Force to attack unit

[Karzama]

Hi,

In my map I have a spell which randomly makes them target a nearby unit (ally or enemy). This is meant to be so that they start attacking their allies or it backfires and they attack you instead. This target wouldn't change until the target dies.

So anyway I was thinking of changing it so that the entire spell is about them being forced to attack specific targets but I don't know how I'd make any other orders to attack other units would be overridden.

Thoughts?

 

[Ceday]

1)You change owner of forced units to a temporary player, so their owners can't control them to stop.

2)First you order your units to attack, then you periodically order them again and again.There are 2 ways of doing this.You either need to use a periodic trigger with low timeout, or you will have another trigger that detects order.

 

[Karzama]

In the second one what would I need to detect? I know you can detect all orders but wouldn't it cause an infinite loop if they attack the target then get re-ordered to attack them via trigger constantly? How would I filter whether they are attacking their target?

 

[Ceday]

Well, you simply won't reorder if unit is again attacking the target you want.All other orders including attack will be reordered, except that one case.

 

[Karzama]

How to you check that?

 

[RobertMKD]

Store the target into a variable when the ability is cast and then check if the target of the order matches with the variable, if not, re-order your unit.