SC2Mapster

Been a few years, but have some free time on my hands now!

When I first saw it, I always thought the idea of building a huge unit on the battlefield straight from an SCV was really cool. I get that it could have some weird effects in multiplayer, but it's a shame that that mechanic wasn't least implemented in the campaign or something.

Textures were done in Paint.NET and I'm starting to make the transition from Blender to 3ds Max for modelling. Some minor trim and fade work was done in Audacity for the timed Thor footstep sounds.

Apologies for the video quality and lag, I only have a laptop.

Thanks! I've been a fan of your work since i played "Stukov, Man or Monster"

I found the function I needed. It is UnitCargoGroup(unit: Unit): UnitGroup

And this is the iteration I use to accumulate the army value of the units inside Nydus Networks:

                ------- Units inside nydus networks are not included in the `Entire Map` region. So their upkeep is treated sepparately here.
                ForEachUnitInGroup(nydusNetwork,(UnitGroup("NydusNetwork",player,(RegionEntireMap()),Excluded: Dead,1)))
                    actions
                        ForEachUnitInGroup(armyUnit,(UnitCargoGroup(nydusNetwork)))
                            actions
                                addUnitCost(armyUnit,costAccums[player])

Now the mod calculates the army value correctly.

Thank you MaskedImposer for mentioning the word "cargo". It helped me to find the function I needed.

But what you could do, (just thought of it) for needing more than 32 abilities max to clone, is to have a trigger replace the cloner unit with the same exact looking unit but just a replica unit type, that had the next set of 32 abilities.

So like the cloner unit tries to clone another unit's ability, and you run that other unit through a switch. If it ends up belonging to some pre-defined list of group B units (those with abilities 33-64), kill and replace the cloner unit with the exact same unit type except for a new XML ID and its abilities (which would be the ones 33-64) (just restore its xp, hp, and energy values etc. to what they were before it used the clone ability).

That way you could have an infinite amount of abilities to clone because you can just keep making new unit types that are duplicates of your original cloner unit, each with their own unique set of 32 different abilities in data.

Let me know if that made any sense, sorry couldn't think of a better way to write it out, and can't upload any more images ;/ 

In reply to MaskedImposter:

Thank you so much!

I didn't know Arrays can have dimensions to account for all the possible Player combinations, so I thank you for showing me how to do it :D

Take care ^^

This video is useful for setting up veterancy behaviors. It also includes extra information like scaling damage and health from leveling up. 

*Data editing starts at t = 2:22

Cheers both, i'm sure its not the cleanest way of getting the job done but i've managed to get it working with your advise pointing me in the right direction. Cheers for your suggestion too BaneBurst. 

I now have a fully fuctional boss battle for my map with 4 phases per 25% health lost. 👌

Hi, Wonder_Rem,

I guess that what you want is how to reference actors through Reference Set actor message. There are many ways to reference an actor within an actor, through setting Actor target ID within the Actor, through using signals, through using RefSet Actor message and so on.

I will give you two examples for an attach model actor and they mean the same thing :-

Let's say I want to change the blue sphere model attachment of the Tempest to red, so let's start.

We determine two actors - the Tempest unit actor and the StormSphereAttachment model addition actor.

Example 1

In the Tempest Unit Actor Event, add in the following:-

Actor Creation

->Target:StormSphereAttachment

->Set Tint Color 255,0,0

Example 2

In the StormSphereAttachment Actor Event, add in the following:-

Actor Creation

->RefSet ::actor.Tempest ::Self

RefSet

->RefEquals ::actor.Tempest ::Self

->Set Tint Color 255,0,0

So, both examples ended in the blue sphere model of the Tempest turning red. 

For more references and guidance, do look at the following guide :-

https://s2editor-guides.readthedocs.io/Classic_Tutorials/04_Misc/actor-cheats/

Thanks.