Cloaking Units
Category: triggers Author(s): Various Authors

Cloaking UnitsUse the trigger called Disable Doodad State on a unit to cloak it. Not all units can be cloaked this way; disabling some units will cause the game to crash.
For buildings (Bunker, Beacon, Photon Cannon, etc) the players will need to "detect" the building before it actually cloaks.
This can be done in a few different ways:
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1. Give the building to the human player for a moment, then give it back to the computer.
2. Turn on shared vision with the unit's owner with the Run AI Script action for a moment, then turn it back off.
3. Use an actual detector unit, such as an Observer, Science Vessel, Overlord, etc. Create the unit near the disabled building, then remove it after a moment.
A moment after the disabled building is detected and then un-detected by the player, it will appear to cloak.
If your disabled buildings look normal but are unclickable, you probably didn't have the detector alive long enough to actually detect the building.



Alternative MethodIf the unit you want cloaked crashes the game when disabled, or it doesn't work for some other reason, you may still be able to cloak it with the "Disable-Enable-Enable" method.
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Actions:
* Disable doodad state for 'Unit'.
* Wait 100ms.
* Enable doodad state for 'Unit'.
* Wait 100ms.
* Enable doodad state for 'Unit'.
* Wait 100ms.
* Issue order to all 'Unit' owned by Player at 'Location':
Move to 'Lestination'.
For the order to move action, it must try to move, is not important "where", or if it can move or not. After the unit is cloaked with this trigger you can do anything you want with it.
Not all units can be cloaked with this method.