Would it be possible to change the placement order of a unit?
For instance:
Let's say that you have assembled a map to a near-completed state. Let's also say that there are 10 marines in your map, and after placing those marines & saving your map, you also decide to speed up the map using the P14 scarab method (which requires the unit to be placed first, before all other units)... Is there any way to change the placement order for the marines, so that they proceed the scarab?
If this is possible but has not yet been put into code, I wouldn't mind looking deeper into it and throwing together a small utility for it.
3 ways:
1. Use
SCM Toolkit to change the first unit to a p14 scarab and then place the unit you changed again.
2. Use
uBeR@TiOn or
SCMIE to export the units section, open your map in an editor, delete all units, place the scarab, save the map, and then reimport the units.
3. Delete all units and place the scarab and recreate all the units again.
The fourth way is to extract scenario.chk from your map MPQ, and with a hex editor, and cut-paste the 36 bytes of unit structure referring to the map revealer to the beginning of the 'UNIT' section, after the entire 8-byte header.
UED77
With the new extended triggers, "god" triggers, wouldn't it also be possible to use them to change the gamespeed without the use of a p14 scarab? And you could even slow down or speed up the map even more with them right?
Yes, ToG can change gamespeed. But honestly, I don't need to change the speed -- I was just throwing in that scarab as an example. There are many other reasons why a mapper would need to alter the placement order. In my case, i'm trying to use a ToG which seems to only work if the unit is placed first.
Thank you all for your responses!