switch depending on unit type of unitpicked unit
if (drone)
set unitpickedname = drone
there might be a way to return as the name of the unit but i don't have editor open right now and i'm too lazy to do so right now, i'll edit this in the morning and post a new reply if i find an easier method.
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Cool! Thanks! Would appreciate that. I saw some code on this site for doing it for a specific unit, but doing it for every race and unit in that race seems a bit redundant, but if it's the only way I suppose it'll have to be done that way.
here's a map that returns the unit's name, you'll have to convert it to what you want in order to use it, but it gives you the idea
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Thank you thank you thank you! That worked great! For anyone who stumbles upon this later, here is my trigger to get this working:
When a unit is built write out current unit counts Events Unit - Any Unit creates a unit with ability Any or behavior No Game Link Local Variables player = 0 <Integer> xmlKey = 0 <Integer> unit = No Unit <Unit> unitPickedName = "" <String> allUnitsGroup = No Unit Group <Unit Group> Conditions Actions Player Group - For each player player in (All players) do (Actions) Actions General - If (Conditions) then do (Actions) else do (Actions) If (Owner of (Created unit)) == player Then Bank - Open bank "unitsBuiltBank" for player player Variable - Set allUnitsGroup = (Any units in (Entire map) owned by player player matching Excluded: Missile, Dead, Hidden, with at most Any Amount) Unit Group - For each unit unit in allUnitsGroup do (Actions) Actions Variable - Set unitPickedName = (Value of Units (Unit type of unit) Name for player Any Player) Bank - Store string unitPickedName as (String(xmlKey)) of section "data" in bank (Last opened bank) Variable - Set xmlKey = (xmlKey + 1) Bank - Save bank (Last opened bank) Else
This will write out data to the bank that looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Bank version="1"> <Section name="data"> <Key name="4"> <Value string="Unit/Name/SCV"/> </Key> <Key name="6"> <Value string="Unit/Name/SCV"/> </Key> <Key name="3"> <Value string="Unit/Name/SCV"/> </Key> <Key name="0"> <Value string="Unit/Name/SCV"/> </Key> <Key name="2"> <Value string="Unit/Name/SCV"/> </Key> <Key name="7"> <Value string="Unit/Name/CommandCenter"/> </Key> <Key name="5"> <Value string="Unit/Name/SCV"/> </Key> </Section> </Bank>
And at the next layer in my stack (I'll share this project once it's complete), I'm able to condense this into the desired format of: SCV : 7 CommandCenter : 1 Marine : 1
I didn't see anyway to iterate over each type of unit and write this out directly from SC2 to the bank files without doing if (Marine ) if (SCV), etc. Does anyone know if there are any optimizations between my code and the final desired product?
Thanks all!
you can get rid of the Unit/name/ by removing the first 10 characters of each string btw.
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Ahh sorry - should've been clearer. This doesn't have to do with the Unit/Name stuff - that can easily be removed in the Editor or later on as I'm doing now.
I meant currently I write out SCV, SCV, SCV, SCV, Command Center to my bank file. Is there any way to make it so I can write out SCV 6, Command Center 1, Marines 17, etc. Right now I just write out a list of every unit.
I suppose I could do as I'm doing now, but for every unit type, get the total of that unit and write that, but then I'd still be writing N times if I have N units no?
what you're doing is fine i was just commenting on how the example above had:
Quote from marktronic: Go"Unit/Name/SCV"
and how you could get rid of that easily
marktronic Regular ShmoeI am trying to get the player's army composition (e.g. 10 drones, 1 overlord, 3 larva, etc.) written out to a bank file when a new unit is created. What I have currently is pasted below. My current issue is I'm only able to get the total number of units, and I'm not able to get the unit name/identifier written out. Ideally, I'd be writing data out:
"drones" : 10 "overlord" : 1 "larva" : 3
Can anyone offer some direction on how to get this working properly? It's not critical I get the actual unit name. So long as it's some unique identifier, I can figure out what those identifiers are and then create a mapping between those and "human-readable" names farther down in my stack.
Many thanks!