[General] Can I order a unit to cast spell by ID?

[stan0033]

Is there a way to order a unit to cast a spell by ID? Because the spells in <order unit targeting a unit> are very limited. And I question myself, what do I do now?

 

[deathismyfriend]

Yes there is a function in jass to do it.

I do not believe there is one in GUI.

 

[stan0033]

what is it?

 

[deathismyfriend]

not on pc. You can find it easily if you have JNGP. Or by searching internet.

 

[DD_legionTN]

native IssueTargetOrderById takes unit whichUnit, integer order, widget targetWidget returns boolean

native IssuePointOrderById takes unit whichUnit, integer order, real x, real y returns boolean

native IssueImmediateOrderById takes unit whichUnit, integer order returns boolean

If I remember right it should be these functions.

 

[deathismyfriend]

Those should be it.

 

[stan0033]

and where in these lines do you indicate the ID?

 

[deathismyfriend]

Where it says integer order

 

[DD_legionTN]

ID indicate the base order ID, each order "attack", "stop" etc has a specific order ID.

Spells have order ID too, but all are fixed and cannot be changed except Channel ability.
( correct me if I'm wrong )

 

[deathismyfriend]

The Ids you use for the above are the Ability Ids. You are thinking of the spell order ids which are strings.

attack / stop / smart / hold and the others are based off of integers.

 

[stan0033]

like this?

• Custom script: native IssueTargetOrderById takes unit udg_Dummy1, ACsi, widget targetWidget returns boolean

 

[deathismyfriend]

like this?

• Custom script: native IssueTargetOrderById takes unit udg_Dummy1, ACsi, widget targetWidget returns boolean

No that is the native declaration.
To use it you do this.

• Custom script: call IssueTargetOrderById( udg_Dummy1, 'ACsi', udg_TargetUnit)

 

[WaterKnight]

The Ids you use for the above are the Ability Ids. You are thinking of the spell order ids which are strings.

attack / stop / smart / hold and the others are based off of integers.

No, those functions use order ids. And every type of order possesses a numeric id, the string variant is optional.

Units are controlled via orders and if they have two abilities using the same one, they collide. But the command fields are rather limited, you should not have too many abilities on a unit at once.

 

[stan0033]

Hmm, I tried it, but it's not working, then I remembered that Silence,which i want to cast via the dummy, is targeting points, not unit. In that case how do you make this line in custom script? and the positions x, y I want to point the position of the targetofabilityBeingCast( GetSpellTargetUnit() )

native IssuePointOrderById takes unit whichUnit, integer order, real x, real y returns boolean

 

[DD_legionTN]

• Actions
  • Set Temp_Unit = Dummy Unit
  • Set Temp_Point = (Target point of ability being cast)
  • Set x = (X of Temp_Point)
  • Set y = (Y of Temp_Point)
  • Custom script: call IssuePointOrderById(udg_Temp_Unit, 'ACsi', udg_x, udg_y)
  • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_Temp_Point)

I think it should be like this.

 

[PurgeandFire]

@stan: Well, you can't issue 'ACsi'. The 'Id' is just a number equivalent to the order string (in your case, "Silence" corresponds to the order ID of 852592. You can view a list of them here: Order Ids)

So you can replace 'ACsi' in DD_legionTN's trigger with 852592 if you want. Otherwise, you can use:
call IssuePointOrder(udg_Temp_Unit, "silence", udg_x, udg_y)
(you would put that in place of the line in DD_legionTN's trigger above).

 

[stan0033]

in the editor there are more than one silence, how do I know what spell is this ID? and btw the dummy is nto casting the silence on the target, see, I checked if the dummy is there, if the dummy is correctly set, if it has the spell, if the custom script is correct, i turned off collision for dummy, checked if the cast range of spell is 99999, not casting.

how do you write this in script? i wrote it just like

• Custom script: call IssuePointOrderById(udg_Dummy1, 852592, udg_x, udg_y)