Pathing Enemies to attack whatever is closest?

[dead-manakin]

Hello, I am now working on a copy of survival to see how well I can recreate it / improve it. Right now i am having a few difficulties with the pathing for making monsters spawn every 0.5 seconds and aromatically find a random human player to attack and stay on that person until either: another person attacks it, or another person comes very close to it. So far I have a Trigger that states the following:

Events:
Map initialization
Conditions:

Actions:
Unit Group - Order (Units in (Playable map area) owned by Player 12 (Brown)) to Attack (Random unit from (Units of type Marine))

How could I make it better? Or better yet, completely turn it around and use variables or something.

 

[Dirac]

if the unit dosnt have visibility of the unit it's supposed to attack, it cant attack it, also it would be better just to add the order to the unit once it's created.
instead of typing your whole trigger here, copy it from the editor using the right click command "copy as text"

PS: is this a poll?

 

[dead-manakin]

I did copy it from the editor.....

And Yes I want to see how many other viewers know this, like I want to know If im the only person in the world who doesn't know this skill. It shows me how relevant my posts are.

 

[Dirac]

Was my answer helpful? you didn't say.
It really doesn't matter if you're the only one that doesn't know this

 

[dead-manakin]

Yes, it is helpful. So if my enemies cant see the heroes they cant attack? Then should I just give them view of the whole map? An how do I measure the distance between two targets? I need to do that to find the closest target.

 

[Dirac]

When setting a real value look between the BJs (the list of things to do with reals) under Math - Distance between points

 

[dead-manakin]

Thank you I will try to form a trigger from that

Ill post anymore questions I have about the subject here later today.