Event detecting when a unit expires?

[Jackal]

In my map I have a building that after 5 minutes of being captured turns into another building by using mana as a sort of countdown timer. This has worked perfectly, until a new system I'm developing in my map requires the mana of the building to represent something else, so I have to find an alternative.

The most simple way I could think of as an alternative was attaching a unit expiration timer to this captured unit set for 300 seconds and then turning into another building when the expiration timer expires. It would be better than using a wait 300 seconds action because the expiration would stop if the building was captured by another player. However, no event that I know of detects when a unit expiration timer ends. Any ideas?

 

[meOme]

That would be... "a unit dies". x)
But I guess you can't use that...

Are you using the custom value of the building for something? Otherwise you could just use that instead of mana.

 

[Narks]

what is wrong with 'a unit dies'?

just put in the conditions if the unit was summoned

 

[Jackal]

what is wrong with 'a unit dies'?

just put in the conditions if the unit was summoned

So by this can I assume that units with an expiration timer are seen as "summons" by Warcraft III?

 

[Narks]

I didn't think of that


honestly best way is timer attachment (jass)


hai jackal

 

[Jackal]

honestly best way is timer attachment (jass)

I think you know that I have no idea what "timer attachment (jass)" is.

 

[Narks]

make struct (AIDS?)

attach struct to building

attach periodic timer to struct

make struct member a counter, periodic timer will increment counter every second

then make static trigger or just call a method to reset the counter whenever a structure is recaptured

if counter hits 300, you get hello dot jaepeg

 

[Jackal]

make struct (AIDS?)

attach struct to building

attach periodic timer to struct

make struct member a counter, periodic timer will increment counter every second

then make static trigger or just call a method to reset the counter whenever a structure is recaptured

if counter hits 300, you get hello dot jaepeg

That doesn't help either. I don't use JASS outside of copy-paste.