Channeling help

[Da)sniper]

I know everyone uses the skill "Channel" to make custom skills but I have a question...What is channel? I never heard of it till I read a custom skill making tutorial... How do you make channel to work for you? And the most important...How do you make it so if you use that skill it wont go off and do its own effects? Thank you!

 

[HermanTheGibbon]

I think Channel was created by Blizzard as a basic ability with no real effects which would be easy for WE users to manipulate and create their own stuff. Anyway, to use it for making your own spells, you need to set all of Channel's values in the Object Editor to 0 or blanks or whatever, and then you will need to use triggers to get the effects you desire. This could be anything from damaging the target of the ability, to starting a cutscene. Here is a quick example for you:

• Channel to Damage
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Phsycic Attack
  • Actions
    • Unit - Kill (Target unit of ability being cast)

Phsycic Attack is an ability based off Channel, I just set all the values to 0 and that's all there is to it.

Hope that helped