Allowing Units to Use Items

[Crazy Cow]

Hello fellow Hivers and those of you who havn't registered yet.
I am about to ask a newb question. I am actually suprised this hasn't been asked before, as searches for other threads with the same question have given me nothing.
As everyone knows, normal units in melee maps can hold but not use items, but I have seen maps that allow regular units to use items. I, however, have failed horribly to figure out how they did it, and would like to know how so that I can do so. Any help would be greatly appreciated and rewarded with reputation.

 

[Frunck]

Are you sure you checked the Actively Used box in item and gave it an ability?

 

[Crazy Cow]

Just any item, like a potion or a scroll. I'm not talking about custom ones.

 

[Garfield1337]

Go to Ability section in object editor and find Unit Inventory ability,then just tick Data - Can Use Items as true

 

[SlayerII]

Simply give them the inventory ability heros have.
But care... if a unit with such an ability takes a foliant of strenght or anything which permanetly incrase a attribute, wc3 will crash.

 

[Crazy Cow]

Ok, thank you all.

 

[Reaper51]

or you can make your unit into a hero and hide interface icon / death message / hero minimap display.
by doing this you can make your units use items, have exp, and attributes

 

[andreasaspenberg]

some items that add permanent effects to stats do work on units. the manual of health for example.