Does anybody know the maximum amount of health a unit can have? Units that are preplaced can only have up to like 10k without starting hurt, but spawned units can have....9 mil? thats the highest I've heard.

You should get used to the wiki.

Unit HP range: -8388608 to 8388607 1/2 (Source: Wiki - Map Limits)

You could also use armor to make the time to kill the unit longer, or use a Virtual Hit Point system.

How can a unit have negative HP?

We can do what the SC data is willing to read.

what the heck does negitive hp do!? i have never heard of that one before

Negative hp pretty much sets a unit up for a one-hit-kill. You can have a unit with 0 damage kill a unit with -1000 hp in one shot.

i wonder if anyone has actually taken the time to explore this...

u know how the colored wireframes in SCMDraft are possible with that extra box, well i wonder what that would do when coupled with negtive hp

I tried a negative HP before and I think it crashed...but that was a while ago. Probably because of a patch thingy
if you have negative shields, even -1, the unit is completely invincible, yet able to be attacked, since SC subtracts the damage from the shields. EMP kinda makes it pointless though.

The wiki doesn't explain vHP, but for my map that probably wont matter because it's probably too complicated for the map I want to use it on.

What does it show in-game when it has negative HP? Does it just read as 0? Or does it actually say -(number)/-(number)?

No.
Negative shields turns the HP invisible, but the unit it still subject to damage. This works for all units, including those who do not actually have shields.
It briefly describes it. I'm sure there's a tutorial floating around here somewhere that goes into more detail.

It shows the negative value.

No, the negative shields will absorb the damage and a unit of -1 shields and 1 hp is impossible to kill. I can make a map and post a link if you want.

Ah sorry. I forgot that there is an exception for Protoss units. If they have negative shield values and positive HP values, you're right. However, if they have negative HP as well, they will still die in one hit. That EMP fact is interesting, though.

My earlier statement holds true for units that do not have shields.

Triple quote...

Edit: This topic has too many replies to irrelevant "what if" questions... These things only take two minutes to test.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Jan 16 2009, 2:19 am by Roy.

awww...I went ahead and made the map...it has all the possible units attacking a lone high templar, with a ghost and a nuke silo to make nuclear launches too...

Oh, I'm not exactly sure about the EMP thing. I'll test it in a minute [hey! that map does have a use now!]

hmm, I didn't know units without shields will have no HP display...thats cool. But protoss units with both values negative will still die?

What about the triple quote?

EDIT:
Oh, wow

The test map revealed one correct, one false fact, and one nobody cares about: negative shielded-units can be killed, it just takes a really, really, really super-long time. And the EMP does remove the shield [yay]. And irradiate doesn't do anything to a high templar. That too.

I kinda thought this through: this could be considered double-posting, but I think this should be an exception...the subject of the posts are totally different.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jan 16 2009, 11:21 am by NudeRaider. Reason: merged posts

Uhm. You could just use a trigger and constantly set the units HP to 100% for the same effect. Right?

that only works if the units' max HP is below a certain amount [10k ish]. Above that, and it acts like a preplaced unit: it cuts it down to whatever the limit is. If the unit is made after the game starts, it'll have full HP.

The reason I wanted to know the answer to the original question is because I'm making a defense map, and I wanna know what # I can't go over.

-8388608. If a unit takes 1 hp damage, will it follow the rules of an unsigned integer and become 8388607?
If this is true, then you could make for an interesting new concept. Only units that do a small amount of damage could kill it.
What are the effects of setting %hp on a unit with negative health?

I may test these two questions myself, and post back the results.

EDIT: Any damage will kill the unit.
Setting %hp does not work on units with negative hp.

I did find out however, that the maximum damage a unit can deal is 8388607, just like unit HP, the damage will be negative if it's above that, including the upgrades. However, negative damage deals 0.5, and doesn't heal the unit like I hoped.

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Jan 18 2009, 2:22 am by Heinermann.

SCMDraft fails and doesn't let you input a negative number.

As far as I know, any negative number is one hit kills.

Correct. When SC detects a change in HP below 0, it automatically assumes that the unit has taken some overkill damage (at least that's my theory; in any case, they're one-hit-kills). You know, a sort of "If unit's HP has changed and HP is equal to or less than 0, then kill unit."

I think SCMDraft allows you to put a number higher than 8388607 which will be read as a negative value. Well, more than think. -1000000 = 15777216

If you enter 8388609, the life is -8388607
If you enter 16777215, the life is -1

Basically, Subtract the positive value of the negative number you want from 16777216.

What was this thread about, again? Something about max HP?

Post has been edited 6 time(s), last time on Jan 18 2009, 3:01 am by Roy.