Unit Combat ... help please!

[Lawrence]

hello

#1
Is there a way where i can add a delay whenever a unit begins to attack? for example, i am making a heavy machine unit, but i wanna make it realistic, so i don't want him to run and run and then suddenly fire...

#2
I am making units with guns ... is there a way i can make it so that after a certin amount of time they have to reload? or just delay it so that it it will take a certain period of time before they can attack again?

 

[The Helper]

bump

 

[Rinpun]

Yep, and it all depends on how you'd like to do it.

1) If you're not satisfied with changing the attack speed to a very high cooldown that it would wait like 3 seconds before firing again, you'll have to do a unit is ordered to attack or unit is attacked and then you pause the ordered unit or attacking unit, wait 2-3 seconds, and then unpause him. The power of pause and unpause is that the unit remembers his orders, so if he has a high attack speed he'll just blast away when he can.

2) Yea, but it depends on how you want to go about it. If it's a game like Dawn of the Dead where it's only one shooter, you can have an integer array with a value for each player that keeps track of their bullets and reloads or whatever. If it's a plain shooter with lots of units, you might want to use their custom value. Simply set it to, say, 50 bullets and then have a trigger that reduces the shooter's custom value by 1 if it isn't 0. If it's zero, then order unit to stop.