Turning Alarm Generation Off

[darwin]

I have an ability that summons a dummy unit. That dummy unit is then ordered to taunt. It works fine with one exception:

I would like the dummy unit (which belongs to the player) to not generate an alarm when attacked. I don't want it to say, "our sacred grove is being desecrate" or "we're under attack" or whatever it says.

There is a trigger action called "turn alarm Generation Off" but it apparently doesn't work at all. It has a requirement in the world editor which says "only works on buildings" so I made the dummy unit a building. I made it targeted as a building, and I clicked the "is a building" trait in the object editor. As far as I can tell, it's a building. But the action still does nothing.

How do I shut this unit up?

 

[Frotty]

Add the Locust ability.

 

[defskull]

You have to state first, what is that dummy's purpose ?
Is it to act as a tanker that divides the attraction of the creeps' aggro ?

 

[darwin]

You have to state first, what is that dummy's purpose ?
Is it to act as a tanker that divides the attraction of the creeps' aggro ?

I've found a work around (I just made it neutral passive), but in case others find this and are curious, perhaps we can figure it out anyway.

The point of the unit was to serve as an invisible "distraction" that taunted nearby units into attacking it. I couldn't add locust because other units need to be able to attack it.

The only problem now is that friendly units will attack the distraction as well; since it's neutral passive it will work on the casting unit.

 

[gorillabull]

well if your only problem is the alarm sound then go to gameplay constants and change its interval to something like 99999999999999999
its called attack notification and its one of the first lines
there is also a minimum range so change that too

 

[defskull]

How about adding 100% of evasion to the dummy ?
That is, if you don't mind the "miss" floating text of course.

 

[gorillabull]

you can change the "miss" text to " " (nothing) in game interface

 

[defskull]

In case if he has another evasion-like ability in the map, it's a big no because it will collide with another ability with gameplay constants, you got that ?

 

[gorillabull]

yea i never thought of that well just use whatever suits you best

 

[darwin]

Lots of good ideas here, thanks. I'm just confused as to why the alarm generation trigger doesn't work. It's all set now though. +rep

 

[defskull]

Just curious, what do you decided to do ?

 

[darwin]

Just curious, what do you decided to do ?

I made the unit neutral passive. It now works on the caster's own units, but that not a problem.