How to make invisible units to stay invisible when channeling/casting a spell?

[kaiserimpact]

Hi all forum helpers. This may be a noobie question to some of you. Well, the situation goes like this, when an invisible unit cast a spell, its invisibility will be broken. So my question is, how to make permanent invisible units remains invisible when casting a spell such as the ghost in starcraft II where he stay invisible when launching a nuclear strike.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Bannar]

Add Permanent Invisibility ability to your unit, just set Duration in both fields to 0. Your unit can channel/attack/cast spells and still be invisible. Rawcode of ability 'Apiv'.

You can add/ remove ability via:

call UnitAddAbility (unit, 'Apiv')
call UnitRemoveAbility (unit, 'Apiv')

Just set variable unit to given unit you want to be permanently invisible.

 

[kaiserimpact]

Add Permanent Invisibility ability to your unit, just set Duration in both fields to 0. Your unit can channel/attack/cast spells and still be invisible. Rawcode of ability 'Apiv'.

You can add/ remove ability via:

call UnitAddAbility (unit, 'Apiv')
call UnitRemoveAbility (unit, 'Apiv')

Just set variable unit to given unit you want to be permanently invisible.

thanks alot! and sorry that i'm a noob.

 

[Svendviking]

Is there a way for this to work with wind walk without jass?

 

[Gaegamel]

I would try to change the "permanent invisibility"'s delay (before you go invisible) to 0 seconds and give it to that unit. It should work then.

 

[Bannar]

@Svendviking you dont need jass at all.
You can either add permanent ability via object editor or (what enables you manipulating dynamicaly) add/remove it via trigger -> gives possibility to add invisibility as temporary buff, not as permanet skill. Like: your caster goes channel - you add invisibility; caster ends channeling - remove the sbility.

In GUI it's:

• Unit - Add Yourability to (Triggering unit)
• Unit - Remove Yourability to (Triggering unit)

Or for efficiency:

• Custom script: call UnitAddAbility(udg_YourUnit, AbilitId)
• Custom script: call UnitRemoveAbility(udg_YourUnit, AbilitId)

Ability Id you can get from Object Editor -> Ability section click Ctrl + D.
Rawdata (aka Id) of all abilityies will replace thier name field.