Detect Casting Player

[Tonex]

I have a building on say Player 2 that has the "Select Hero" ability and some random spell. Thus, when you, Player 1, run a Hero up to the building, you can select the building and cast the spell. What I want to know is if you can tell which player casts the spell, supposing that there are several players all with heroes who run up to the building so they can cast the ability. A specific example would be asking if one could find out which player casts Reveal off of a Goblin Laboratory.

 

[deathismyfriend]

I believe if the unit is owned by player 2 then it will return with player 2 casting the ability. U can detect who selects it and make sure the player that selected it is in range. Also if u cast the spell on ur unit then detect target unit of ability being cast with a unit casts ability as the event.

 

[ap0calypse]

@deathismyfriend: multiple players can have the same building selected.

Instead of making it an ability, would it be possible to make it sell a unit/item instead?
Then you can check for the owner of the sold unit and do your ability-stuff in that trigger.

Another way to do this is to create the same ability X times (where X is the amount of players that can cast the ability).
Put each of these abilities in a spell book, and disable that spell book for all players who shouldn't be able to cast the spell.
This requires some more work and creates multiple objects, but it definitely works.

 

[deathismyfriend]

Ik it can cause a problem with multiple players selecting the same building that's y I said check if the players unit is in range and I mentioned it can bug still.

 

[ap0calypse]

Ik it can cause a problem with multiple players selecting the same building that's y I said check if the players unit is in range and I mentioned it can bug still.

Well, you certainly didn't say that it can still bug, even after the within-range check (at least not that I can see).
Doesn't matter, though.

 

[deathismyfriend]

Ya I noticed that I thought I did lol I edited my last post.

 

[Tonex]

@ap0calypse Well the purchase unit/item will work, but I was just hoping that I wouldn't have to have that little stock indication number.

@deathismyfriend Yeah, it would still bug, so I won't use it.

 

[deathismyfriend]

if u download or create an icon i believe u could get rid of the little integer but im not entirely sure. Or at least make it almost impossible to see

 

[Tonex]

But then I want other icons to have the integer

 

[deathismyfriend]

the other icons will still have there numbers just not the ones that u change. If an icon allows u to hide the number lol.

 

[Tonex]

Sadly, the integer is placed on top of the icon. Also, it turns out that the Spell Book solution does not work.

 

[deathismyfriend]

u can try to make an icon that hides the number. make the area were the number is the same color as the number.

 

[Tonex]

There's a box around the number that blocks part of the icon, but I'm fine with using units even with the integer. Or I'll have 6 separate shops for each player all layered together and have some trigger that clears up which one is selected.

 

[ap0calypse]

Sadly, the integer is placed on top of the icon. Also, it turns out that the Spell Book solution does not work.

My bad: you should locally remove the spell book from the player with the shared building.

In case Neutral Passive owns the shop, then you should use a GetLocalPlayer()-check and remove the spell book-ability (for Neutral Passive) within that block for all players that should not be able to use that ability.
Still has the drawback of having to select the spell book first, then the ability (which might even be more bothersome than the stock integer).

 

[Almia]

I haven't read the other post so:

Triggering Player.

 

[ap0calypse]

I haven't read the other post so:

Triggering Player.

But did you read the initial post?
"Triggering Player" will return the owner of the casting unit, not the player casting it.

 

[Almia]

oh sry