Next---- Items that allow targeting

[Red Beard]

OKely Dokely, with a special thanks to ACEHART for his spontaneous reply and wonderful solution.

My next question is this:

I have a number of "environmental objects" that I would like to be targeted for manipulation. (trees and rocks etc)

How can I make it so, you cant 'chop' a tree without an axe, and you cant 'mine' a rock without a pick,

can i make it a 'passive ability' where if u attack it it will be targeted, or will it have to be item selectable.

 

[XXXconanXXX]

Every time you target a tree with a Peasant, they automatically cast Harvest upon it allowing them to harvest it and bring it back to the base. All you need to do is stop them fro casting it if they don't have the item.

Stop unit if he doesn't have item
    Events
        Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability
    Conditions
        (Ability being cast) Equal to Harvest (Gold and Lumber)
    Actions
        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
            If - Conditions
                ((Casting unit) has an item of type <Your item>) Equal to False
            Then - Actions
                Unit - Order (Casting unit) to Stop
                Game - Display to (Player group((Owner of (Casting unit)))) for 5.00 seconds the text: You cannot Harvest ...
            Else - Actions

 

[Red Beard]

hmmm, ok, would this work if the unit wasnt a peasant, sayyyyyy a hero? without the harvest abiliity

 

[AceHart]

Units always have two attacks "combat - attack 1" and "combat - attack 2".

There's also an ability somewhere that enables attack 2, which is off by default.
Given to an item that your unit must find and carry.

Now with playing around with the "targets allowed" for attack 2,
and, if needed, a modified unit classification of your "rocks"...

For trees, it's simple, there's a "target allowed" called "Tree".


Could work

 

[Red Beard]

hmmmmmmmmmm

thats what im looking for, will i be able to distinguish which 'tool' is being used.......... I would hate it if someone took to my rocks with their axe.............. would conan's trigger work here? somewhat modifed

 

[Red Beard]

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
sorry

i just woke up and this is the first place i came to......... even b4 my morning inhalation of carcenogenic fumes.

THE ORBS ARE THE SECRET

man i feel kinda silly now


THANKS AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Red Beard]

OK, update time........ (if anyone cares)

The particular field which affects the enabled attacks is DATA- enabled attack index

This is great.... but it comes with a problem

My 'pick' which only allowed the targeting of rocks (walls) {targets allowed = walls}
also targeted the trees -.-

I could work around this with a trigger, i suppose... ordering the attacking unit to stop if they target trees with a pick in their inventory, but that to me seems kinda messy. is there a better way around this??

 

[Ling_Lover]

the only non-messy way would be to have attack 1 attack the rocks and attack 2 attack trees but then you cant have a normal attack

 

[Red Beard]

Seems like Im flogging a dead horse

I know I know, my impatience is pretty obvious....................

Im just fustrated, cos im stuck and its one of my days offandiwantedtogetthisdoneand................................= stress machine

Well, I have tried to trigger my damn Hero from NOT attacking the tree when he has a pick in his inventory, but it wont stop him, he just keeps on going his merry way.......
grrrrrrr

can someone tell me whats i need to change---------

(this is embarrasing because I got pretty cruddy coding and trigger skills--- self taught nooblet with no idea about these things---- just got a great imagination)

EVENT: UNit is given an order targeting an object (i think this bit is where i go wrong but i cant find anything more appropriate)

Condition: ((Destructible-type of (target destructible of isssued order)) equal to <oredeposit> and (((Triggering Unit has an item of type pick) Equal to false)

Event Order (ordered unit to stop)

thx, IM trying to be patient

 

[Ling_Lover]

maybe instead of targeting an object it should be a unit? thats about all i can think of at the moment...
except this...

((Destructible-type of (target destructible of isssued order)) equal to <oredeposit> and (((Triggering Unit has an item of type pick) Equal to false)

is this two different conditions? or is it melded into one... i think it should be

((Destructible-type of (target destructible of isssued order)) equal to <oredeposit>) and ((Triggering Unit has an item of type pick) Equal to false)

 

[Red Beard]

i dont think its a unit because the ore deposit and trees are destructibles

oh and i changed the coding from triggering unit to ordered unit to no avail

 

[Ling_Lover]

try it with the unit one, just to be sure...

 

[Red Beard]

nope, because <"target destrucitble of issued order" is when responding to an 'is issued an order targeting an object' unit event with a destructible target, this refers to the target of the order>

in english, i think this is the code that works for destructibles, using this code i have stopped a meat wagon from collecting corpses

meatwagon= unit
corpses=objects/destructible

I could do the both attacks for different destructibles, meaning though that the units will NOT be able to attack without a weapon, (we cant have normal units being able to chop trees or the like without the appropriate tool)

the whole concpet was to try and retard the tech process a bit, by making it harder to aquire the materials needed for technological advancement.....

By making no attacks, means that------ well, hmmmmmmmmm

I suppose i DONT REALLY have to chop the trees at all, its not a vital part of the game, the ore is but not the trees, in this vers anyway...... bah what a dilemma