SC2Mapster

!@#$@#$@#@!$#!@#$#$#!@#@$# there's such a dearth of information about these things.

anyway, i'm trying to use a TSMarker to avoid an ability hitting the same target twice.

unfortunately the search continues to double back almost at random.

anyway the way i have this shit set up is i have a launch effect that marks a target and then there's a second launch effect for "bounce" launches that marks targets, too. does it make any difference that there are two different launch effects applying markers for the same ability?

so i've got a mother fuckin' target sort being applied and i have no idea if it expires or if it makes changes the value of the marker when the marker is applied with two different effects. i have no idea what the fuck the target sort fields "request count" or "request percentage" do? are these important or just more extraneous bullshit?

why are there so many extraneous entries in this damn editor. like okay man, i selected the effect, or event, or whatever, obviously my intent is to use the thing i've selected. why do i have to click a second button to make the damn thing work?

like "FLAME ON" (fails)

"FLAME ON" + "FLAME ON ACTIVATE" (success)

like okay man i was never gonna flame on unless i wanted to flame on.

why are there a million redundant model entries with exactly the same field values for the same model with different names. like there are probably 2k models to sort through and you'll only ever want to use maybe 5% of these given 2k models and probably 75% of the model entries are redundant, fuck.

plus there just aren't enough custom models or something for map editors to create their own custom abilities. it's all from the game or something there's no like "awesome explosion model #1-50 unused"

i dunno so anyway back to the target sorts thing.

i've got markers getting applied. i have no idea when the markers expire. i have a target sort on my search that's supposed to be prevent redundant target selection. for whatever reason the target sort doesn't work. i've got the target sort configured with TS target marker (target), markers: 0 so presumably this means that the target sort will prefer targets with 0 markers (although there's no definitive answer here it could be just as well that it sorts against targets with 0 markers again there's not enough information).

okay so there's one enigmatic issue plaguing my ability.

then there's the question of "request percentage" and "request count" i can't even imagine what these would do.

whatever so i apply the target sort and whether i request percentage or request count or not it still doesn't work. the search still returns the same unit twice, but the search doesn't do this in any explicable pattern more like, at random, sometimes but not always, the search will return the same unit (one that is presumably marked to be not targeted), but the unit gets targeted anyway. again, this happens sometimes, but not always.

and then i have to exclude "target" from the search area or the search for the bounce effect fails. obviously the original target should be marked so why does the bounce search EVER target the target from the original launch effect? WHO KNOWS, but nevertheless, the search effect will ignore the target marker and just retarget the target of the initial launch effect (DESPITE THIS TARGET BEING MARKED).

so anyway, i tried toying with the exclude field: so i exclude the target of the original launch effect and the target of the bounce launch effect. does this work? NO

despite each target now being marked both with a target marker and with a second (redundant) target sort based on behavior count, and DESPITE THE TARGET UNIT BEING EXCLUDED FROM THE SEARCH AREA, the same fucking target will end up getting hit twice about 30% of the time. I FUCKING HATE THIS EDITOR.