but then again i don't think that exists

 

[Multiply]

How would I copy health and armor type then? Also armor count, of course. Mana points is kinda useless. It's because I have a random unit selection, and you can see 10 levels into the future, in the bottom right corner, so when a new level is about to begin, it should copy the unit and spawn it.

I guess, copying info is kinda the same, so I could just make a fuction which spawns X units, of the same type, with the same stats

 

[Tukki]

Store the unit in a gamecache.

 

[Multiply]

Can you give me an example of how to do that?

 

[Tom Jones]

Can you give me an example of how to do that?

Yep:

globals
    gamecache COPY_GC = InitGameCache("CopyUnit.w3v")
endglobals

function CopyUnit takes unit whichunit, player forplayer, real x, real y returns unit
    call StoreUnit(COPY_GC,"Copies","u",whichunit)
    return RestoreUnit(COPY_GC,"Copies","u",forplayer,x,y,0)
endfunction

function CopyUnitLoc takes unit whichunit, player forplayer, location towhere returns unit
    return CopyUnit(whichunit,forplayer,GetLocationX(towhere),GetLocationY(towhere))
endfunction