getLife() confusion

[kontiuka]

I'm trying to use this function to check if a unit is dead. As I understand it, it should return <= 1.0 if the unit is dead. I killed a unit and checked the return value and it gave me 32. Before I killed it, the function returned 3.

 

Also, does this function work with air units? Everytime I try to check the life of an air unit that has crashed, I get lua error "Unit doesn't exist".

[piXel496]

Objects that are destroyed (dead) are gone or become a new (burned out casco) object so there original body does not exist anymore.

 

Maybe something like this could help:

if someObject == nil or someObject:getLife() <= 1 then

etc..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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