SC2Mapster

I'm trying to make a trigger that fires when a player brings 3 OR MORE units into a region. I want the trigger to kill just 3 units and create a unit for the triggering player in the players assigned region. I have everything working except for the 3 "or more" part. The trigger works fine as long as it is ONLY 3 units in the active region. Here is the trigger:

Buy Marine 
    Events
        Unit - Any Unit Enters Buy Marine
    Local Variables
    Conditions
        (Number of Living units in (Any units in Buy Marine owned by player (Triggering player) matching Excluded: Missile, Dead, Hidden, with at most Any Amount)) == 3
    Actions
        Unit Group - Pick each unit in (Any units in Buy Marine owned by player (Triggering player) matching Excluded: Missile, Dead, Hidden, with at most Any Amount) and do (Actions)
            Actions
                Unit Group - Add (Picked unit) to Buy marine
                Unit - Kill (Unit (Number of Living units in Buy marine) from Buy marine)
                Unit Group - Remove all units from Buy marine
        Unit - Create 1 Marine > 3 for player (Triggering player) at (Center of Player unit spawn[(Triggering player)]) facing 270.0 degrees (No Options)

So the condition would have to be >= 3 but how can i get the action to kill just 3 units? Or how can i get the trig to pick JUST 3 units?

Thanks, any help is appreciated!

@copperfront: Go

Missed the last part, yeh >= 3.

Unit - Kill (Unit (Number of Living units in Buy marine) from Buy marine)

Is there no way to change 'Number of Living' to a unit type check and then tell it to effect 3 of those type, sorry haven't got the editor open so I can't check for specific commands.

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@copperfront: Go

Conditions (Number of Living units in (Any units in Buy Marine owned by player (Triggering player) matching Excluded: Missile, Dead, Hidden, with at most Any Amount)) == 3

Surely chaning the == to >= 3?

if i do this, it will kill all the units that enter the region. I want it just to kill only 3 :(

@copperfront: Go

No he's right. In the trigger conditions change it to >= 3.

But in the Pick Each Unit in group loop, see where it says "At Most", change that to 3. It will stop at 3 units.

Unit Group - Pick each unit in (Any units in Buy Marine owned by player (Triggering player) matching Excluded: Missile, Dead, Hidden, with at most [b]Any Amount[/b])

^ That.

@copperfront: Go

Not done much with the editor myself So this is purely speculation based on what prgramming I do know.

Can you not just create a loop set to repeat 3 times with a unit type check so you don't accidently kill anything but marines?

something like:

void libNtve_gf_Repeat(int count)

Repeats an action set a specified number of times.

Found this in the Galaxy / Triggers / Repeat section, this will repeat a kill action 3 times for you, all you need to do is use the bool UnitFilterMatch(unit inUnit, int inPlayer, unitfilter inFilter) filter to make sure it's killing a marine instead of all living units. that SHOULD work.

Quote from Mephs: Go

@copperfront: Go

No he's right. In the trigger conditions change it to >= 3.

But in the Pick Each Unit in group loop, see where it says "At Most", change that to 3. It will stop at 3 units.

Unit Group - Pick each unit in (Any units in Buy Marine owned by player (Triggering player) matching Excluded: Missile, Dead, Hidden, with at most [b]Any Amount[/b])

^ That.

Quote from PurpleFantum: Go

@copperfront: Go

Not done much with the editor myself So this is purely speculation based on what prgramming I do know.

Can you not just create a loop set to repeat 3 times with a unit type check so you don't accidently kill anything but marines?

something like:

X ==3 Loop bool UnitFilterMatch(unit inUnit, int inPlayer, unitfilter inFilter) If True Kill(Last Unit) X -1 Until X ==0

obviously this won't work since I don't know the specific syntax, but the code principle is sound.

Thanks alot guys. Didn't see the "At most any amout" line there, totally missed it!!

I feel dumb... :( thanks again