Selen managment

[Ithilis_Quo]

Selen is great because full invis ability when dont move/fire what we all know.

But it have hard managment to stay on place, not be selected and not fire. So i got solution:

- add (cloak) ability to selen
when turned on: selen have cloak (of course) gun turned off and cant move
when turned off: selen dont have cloak (of course) gun turned on and can move

reasult: selen can be much easyr manage on map, and stay on place also when is near selen ally army, also its more noob freindly as hold fire, that not all begginer have clue about

When know how to code it, and want to help me make prototype, your help is wealcome
(know how to add ability, but im not 100% sure about how to hold fire/move on off)

[Col_Walter_Kurtz]

That is pure genius

[wasdf]

I use an UI mod that lets me lock certain units out of selection with a button press, you can still move the unit again by manual clicking. I think it's UIparty that gives this functionality.

Edit: with manual clicking i mean selecting the unit whithout other units in the selection (and pressing the button again to unlock)

[quark036]

Ithilis, I think you can use SetBlockCommandQueue (its in the luadoc) to keep it from moving, then combine that with the uiparty bit about being unselectable unless you just select that unit, then change the fire mode to hold fire.

[JaggedAppliance]

It is difficult to manage selens like that but a lot of people use selen deselect which helps a lot. However I think selens are too powerful when you can use them so easily.

[keyser]

yes what you are asking is already done by selen deselect ui. Furthermore this is a big buff of the unit. (that's why selen deselect ui is considered to be borderline cheating)

[Ithilis_Quo]

its not buff, its make unit less anoying. When its selent then too strong, then its need to do soemthign with selen to not be too strong and not make him more annoying.
PS: thx for tip, i check code on that mode.

[keyser]

when you make a unit more easily microable, it's a buff.

[Ithilis_Quo]

that code is quite complicate, probably to be used as ui mod... hmm


Its not exaktli buff, its remved anoyngnes. When you will need click 4 time on scout to use radar, that radarwill be same, only its super annying. Selen is same principle, you can already use him for this function, only ist super anoing. selen is maybe too good, and when will not be use him for ambush scouting so anoying maybe would be op, maybe already is. But then we need tweak him to not be op, maybe add energy consuption on cloak, and not let him ussles/very hard to use because use him corectly is so anoying.

are here some more educated coders, who can write me simply lines that would also be corect and work:

Code: Select all

if function(cloak) = 1 (on)
then turn gun off
and
change unit select category (for something that is not military/enginering unit)

and same as oposite when is funtion cloak off...

i try multiple lines, but everyone have some fatal mistake and didnt work :/

[rxnnxs]

look at:
/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=9678
there is already a new version. but the selection lock can maybe used for this purpose.

also it would be nice, that all units, regardless what unit type, is not selected when set to ground fire.

and the ground fire ..
right now it can be set by a key that rotates the states.
of course it would be awesome if one key toggles both modes.

but maybe the new mod serves all your needs..:
viewtopic.php?f=41&t=9776#p98269

- unit lock feature. hit the lock key and the unit will be locked (a little padlock symbol is drawn). Now it will be filtered out of any selection that contains locked and unlocked units. Shift key overrides this behavior back to normal.