Thanks! I definetly owe you one.
Yeah, I have a hard time trying to explain things.
What I was going for was something that would reveal a units status while
employing certain skills.
For instance, there is a number of units in starcraft that have things like
cloaking devices and use shields.
I was trying to use transform for all of that. The problem was that transform
tends to hiccup sometimes.
However the nice thing about transforming units when they turn on a cloak or
shield is at the transform unit would be called cloaked or shielded.
This makes it really nice for a player. All they had to do was focus on that
unit and they new immediately what it's status was concerning those special
abilities.
With the add and remove skills flags, I can get a much Stabler use of those
powers, but at the expense of that simple and handy info. So that's why I
thought it would be nice to be able to put that kind of status into a units
name when he uses that particular skill or effect. If there was already a name
for that unit, then I can easily see a word placed in front of it giving some
kind of status to a player about that unit. Of course it could be a totally
different and better thing to do something else, but that's what my
nonprogramming brain came up with,lol.
al
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From: ian-reeds-games-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ian-reeds-games-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Monkey
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 6:20 PM
To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ian-reeds-games] Re: I gotta go see a man about a script...
Alright, we're discussing doing this through script. Hopefully one of us can
have it out in the next dev or two.
On 7/1/15, Monkey <murtagh69.monkeys@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You can use friendly_name=unit-name (don't use underscores there
though, because sappy reads them out). But I don't think that's what
you meant...
If you mean have the game only add it in certain cases though, I think
that's what you're saying...I'm not sure. Remember, I'm a beginner
when it comes to this stuff hahaha. I'll give Craig a poke about it
and see what he thinks.
On 7/1/15, Allan Thompson <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I guess this is mostly for monkey.
Is there a way to add a word to a units name. I'm not talking about
the filename, but the actual name of the unit.
For example I would like to put in a word like cloaked, shielded,
infected and things of that nature.
Basically I just want to add and remove these adjectives when a skill
or effect takes place, or even gets removed.
Maybe the name equals flag can be modified somehow?
Thanks for any thoughts on the matter, Al
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