Remove damage display of a unit in UI (the unit has an attack)

[Tigrick]

Hello.
Is there a simple and elegant way to remove the display of a unit's damage, so that only its armor is shown in the UI, without removing its attack, mind you.

I use Warcraft III version 1.26 (the one that was the "latest" version for many years).

 

[Pyrogasm]

It’s my understanding that 1.26 lacks most of the UI functions that would be used to do this.

 

[ThompZon]

And as far as I know, you need to set the attack to none in order for the UI to disappear without messing with it using triggers (1.31 or newer to do that).
You can make an auto-cast spell for the "attack"? (at least if it is an "enemy-only" type of unit).

 

[Tigrick]

You can make an auto-cast spell for the "attack"?

What ability would be good for that? Parasite? I know it detects nearby units of whatever target types you allow it kind of reliably. I need sth that detects nearby units as reliably as an attack would. Parasite sometimes failed, iirc, so it was only semi-reliable.

(at least if it is an "enemy-only" type of unit).

it's a building and I have hidden all its order buttons, so that's not a problem.

 

[raypack]

What ability would be good for that? Parasite? I know it detects nearby units of whatever target types you allow it kind of reliably. I need sth that detects nearby units as reliably as an attack would. Parasite sometimes failed, iirc, so it was only semi-reliable.


it's a building and I have hidden all its order buttons, so that's not a problem.

Faerie Fire seems like your best option.
Slow is next in order.

You do have to trigger the damage I guess tho

 

[Uncle]

What ability would be good for that? Parasite? I know it detects nearby units of whatever target types you allow it kind of reliably. I need sth that detects nearby units as reliably as an attack would. Parasite sometimes failed, iirc, so it was only semi-reliable.


it's a building and I have hidden all its order buttons, so that's not a problem.

Maybe try adding the Cargo Hold abilities to your unit. I know at least one of them (Orc Burrow) can be used to disarm a unit.