Buff Problems

[Shoto]

Gah. Why do Warcraft III editor hate me?

I've made a ability with matching buff, based on Unholy Aura. The problem is the icon won't show up in the status field 95% of the time. Any idea what might be causing this?
Edit: The targets allowed is: Self, Structure, Vulnerable, Invulnerable

 

[Baintastic]

maybe check the range of the aura or make sure that your unit fits the "Targets Allowed" field.

Is the buff just based on Unholy Aura? or is the ability that applies the buff also based on Unholy Aura?

 

[GhostThruster]

Are the units invisible? I've seen this problem in the NE campaign in RoC, where Tyrande's Trueshot Aura doesn't appear when the Night Elves were invisible.

 

[defskull]

How come the unit can be Vulnerable and Invulnerable... at the same time ?
Try unchecking one of those

 

[GhostThruster]

Nearly all spells have Invulnerable, Vulnerable. It doesn't mean the unit must be Invulnerable AND Vulnerable, it mean Invulnerable OR Vulnerable. I doubt that's the problem.

 

[defskull]

The unit is a building, yes ?
Building can have ability, yes ?
Are you sure that your hero is a... BUILDING ?
Building that has stats, cool

 

[GhostThruster]

I can't be bothered having this discussion again with you defskull. So, if you're gonna get upset, please alert me with VMs. (Look at this)

Now, it would affect the hero EVEN if somehow he managed to make the hero into a building by accident, "The targets allowed is: Self, Structure, Vulnerable, Invulnerable", so again, I doubt that's the problem.

 

[Shoto]

The range of the aura is 900. the units ain't invisible or anything like that.
What's weird is that the effect applies (the aura starts showing under my hero (who isn't a building)) but the buff icon won't show up in the status field.
The ability is based on the Unholy Aura.
The buff is based on the Unholy Aura buff.

 

[defskull]

If your hero is not a building, how would this spell affect the unit ?
Because it is stated "Structure" for your Targets Allowed

 

[Kino]

Afaik adding Structure makes it target buildings in addition to normal units and not buildings only.

But you could try it.

 

[GhostThruster]

Ohhhh, so you're trying to say that the target should be 'Ground', not 'Structure'? Yes, now defskull may be right, the may not appear because you've set the targets of the aura to Structure(which works for buildings), not Ground (which works for ground units).
The reason why your hero has it, is because you also added 'Self'. So, add 'Ground' to your targets and see if that works.

 

[GhostThruster]

Lol, same time post, apologies.

Also, structures aren't supposed to show stats, as far as I know, just in case you didn't know that.

 

[Shoto]

they aren't? darn it. my hero ain't a structure though, it should show at him. well, the point of the aura is that i want it to apply to himself and his Lava Spawn-based units (dragons), but noone else... as structure screws my idea, any idea what i might try instead? i can change all units to be able to attack air if neccesary, but i'd prefer not to as i got a BIG bunch of units...
Edit: i mean i can change the Lava Spawn/Dragons "targeted as" to air, and then change all units to be able to attack air. But would the aura apply to both him and the dragons if "allowed targets" were Air, Self?

 

[Kino]

Or you could make it target self only and give the spawns the ability on their own.

 

[Shoto]

Or you could make it target self only and give the spawns the ability on their own.

No, because units can't have hero abilities. and if i would make a similiar unit ability it wouldn't scale when the hero learnt next level of the aura.

 

[Shoto]

i decided to make it apply like a normal aura. thanx for all help though.