1) How do you change the owner of all the units in a unit group?
2) How would I detect that a unit stays inside an area, not enters or leaves?

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on May 23 2010, 9:43 am by JB4times4.

For problem #2:
Set variable 1 to 1 if he enters it and set it to 0 when he leaves it. Set it to 0 when the unit died as well.
Then check via trigger the variable value^^ I'm not sure whether there is a condition or event "unit is in location", but I know that there is somethign like this which can only return true or false, depends on whether the unit is or is not in the location.

1) Make a loop, for each unit in unit group set owner to player x
2) Event: Periodic (every .05 seconds). Condition: Unit x is in location y.

Unit Group - For each unit Unit in 1-1 do (Actions)
What do I put as the red unit above if it is different units in the unit group?

2)@Centreri Is there a way to do a generic unit instead of a specific single unit on the map?

1) I don't have the editor here to go into specifics.
2) Random unit in unit group (units in region) is in region. Yep, workaround.

I mean generic as in like a marine instead of a specific marine, but I guess I could just make a trigger add all marines to a unit group and such.

[EDIT]
Alright, this is what I setup and it doesn't work.

When I run the map I get the error:


For testing only, I also tried == player 1, and I get the same error.

This is for my zone control map I'm making, and I'm trying to detect that they own the bunker there, and then spawn units accordingly.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on May 19 2010, 3:41 am by JB4times4.

Alright, so this is the only way I can think of to ask this, I'll use words to make the trigger I want, but can't figure out (The red I can't figure out)

-=Events=-
Every 2 game seconds
-=Conditions=-
1*(Number of Living units in (Bunker units in regionABC owned by player 1 matching Excluded: Missile, Dead, Hidden, with at most Any Amount)) > 0
2*(Number of Living units in (Bunker units in Entire Map owned by player 1 matching Excluded: Missile, Dead, Hidden, with at most Any Amount)) > 0
-=Actions=-
Create 1 Marine for player 1 at (Center of Region)
3*Remove all units for player without a bunker
_______________________________________________
1* & 2* - I used Unit Group -> Number of units in unit group

3* - this will have to be in a separate trigger because it will never run if the player has a bunker
_______________________________________________
-=Events=-
Every 2 game seconds
-=Conditions=-
(Number of Living units in (Bunker units in Entire Map owned by player 1 matching Excluded: Missile, Dead, Hidden, with at most Any Amount)) < 1
-=Actions=-
3* Unit Group - Pick each unit in (Any units in (Entire map) owned by player Player1 matching Excluded: Missile, Dead, Hidden, with at most Any Amount) and do (Actions)
Actions
Unit - Kill (Picked unit)

-Hope this helps.

So I set the trigger as such:

and I get the error:
00:00:14.00 Trigger Error in 'gt_D1_Func': Parameter out of bounds in 'sUnitCreate' (value: -1, min: 0, max: 15)

I own the only bunker there, and it's been added to the unit group.

I got the one to detect if theres a bunker there and prevent building another one to work, now I'm working on getting the one that removes their units working.

Thanks so much for your help!

Wait! You can't create a unit for the "triggering" player because there is no triggering player. You are using a non-player oriented event - periodic event. A player does not trigger a periodic event so its returning "-1" as the triggering player.

Edit: you have to use a trigger for each player or use a for loop with an if/then/else statement.

Oh, alright...Thanks I didn't really realize, that I had done that! I'll try the if then else loop and let you know how it goes.

Alright, I've got this setup right now and my minerals go from 444 to 666 but the units don't become mine:


everytime a marine is created it is added to "Units on map" and everytime a bunker is created (counting the starting bunkers) it is added to "Bunkers"

Solved.
Oh ya, why it's solved:
My trigger adding units to the unit group "units in bunkers" wasn't working right, so in turn this trigger wasn't working. Everything in the above trigger was fine though.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on May 23 2010, 7:32 pm by Devourer. Reason: merged