Make it impossible to give orders

[Sirroelivan]

Is there a way to prevent the player from giving his units direct orders.

I want to make some kind of regiment system in which you have squads of units, led by a sergeant, and all orders, including abilities like defend,... are given via the sergeant.

I already tried giving the units ward, but then you can still rightclick for orders.

Is there a way to do this?

Offtopic: How many post do you have to have to change the text under your avatar?

 

[chthekiller]

Try making the squad of units controled by the ai. This way the player cant control them, and u can use triggers to issue orders.

 

[Sirroelivan]

Yea, I already tought of that, but I'd prefer the unit to be owned by who actually owns them

 

[chthekiller]

Try making a trigger that cancels the players orders, but when you use an ability from the commander, disable that trigger before giving that order in that trigger, then enable it again.

 

[Doom-Angel]

why not simply:

Untitled Trigger 001
    Events
        Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting an object
        Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting a point
        Unit - A unit Is issued an order with no target
    Conditions
    Actions
        Unit - Order (Triggering unit) to Stop

Offtopic: How many post do you have to have to change the text under your avatar?

it's not posts it's rep and u need 100 rep to do that

 

[Sirroelivan]

Because then they wouldn't follow the commander anymore, (I also could do it with a modified locust swarm, but then those units move stupid)

Thx anyway about the avatar explanation

 

[chthekiller]

why not simply:

Untitled Trigger 001
    Events
        Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting an object
        Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting a point
        Unit - A unit Is issued an order with no target
    Conditions
    Actions
        Unit - Order (Triggering unit) to Stop

That would make the units stop even the orders from triggers. I suggest using the code above with this:

Untitled Trigger 001
    Events
        Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
    Conditions
        (Ability being cast) Equal to yourability
    Actions
        Trigger - Turn off triggername
        //Actions to be performed here
        Trigger - Turn on triggername

triggername being the name of the first trigger. This would allow orders to be given through triggers.

 

[Doom-Angel]

That would make the units stop even the orders from triggers. I suggest using the code above with this:

ever heard on a thing called condition?
u can simply use boolean variable for this case and solve ur problem......

 

[chthekiller]

You could do that, but this is easier. Since he's going to make triggers for the order abilities anyway, it would only take a copy paste of 2 lines.

 

[AceHart]

> you can simply use a boolean variable for this case and solve your problem

Any details?

 

[Ghan]

Why couldn't you give the regular units locust?

 

[Doom-Angel]

Any details?

well if u want want me to explain it fully then k:

Untitled Trigger 001
    Events
        Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting an object
        Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting a point
        Unit - A unit Is issued an order with no target
    Conditions
        BooleanVar Equal to True
    Actions
        Unit - Order (Triggering unit) to Stop
        Set BooleanVar = False

now simply everytime u wanna order through triggers u set the variable to true....
any simple way then this one?

 

[Sirroelivan]

I couldn't give them locust, because then they wouldn't be attackble anymore. I do want to now if I can give the sergeant a variation on Locust swarm, just without the units having the locust ability

 

[Ghan]

Hm. I don't know how having locust swarm without locust would work. It might re-create killed units even though you wouldn't want it to, and I don't know how it would react to the units being attacked in the first place. It's something to try, though.

 

[Velex]

Orders

Im working on a simialar map and am stuck in the same situation.
I made it like this;

Events
Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting a point
Conditions
(Issued order) Equal to (Order(move))
(Unit-type of (Ordered unit)) Equal to Calvery Captain
((Ordered unit) is selected by (Owner of (Ordered unit))) Equal to True
Actions
Unit Group - Order (Units owned by (Owner of (Ordered unit)) of type Calvery) to Move To (Target point of issued order)


Oh and i acually just figured it out while writing this post;

rc
Events
Player - Player 1 (Red) Selects a unit
Conditions
(Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Footman
Actions
Selection - Clear selection for Player 1 (Red)
Im going to do it like that, so the player can't select the units to order them, only the commanders.