Making a group/unit invulnerable

[The Dark Lord]

Is it possible to do this? I couldn't find any scripts that could help me to achieve this.

[Krom]

IIRC there's no such script command.

[The Dark Lord]

Would you consider adding a script that affects regeneration time of life points? This allows use of 'hero units'...

[Esthlos]

Would you consider adding a script that affects regeneration time of life points? This allows use of 'hero units'...

This should be very easy to do... a States.UnitHealth and an Actions.UnitSetHealth would be enough for this, imho.

  Code:

function TKMUnit.GetHealth: Byte; begin result := fHitPoints; end; procedure TKMUnit.SetHealth(aHP: Byte); begin if aHP <= 0 then fHitPoints := 0 else if aHP >= HitPointsMax then fHitPoints := HitPointsMax else fHitPoints := aHP; end;

Anyway, as far as I know this is what comes closest to that at the moment:

  Code:

procedure OnUnitAfterDied(aUnitType, aOwner, aX, aY); begin if aUnitType >= 14 then Actions.GiveGroup(aOwner, aUnitType, aX, aY, 0, 1, 1) else Actions.GiveUnit(aOwner, aUnitType, aX, aY, 0); end;

[Krom]

Problem with that, is that there's no in-game indication of how much HP unit has got and if he is invulnerable.

[The Dark Lord]

There is alsno no in-game indication if I spawn 1000 enemy knights on top of your storehouse at the start of the mission... Except the 1000 knights. Abusers are going to abuse, why punish the righteous?

[Krom]

There is alsno no in-game indication if I spawn 1000 enemy knights on top of your storehouse at the start of the mission... Except the 1000 knights. Abusers are going to abuse, why punish the righteous?

There were none and next second there's 1000 - that is indication.

Added to proposals list (https://github.com/Kromster80/kam_remak ... ipting.txt)

[Krom]

  Code:

procedure TKMUnit.SetHealth(aHP: Byte); begin if aHP <= 0 then fHitPoints := 0 // Sidenote: type Byte can not possibly be less than 0 by design else if aHP >= HitPointsMax then fHitPoints := HitPointsMax else fHitPoints := aHP; end;

There's a better way:

  Code:

procedure TKMUnit.SetHealth(aHP: Byte); begin // We don't want to accidentally kill the unit by setting HP to 0 fHitPoints := EnsureRange(aHP, 1, HitPointsMax); end;

[Esthlos]

There's a better way:

  Code:

procedure TKMUnit.SetHealth(aHP: Byte); begin // We don't want to accidentally kill the unit by setting HP to 0 fHitPoints := EnsureRange(aHP, 1, HitPointsMax); end;

Didn't know about the EnsureRange function

Why are UnitHPGet and UnitHPMax Actions instead of States?

[vovets1]

+1 to this idea as a Magic Arena developer.

[Rey]

Andreas just fix this, PR is on the way. Will see in the next release.
Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3aV6zEaCXs

[Esthlos]

Andreas just fix this, PR is on the way. Will see in the next release.
Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3aV6zEaCXs

It would also be awesome if the next KaM release also had:

• Actions.UnitTypeChange (at least for warriors)
• Actions.CreateFromTile (unit is created by walking in from a tile, so that we can make units exit buildings, caves, or even come in from the map's borders)
• Actions.KillToTile (the reverse of CreateFromTile, even limiting it to the 4 adjacent tiles would still be nice)

[Ben]

Problem with that, is that there's no in-game indication of how much HP unit has got and if he is invulnerable.

The game Empire Earth has a small graphical indication when a unit or building has been modified by "scripts." Adding such a mechanic to KaM could be quite useful, though it's much harder to do since soldiers are typically controlled as a collective unit rather than individually.

Now, it is[/] possible to select individual soldiers in KaM. Say, for example, that you select a knight within a group of knights. This respective individual knight's stats have been modified. This could be shown by a special icon of sorts on the screen where his condition and commands are shown. This icon could be displayed automatically when a unit is edited or manually through an additional script, whichever is easier/has more support with the community.

Furthermore, a similar feature of changing a soldier's or citizen's name could be quite useful. Best would be replacing the soldier's type with his name (change the label "knight" to "King John." for example). This would be both a very popular and useful feature, as mission makers have already put unique units in their missions.


Whew. There's my wall of text of the week. I typed all of that on my phone so please forgive any silly autocorrections I might have not replaced.

[Krom]

Changing units name will be fun indeed

[RandomLyrics]

Good idea! States.UnitHp, Actions.UnitSetHp would be nice for my maps i use "Respawn" method, but its not cool