How do I choose my unit's target - not attack

[Epicentre]

Hello.

Sometimes I want to choose a unit's target but without using "Attack".

For example I have a fatboy moving from point A to point B. Some enemies attacks it. I still want a "Move to point B" order on top of my fatboy order queue, so I won't issue an "Attack" order that would clear it. But I still want to choose his target. The need is obvious: I want my fatboy to shoot in the middle of the pack, not on that isolated scout far away from anything else.

I couldn't find any shortcut or script to do that. Any help out there?

[Petah]

set the unit to hold fire, then set it to attack the enemy/location

that way it wont attack anything else except what you told it to

[Jazcash]

Hello.

Sometimes I want to choose a unit's target but without using "Attack".

For example I have a fatboy moving from point A to point B. Some enemies attacks it. I still want a "Move to point B" order on top of my fatboy order queue, so I won't issue an "Attack" order that would clear it. But I still want to choose his target. The need is obvious: I want my fatboy to shoot in the middle of the pack, not on that isolated scout far away from anything else.

I couldn't find any shortcut or script to do that. Any help out there?

Yup, I wanted this for a long time too, then Dizekat made a delightful little widget that allows you to insert commands into your queue without breaking the queue using spacebar. I simply set my unit(s) to move to the position I want them, then insert the attack commands in there and they go ahead and attack and move at the same time ^_^

If you do it right, you can even use this widget to allow your com to dgun and move at the same time too without using fps mode :)

[Epicentre]

Yup, I wanted this for a long time too, then Dizekat made a delightful little widget that allows you to insert commands into your queue without breaking the queue using spacebar. I simply set my unit(s) to move to the position I want them, then insert the attack commands in there and they go ahead and attack and move at the same time ^_^

If you do it right, you can even use this widget to allow your com to dgun and move at the same time too without using fps mode :)

Mmm sounds good. I found it and will give it a try. I'll give a feedback ASAP.

FEEDBACK on that widget: the thing it does is something I already scripted by myself. But not what I'd like: if I insert an attack order at queue[1] then my fatboy stops moving while attacking the enemy, and will also follow it through the whole map if it's a scout.

What I really want is to designate the target for the "Fire at Will" state while my unit is still walking to it's destination. I already browsed tons of lua scripts to find this, I think it's something that should be implemented in Spring. A feedback function maybe like:
widget:ChooseTargetForWeapon(myUnitId, myUnitWeaponId, targetUID)

Also anyway thank you for your help, much appreciated.

[yuritch]

This sounds like something that should be done game-side (but afaik no engine changes are required, this functionality can be done in gadgets + unit scripts - there are some settings which change targeting priority 'on the fly'). Widgets alone can't do such things.

[Pxtl]

Iirc, even games can't implement this without horrible hacking. We went over it before. It needs to be an engine-feature.

However (and this may be out-of-date info) units *do* prefer targeting their last attack target. So if you attack something and then move, they'll give prioritiy to shooting the thing you told them to "attack".