GetBuyingPlayer()

[Amn]

hi, if i have my hero shared and someone else buys an item with him -like a potion-, how do i know who bought it ?


on event EVENT_PLAYER_UNIT_SELL_ITEM i get this values

GetItemPlayer( GetSoldItem() ) returns the shop's owner
GetTriggerPlayer() returns shop's owner too
GetBuyingUnit() returns my hero
GetTriggerUnit() returns shop

i tried several others natives but they all return null
any ideas ?
thank u

 

[luorax]

You can't retrieve who ordered any of your units to do anything.

 

[Frozenhelfir]

The real only way I'd know to do this is to have a shop for each player underneath a generic shop. Select the player shop when the generic shop is selected. This way you can tell who buys what because each player can only use their specific shop.

 

[KaerfNomekop]

You could make it so that only one player can select the unit at a time, so whoever selected the unit last is the one who bought the item.

 

[Frozenhelfir]

You could make it so that only one player can select the unit at a time, so whoever selected the unit last is the one who bought the item.

This would be the easiest way to code it, but it would be a major annoyance in game and prevent people from wanting to play your map. Fighting over shops is annoying. Sometimes you'll get that guy who camps the shops and makes it a pain for anyone else to use them if the guy is "out" of the game. I'd suggest doing it the "right" way instead of the quick way purely for playability.

 

[Amn]

The real only way I'd know to do this is to have a shop for each player underneath a generic shop. Select the player shop when the generic shop is selected. This way you can tell who buys what because each player can only use their specific shop.

I tried already using dummy shops dynamically created for the buying player when he opens the shop but new shops have a annoying delay to start selling items. (disabled items saying 'requires nearby patron')

I can detect who's trying to shop cause i have a 'main shop' on my map that sells dummy units named 'combative', 'supportive', etc. The owner of the sold unit is the actual buying player.

When a 'combative' unit is sold i select another invisible/untargetable shop for the player that sells combative items. (Simulates a panel)
This works great, is fast and effective. But when this shops sell an item i can't obtain its owner like i do with sold units.
Yes, i could replace the items with units but there's around 120 so far. And is gonna mess up another systems.


If i were to use preplaced shops for every player i'd have to create, per shops locations, 1 main shop plus 11 categories multiplied number of players = 1 + 11 * 10 = 120 shops.

 

[luorax]

Well, you can use dummy abilities and place everything in spell books, like I did on my map. Maximum 10 shop units, and they do more than selling items.

 

[Amn]

solved. players have a private courier and can't share units.