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With some minor adjustments, that ended up working great.

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Adept's Psionic Transfer ability teleports the adept to the shadow after a certain time period. How would one make an ability that can make the adept teleport to the shadow before the time period expires?

I saw there are two behaviors on the adept, one for the shadow. There are expire effects on these behaviors and that is what makes the adept teleport after the time period expires.

One of these is applied to the clone I believe, so how would one reference the clone? Would I need to use a search area effect?

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All good. Just my curiosity. 

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For one of my effects, I need to determine if the target unit is at the same height level as the ground/caster unit. I was looking through the validators and saw Unit Compare Height and Z. Does anybody know how this works? Or is there an alternative? I am completely lost looking at those fields.

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I have a range of 0 set.

Ah, that makes sense. Basically, what is in <> just takes the signature of the function you pass. I kind of figured you would have to do it manually like.

bool Equal(int, int);

funcref<bool, int, int> ref;

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Ah, thank you so much DrSuperEvil. That explains a lot actually.

I still have the problem but now the distance is exactly the inner radius too big for the placement unit. Based on some tests I have run, it appears that the placement test is not centered upon the point. The center of the region for placement test is offset from the point by radius distance. So I believe I need to be offsetting where I scan for units by unitPlacementInnerRadius- y-axis relative. I do find this odd however that it checks placement forward instead. I think this is what is happening but I need to run some more tests.

Here is an illustration of what I have found so far.

-Edit: Yup that is exactly what is happening and accounting for it seems to be working  (within a 0.15 range discrepancy) - I wonder what could account for this.

https://pasteboard.co/H0RFrdv.png

Thanks for the help so far, I appreciate your willingness to assist. I almost have it working now. Just had to do one small part in the triggers for herc.

The problem I am having now is accurately determining if a unit is what causes placement to fail. I guess I do not understand how the placement test works.

I would assume that if distancebetweenpoints(placementpoint, unitpos) <= placementrad + unitrad then it did cause it. But, in my tests placement can fail and the unit is quite a bit further than that from the placementpoint. How exactly does placement work? Or, is there a way around this?

I know that you can do arrayref and structref in galaxy, I assume you can do function references/pointers too. Does anyone know the syntax?

It appears that the placement location validator is not using the placement footprint of the missile ammo unit. It is using the radius for some reason. Is this normal?

I was able to get most of the slow-medium speed missiles working.  The enumerate area and function validators worked great.

I am having difficulty with HERC though. It just has insane speed. One would probably need to search for obstacles at cast time and redirect then if necessary... is this possible to do? (Ideally one would need to use a loop and incrementally increase the range to test for placement up until the distance from the caster to target)

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Gotcha. 

Shouldn't it also work to change the placement check layer of the placement location footprint to avoid something that I can set by doodads and not by units? (Ex: no burrow or near resources) The problem I have run into though is that units seem to not allow placement even with those custom footprints. Is there a way to change this? (there are no footprints set for the units; I am guessing that the ground pathing defaults all these to be applied to the cell the unit occupies?)

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get the calibration working quite right by moving the validator to another effect. However, I was able to get it mostly right by creating another persistent effect to check the front of my unit for placement ahead.

My question now is: Is there a way to determine what is causing the placement test to fail?  Perhaps an enumerate area validator from source unit to target point would work? I know this only detects units, but if the placement test failed and the enumerate area validator failed then it must be a doodad? Or maybe it would be easier to use different pathing flags for each kind of unit? Maybe I am overcomplicating this...

Alright, I was able to get the periodic offset working for the redirect missile effect, I had forgotten to change the location from caster unit to target point.

I am not sure I comprehend what you said about putting the validator in the effect after the create persistent. The validator should be in a periodic effect right? This changes when the periodic effect checks for placement, however, this should not change where it checks for placement location. I'm thinking that maybe I could create another persistent effect for checking placement in front of the unit? Perhaps I simply don't understand. Could you clarify what you mean?

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Okay, makes sense. 

Another issue that I have now run into is that I think some of the missiles move too fast for the periodic effect to handle. 0.0625s doesnt seem to be enough for the placement test. (Though it may be possible if I chained multiple validators together?)

I am assuming that the Range field on the placement location validator means that it CAN be placed within a radius of range from the unit/point? This is how it seems to behave in my tests so far.

A trigger solution is probably possible as well but is something I would like to avoid.

Really, what I need is a way to make missiles of any speed be able to collide with 1x1 pathing blocker doodads.

I apologize that was kind of long.

Okay, I am getting closer. I have a few problems though.

1. If the PlacementLocationValidator.Range= 0, then the validator always fails because you cannot place a unit on top of itself.

    For the missile ammo unit, I have: Movement: Pathing Footprint - Placement Footprint 1x1 (No Build)

2.  I am not sure how I set up the offset to be just behind the unit. Is the periodic offset the field you were referring to? Is this relative to the facing of the unit?

Here is what I tried(this seems to create the effect far away from the unit in some strange direction):

----Create Persistent Effect----

Target: Location + (None):Source Unit:Unknown

Target: Location Offset - End + (None):Source Point:Unknown

Target: Location Offset - Start + (None):Source Point:Unknown

Effect: Periodic Offsets^ + ((-1,0,0))

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