1) costs energy
2) unit plays animation
3) at certain point in animation, summoned unit appears
What is a good dummy ability to base this on? I experimented with burrow, but ran into issues.
Step 3) is NOT the issue, I know how to do this with GPTP.
I want to create a summon ability. Like this:
1) costs energy
2) unit plays animation
3) at certain point in animation, summoned unit appears
What is a good dummy ability to base this on? I experimented with burrow, but ran into issues.
Step 3) is NOT the issue, I know how to do this with GPTP.
1) costs energy
2) unit plays animation
3) at certain point in animation, summoned unit appears
What is a good dummy ability to base this on? I experimented with burrow, but ran into issues.
Step 3) is NOT the issue, I know how to do this with GPTP.
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Rather than basing it on an ability at all, I'd recommend using the "Carrier Stop" or "Reaver Stop" orders. These are pretty useful for actions where you just want the player to press a button and have something happen.
Here's a skeleton of what that might look like:
You will need to make sure that you edit the requirements for the Carrier Stop order so that your unit can use it.
As far as playing an animation goes, you can use unit->sprite->playIscriptAnim() to do that, and the sigorder iscript opcode to communicate back to GPTP. So perhaps our code might look something like this:
And our iscript something along these lines:
to ensure that we summon the unit at the appropriate point in the animation.
Here's a skeleton of what that might look like:
Code
if(unit->mainOrderId == OrderId::CarrierStop) {
unit->orderToIdle();
if(unit->energy < 25600) {
scbw::showErrorMessageWithSfx(unit->playerId, 864, 158);
}
else {
//do stuff here
}
}
unit->orderToIdle();
if(unit->energy < 25600) {
scbw::showErrorMessageWithSfx(unit->playerId, 864, 158);
}
else {
//do stuff here
}
}
You will need to make sure that you edit the requirements for the Carrier Stop order so that your unit can use it.
As far as playing an animation goes, you can use unit->sprite->playIscriptAnim() to do that, and the sigorder iscript opcode to communicate back to GPTP. So perhaps our code might look something like this:
Code
if(unit->mainOrderId == OrderId::CarrierStop) {
unit->orderToIdle();
if(unit->energy < 25600) {
scbw::showErrorMessageWithSfx(unit->playerId, 864, 158);
}
else {
unit->sprite->playIscriptAnim(IscriptAnim::CastSpell, true);
}
}
else if (unit->orderSignal == 16) {
//summon the unit here
}
unit->orderToIdle();
if(unit->energy < 25600) {
scbw::showErrorMessageWithSfx(unit->playerId, 864, 158);
}
else {
unit->sprite->playIscriptAnim(IscriptAnim::CastSpell, true);
}
}
else if (unit->orderSignal == 16) {
//summon the unit here
}
And our iscript something along these lines:
Code
playfram 0x11 # Frame set 12
wait 1
playfram 0x22 # Frame set 2
sigorder 16
wait 1
playfram 0x33
wait 1
wait 1
playfram 0x22 # Frame set 2
sigorder 16
wait 1
playfram 0x33
wait 1
to ensure that we summon the unit at the appropriate point in the animation.
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[08:47 am]
NimoStar -- the thing with the "*12" thing is completely misleading. The AI isn't using two control groups, it can use each of those actions to command a single unit individually and issue different commands to each single unit.[08:06 am]
NudeRaider -- NudeRaiderNudeRaider shouted: Oh_Man Artosis hasn't caught on how devastating the perfect focus fire is. With the mutas he was like "the Mutas always seem to have less hp than against a human". But he didn't notice that the flock he had selected always just had one muta that was hurt. Same with the wraiths here. He's talking about how valks+wraith is gonna destroy Pluto's valks, then 5s later he's dumbfounded the human player's air is just gone and he never figured out why. And for some reason didn't even think to go back and look at the battle.
*Pluto's wraiths[08:05 am]
NudeRaider -- Oh_ManOh_Man shouted: https://youtu.be/scNIjVxVaYA
Artosis hasn't caught on how devastating the perfect focus fire is. With the mutas he was like "the Mutas always seem to have less hp than against a human". But he didn't notice that the flock he had selected always just had one muta that was hurt. Same with the wraiths here. He's talking about how valks+wraith is gonna destroy Pluto's valks, then 5s later he's dumbfounded the human player's air is just gone and he never figured out why. And for some reason didn't even think to go back and look at the battle.[2026-9-21. : 4:14 pm]
Vrael -- perhaps there is a small professional player trapped in a box in the server rack where pluto is running? hmm?
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