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Is is possible to reduce a unit's HP,Shield, Energy using triggers and not only setting their health percentage?

Example:
Can you do an action that does: Add 50 Hp to 2 marine in location.

Thanks People!

Make a zerglin attack or a medic appear...

Im not sure, but i think i saw somthing about adding amounts of life to units in the map making tricks & help section, try looking there

you know you could always look their urself!!! and if you onl want them to heal 50 health points you could always find out what % of their life that is.... its all math really

With triggers you can only set HP%.
You can do what Sessase said attack it or heal it.
Don't Forget Shield Battery.

im pretty sure you can set unit hp... subtract unit hp... and add unit hp... so that way you can damage if you know the %

uhhh... how does kenoli have 103 posts a day and only 7 posts??

I dont know of any way to detect how much life a unit has. (or shields or energy or resources etc etc)

kenoli you have 8 posts and then it says u have 115 posts per day... some glitch??

detecting resources is easy

detecting shield is a very painful process (same thing as hp, but more difficult)

detecting hp is liket his: have a unit go through a place where it would be dealt 1 damage (or whatever you want..the higher, the more you would have to "round"). each time it deals 1 damage, add 1 score to something (or anything similar to this). after the unit dies, you will know how much hp is on it and you can create an identical copy of it. or do other things to it, like add a certain amount of hp with the set %.

if you want to simply lower or raise the hp, use medic or attack it (only once!)

i think its using my amount of posts vs number of days, and it hasnt been a full day yet so it may be throwing it off.

I guess you could find out a unit's life that way, but it could take a while. And that way dosent seem very useful, sounds like alot of room for error too

O thanx people! ^_^
Guess I'm just thinking of impossible things.. (to do them with triggers)

"Modify Unit Hit Points"
"Modify Unit Energy"

As for adding 50 hp, you can do it once you figure out the percentages. However, you can't add more then the unit(s) have maximum with triggers. There's no other way to do it by triggers.

Me and many others have tried for ages to find ways to handle HP beyond % limitations, and the closest thing possible is to represent their HP in some "virtual" way, like with burrowed stacked units underneath them, player ownership (ala Trigger Happy D), or setting it to 1 hp and reviving it upon death as long as its HP counter (gas, mins, custom score, unit deaths, etc.) is non-zero. I think there are other ways but nothing will get you exactly the effect you want, I'm afraid.

Can you add health percentages? I thought you can only set them.. maybe i wasn't watching.

Doesn't it say:
Modify Unit Hit Points: Set to 50%.

Can the 'Set to ' be replaced by 'add' ?

No it can't. After lke 6 years of sc, i think someone would've figured that out by now.

The only chance is to try writing some code into StarForge and seeing what results appear, by changing the Set, to an Add. Likely you will have no effect, but its worth a try.

The reason for having no effect is that Starcraft has no way to understand the trigger, since the triggers in question are just an easy way to represent some difficult engine decisions for Starcraft (i won't go any further into this...) and therefore if the designers of the Engine haven't implemented the code to follow a module created by a trigger, then it will just be ignored, will not work or anything.

[A long way of saying No, it can't be Add]

If you want simple math you could just make the unit's life 100, or 1000, where 1 percent of life = 1 dmg, or 10 dmg.

Bah.. i know this lexmark, i was asking if there was a trigger to add the health instead of setting it and it has been answered. Thanks!

1 idea could be...

create a medic, make is "magic" at 1% at each 1 sec, soo... if you want 10 more hp, remove the medic at 10 sec...

but it also gains, and 1% is 2 mana. You'd be better off just giving it 4% once and leaving it for the same amount of time.