A way to stop casting of ability?

[Rugarus]

Is there an action to cancel a Hero's casting of an ability?


Basically I've got my Hero unit, he has an ability that spawns a minion unit to attack. While this minion is alive (Has 5 second expiry time) I don't want the player to have access to his Hero.

The spawned minion unit has an ability (Cancel) when used kills the spawned unit. Basically allows the player at any time to kill the spawned unit and go back to his Hero.

But the ability has 'Data follow through time' It's set at 5 seconds. So if the triggering unit dies the hero is still in a casting/summoning animation and can't be moved.

Thanks.

 

[FeelsGoodMan]

Set "Follow through time" to 0 seconds, and use the pause/unpause function instead.

 

[Lt_Hawkeye]

Or, you can temporally disable or remove the ability to remove the following up time pause effect then put it back afterwards.

 

[Uncle]

Is there an action to cancel a Hero's casting of an ability?


Basically I've got my Hero unit, he has an ability that spawns a minion unit to attack. While this minion is alive (Has 5 second expiry time) I don't want the player to have access to his Hero.

The spawned minion unit has an ability (Cancel) when used kills the spawned unit. Basically allows the player at any time to kill the spawned unit and go back to his Hero.

But the ability has 'Data follow through time' It's set at 5 seconds. So if the triggering unit dies the hero is still in a casting/summoning animation and can't be moved.

Thanks.

Since you're using the "Disable Other Abilities" option on Channel this makes your hero immune to stuns/silences/disables and makes it unusable. I wonder, is this your actual desired effect? It sounds like you want to turn Disable Other Abilities off and make this ability work like any normal channel ability (like blizzard for example).

If you turn off "Disable Other Abilities", then you can just order the Hero to Stop.

Here's the triggers. You'll need to store the Hero and Summon as variables:

When your summon dies we order the hero to stop channeling.

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  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Dies
  • Conditions
    • (Triggering unit) Equal to YourSummon
  • Actions
    • Unit - Order YourHero to Stop

When you stop channeling the ability we check if your summon is alive, and if it is we kill it.

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Stops casting an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to YourSummonAbility
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (YourSummon is alive) Equal to True
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Kill YourSummon
      • Else - Actions

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Otherwise, if you want the Hero to be "paused" aka "Disable Other Abilities = True", which I advise against as pausing units seems to cause a lot of undesired outcomes, you will want to instead pause/unpause your Hero through triggers.

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  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to YourSummonAbility
  • Actions
    • Unit - Pause (Triggering unit)

Then unpause your hero instead of ordering it to stop in the first trigger. If you choose this pause/unpause option make sure to set "Disable Other Abilities" to false, since the triggers already do this for us.