why not use the filters to exclude buried and cloaked?
What will happen in that instance is they will not be the target of the initial order, but if your attack wave has detection and they are on the path of the attack order, they will be attacked
Unit - Order All units to ( Attack targeting (Closest unit to Point in (Any units in Unit Group owned by player Any Player matching Excluded: Missile, Buried, Cloaked, Dead, Hidden, with at most Any Amount))) (Replace Existing Orders)
Last edited Dec 19, 2012 by nevjmac
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AstralCV Regular ShmoeSo I ran into a problem with my current project and I'm stuck. Been working on trigger variations for like 2 days and can't get it.
What I want is for a computer army to attack the closest unit to it's base. Now that is a pretty simple trigger... What I had was this:
Now, the problem with this trigger is if the closest unit is like say, a burrowed roach, the computer units will just move to that position and sit there. I thought that using "Required: Visible" would filter out cloaked/burrowed units. However apparently that filter doesn't work that way, or perhaps it's because the way the trigger is setup it doesn't know which players visibility to check? Either way it doesn't work.
The alternative I am using, is simply telling the units to attack toward the other base, however then the computer army will just ignore your units if your not in their direct attack path. Which is absolutely not what I want considering flanking will occur fairly often.
Now, because the computer player can have detection sometimes, its important that cloaked/burrowed units are attacked if/when detection is around, and ignored the rest of the time.
So does anyone know a way to filter out cloaked or burrowed units but only when there is no detection present? My current thought is to build it around 3-4 conditions like "closest unit has behavior burrowed" or unit filters checking for detectors. But I really don't think it needs to be that complex. Especially since this is a trigger that will be running fairly often to update the current objectives of the computers units.