What Are Simple Units?

For simplicity, we call current units Normal Units to distinguish them from Simple Units.

Simple units are implemented from scratch, they did not share code with normal units, this means that designers cannot assume what simple units can do based on their experience working with normal units.

As a 10k-foot view, simple units have their own

• Simulation Systems
  • Moving, turning, local avoidance, collision, health, damage, loot, etc.
• Presentation Systems
  • Sprites rendering, animation rendering, playing animation clips, etc.
• Effects
  • Simple effects that can be used in effect trees that can interact with simple units

So what simple units can do?

• Limited (specially coded) interactions with normal units
• Simple Units APIs

Limited (Specially Coded) Interactions with Normal Units

We have created several Simple Effects that can be used in effect trees, those simple effects could interact with simple units.

• Simple Area Search Effect
  • Finds simple units in a certain area(supports some filters and sorting).
• Simple Damage Effect
  • Deal damage to simple unit targets
• Simple Force Effect
  • Push/pull simple unit targets
• Simple Speed Modifier Effect

Example

Say we already have a fireball effect, and we want it to impact simple units. first, we replace the fireball’s launch missile effect’s impact effect with SimpleAreaSearchEffect. Then you could set the simple area search effect’s Effect to be a SimpleDamageEffect. So when a fireball hits, simple area search effects would find nearby simple units and apply damage to those simple units through SimpleDamageEffect.