I'm trying to create a new observer evading map similar to Observer Lovely Space.
The thing that annoyed me, and other players most was accidently clicking observers while progressing.
As some of you know, Observer lovely space needs extremely fine grained control, and clicking on an observer instead of the terrain will mess up your movement badly.
Hence, observers that are not clickable would be a great enhancement for the overall gameplay, which inspired me to create a new map.

Does anyone know how to make units non clickable? (To be more exact, non clickable when you right click them)
I have seen maps in the past where you can't drag or right click on your opponents unit but you can see them, which means it is possible, but I do not know how.

Any advice?

It won't work on observers specifically, but if you cloak a unit by disabling and re-enabling it, and the player controls no detectors, then the unit will appear uncloaked but the game will consider it cloaked. You will not be able to select it or target it.

I can't seem to find the wiki article on this particular method of cloaking, and I don't recall the units that don't crash when performing it ...

EDIT2:
But fortunately I keep these lists around! All heroes omitted. They work the same as their normal counterparts. It appears that some unique heroes are missing (such as Infested Kerrigan), but this list is old so I wouldn't rely too heavily on it.

There seems to be a lot of variables, like direction the unit is facing (I think this applies to Battlecruisers), perhaps tileset, and even more that I don't know about. So I'd say try ones that it says crash if necessary. You may be lucky.

If you need an overview of the method I'm suggesting, the trigger is like this:


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I have found a map that uses the technique.
Does it match the one that you just described?
I'm trying to study the triggers on the map, but am having a hard time since I can only open this map with StarForge, and the locations are all messed up which makes it hard to make out what the triggers mean.

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Hey, I made that map.

It's exactly as Farty says: this trick only works with a limited set of units, and I don't believe Observers are among the ones that work. You can try the trigger provided above with an Observer, but chances are it will crash your game immediately.

It's also worth mentioning that some units that work on Windows XP (like the Hydralisk) do not work on Windows 7 (maybe it's an x86 vs x64 issue, though, now that I think of it), so getting a definitive list is not an easy task to do.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Nov 9 2013, 5:26 pm by Roy.

I guess then the most ideal way is to create a custom dll that ignores all the right clicks targeted to units.
That seems to be the best solution in the current situation.
Anyways, Thanks!

Maybe sprites are an option? Of course you can't move those.

http://www.staredit.net/starcraft/Set_Doodad_State#Non-crashing_units
I believe this is the wiki page

That's for disable only, which renders the unit useless without re-enabling. Also comparing the lists, there seems to be little correlation with which units crash and don't crash between either method.

hydralisks crash frequently I know. I think you have to order them to move, wait for them to get to the location, disable them, enable 2x and then order to move again. there's a certain idle or moving frame which crashes.

Afaik when the hydra looks down