Siege units with a cargo hold

[hellblazer-1]

Hey Guys

In my new map, I have made several siege units. They all have cargo hold, but there are some special reasons for this...

I want to make my siege units unable to attack unless 3 ENGINEERS are in their cargo hold, and make them unable to store any other units.

This needs triggers i know, but I have no idea which, and it needs to be MUI, there will be more than 1 siege unit in the game at any time.
Thank you!!!
Hellblazer-14

 

[hellblazer-1]

Bump?

Is there any trigger to detect the number of units in another unit's cargo hold???

 

[BornANoob[MR]]

I don't know if this is actually possible, but you could make regions, which are constantly moved to the positions of the siege units, and when a unit enters this region, you add 1 to a variable, and when they leave, you take 1 away from the variable

 

[Panda]

Well I think I've figured out a way to do it...

Events
Unit - A unit Is loaded into a transport
Conditions
Actions
Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units within 20.00 of (Position of (Triggering unit))) and do (Actions)
Loop - Actions
If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
If - Conditions
(Unit-type of (Picked unit)) Equal to Siege Engine
(Owner of (Picked unit)) Equal owner of triggering unit
Then - Actions
Unit - Set the custom value of (Picked unit) to ((Custom value of (Picked unit)) + 1)
Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units of type Siege Engine) and do (Actions)
Loop - Actions
If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
If - Conditions
(Custom value of (Picked unit)) Equal to 3
Then - Actions
**Do whatever you wanted to do**
Else - Actions

I haven't tried it tho..
I don't know if you need to increase or decrease the range at which the units are picked.

 

[Geelottaja]

Why don't you make it work the same way burrows work? It'd enable only a specific unit type to enter and gives an attack if some are inside, each one inside also gives increased attack speed.

 

[WolSHaman]

Play around with the battle stations ability, because that's the only ability that can only load specific units.

 

[lord dakoth]

Or the goblin zepplin's "Cargo Hold" ability. What you should do is give the tank the "cargo hold" ability. You will need to have FIVE triggers for this.

1) A trigger to prevent tanks from doing anything once they are created.
2) A trigger to distinguish Engineers from other units (I suggest a Unit Group variable.)
3) A trigger to prevent non-Engineer units from activating the tanks.
4) A trigger to activate the tanks once three Engineers are in the cargo hold.
5) A trigger to DEACTIVATE the tanks once there are no longer three engineers in them.

I'm assuming you can figure out the actual triggers by yourself...?

 

[hellblazer-1]

thanks guys! That helped a lot. Yes, I hope I can figure them out myself, I'm not all that shabby with triggers

Plus rep!!