Defend Ability

[LittleBigApple]

Hello everyone!
The Defend ability isn't working on "Starts the ability of an effect". Is there any way to execute a trigger when a unit casts Defend?

 

[IcemanBo]

Try with order "defend".

 

[Nichilus]

Toggled abilities like Defend, Magic Defense, Immolation, etc. don't work via Starts the effect of an ability but as IcemanBo wrote, via an order ("a unit is issued an order...")

That is probably because those abilities posses two orders - one for when the ability is activated and the other when it's deactivated.

 

[Map Designer]

to add to that, I think each order of these abilities is some string i.e. some letters that you cant select from a drop down menu but rather right it yourself. not sure though

 

[Nichilus]

yes, orders are strings. E.g. 'immolate' and 'unimmolate' for Immolation iirc.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

yes, orders are strings. E.g. 'immolate' and 'unimmolate' for Immolation iirc.

That's not quite correct. In fact, orders are integers. The order strings get converted to said integers if you use the string based functions.

 

[Nichilus]

orders are strings afaik, order id is order converted to integer... at least that's how I understood the difference between them.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

orders are strings afaik, order id is order converted to integer... at least that's how I understood the difference between them.

There are orders that have an ID, but no string, like moving inventory items around.