teleport help

[fuzz579]

hi I want to make a custom teleport ability ie:my unit teleports from one deep water tile to another deep water tile that it is not connected to I have this but it doesn't work:

#define ABILITY_WATERPORT
[teleport]
id=waterport
name= _ "waterport"
name_inactive= _ "waterport"
description= _ "waterport"
description_inactive= _ "waterport"
affect_self=yes
[filter_self]
[filter_location]
terrain=Wo
[/filter_location]
[/filter_self]
[/teleport]
#enddef

I am testing it on the grim spawn from war of chaos and this is the section that defines abilitys:

unit_description= _ "A creature spawned to be agile and cunning, the grim spawn is small and physically weak, however it
is able to strike precisely in order to damage and weaken muscles, and is incredibley fast and agile making it a difficult target to
strike."
[abilities]
{ABILITY_SWAMP_KNOWLEDGE}
{ABILITY_WATERPORT}
[/abilities]
{DEFENSE_ANIM "Afflicted/grimspawn-death1.png" "Afflicted/grimspawn.png" sound=hiss-hit.wav }
die_sound=hiss-die.wav

[AI]

That's because [teleport] doesn't have that feature, it's on the "good idea" list though.

[turin]

What, so does [teleport] actually only work with villages even though the syntax suggests otherwise?

[Ken_Oh]

Yeah, I wasn't able to make teleport work with anything other than vills.

[fuzz579]

well thats lame ill have to do something else. thanks!

[fuzz579]

hi I realize that this is now an old thread but this is relevant: I was wondering weather or not this issue (no custom teleport) has been fixed/changed in 1.6? thanks for the reply.

[Gambit]

Well the quickest way to find out would be to try it. But no I don't think it has.

[Horus2]

Necromancy for a reason. Teleporting just keep causing problems...

My problem might be blatantly obvious, but i searched every teleport-related thread and i couldn't find the answer.
I tried to give the ABILITY_TELEPORT to a custom unit and expected to work like on Silver Mage. Instead, custom unit was capable of entering and exiting unoccupied and enemy villages as well. I found this very strange, because Silver Mage uses the same ABILITY_TELEPORT and there's no further filters in its unit file either. Instead, it's definitely in the abilities.cfg:

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...
            [source]
                terrain=*^V*
                owner_side=$teleport_unit.side
                [not]
                    [filter]
                        [not]
                            id=$teleport_unit.id
                        [/not]
                    [/filter]
                [/not]
            [/source]
...

How could that not working on other units? Many thanks.

[Anonymissimus]

Make sure to put that code into the [unit_type]. Or use delayed_...=yes if using an [object].

[Horus2]

Make sure to put that code into the [unit_type]. Or use delayed_...=yes if using an [object].

Thank you, that was the key indeed.

[Limabean]

Another thread necro, also for a decent reason I think.

I'm also having trouble with {ABILITY_TELEPORT}. I am aware that delayed_variable_substitution=yes is required when adding the ability with an object. However, it doesn't seem to be recognized when I use it inside a unit modifications tag as seen below.

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[unit]
type=Ghoul
side=$monster_side
x=$x1
y=$y1
role=guardian
[modifications]
        {TRAIT_LOYAL}

                        [object]
                          silent=yes
                          delayed_variable_substitution=yes
                          [effect]
                            apply_to=new_ability
                            [abilities]
                            {ABILITY_TELEPORT}
                            [/abilities]
                          [/effect]
                        [/object]
[/modifications]
[/unit]

The unit is able to teleport between all villages including enemy and unowned villages. The is especially frustrating because in the very same scenario I add teleport to a different unit using the exact same object code and it works fine. The only difference is that in that case it was applied using a right click menu rather than a unit modification.

Any suggestions?

[trewe]

Any suggestions?

Instead (or additionally) of delayed_variable_substitution insert it literally

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[set_variables]
    name=new_ability
    [literal]
        {ABILITY_TELEPORT}
    [/literal]
[/set_variables]

[unit]
    #...
    [modifications]
        [object]
            # blah
            [effect]
                apply_to=new_ability
                [insert_tag]
                    name=abilities
                    variable=new_ability.abilities
                [/insert_tag]
            [/effect]
        [/object]
    [/modifications]
[/unit]

[Limabean]

Instead (or additionally) of delayed_variable_substitution insert it literally

Unfortunately no luck. The result is the same.