Help! Can Cold Arrows Target Terrain?

[wescott06]

Hey all,

New to the forums with a perplexing question. I need to have the ability Cold Arrows be able to target the ground for my new map, yet the game still gives me the "must target unit" message even AFTER I edited the ability specifying "Terrain" as an allowable target. Does anyone have an answer or workaround for this problem?

Thanks,
wescott06

 

[ForeverBeADragon]

Target ground? So who will take damages and be slowed?

 

[wescott06]

@ForeverBeADragon: The idea is to have Cold Arrows be able to target terrain in addition to units so that the player can either hit units or freeze the patch of ground they aim at (i.e. turn the terrain to ice using a trigger.)

In other news, I've tried this with other spells and gotten the same result-- it seems like the Terrain target option just doesn't work, period. Is Blizzard playing a cruel joke on us or something?

 

[ForeverBeADragon]

@ForeverBeADragon: The idea is to have Cold Arrows be able to target terrain in addition to units so that the player can either hit units or freeze the patch of ground they aim at (i.e. turn the terrain to ice using a trigger.)

In other news, I've tried this with other spells and gotten the same result-- it seems like the Terrain target option just doesn't work, period. Is Blizzard playing a cruel joke on us or something?

All of the auto cast spell are Unit-Target or Instant-Cast. If you want a spell likes your idea, you need to use non-auto-cast spell.

 

[defskull]

A spell which can do 2 methods; Icing Terrains | Freezing Enemy Units

Impossible.

Unless it is from Channel.
Which you can detect it's a terrain when you Target Ground and detects it as unit when you Target Unit.

 

[wescott06]

Well, at least there's an "unless." Thanks for the help guys!

 

[ResidentV]

wouldn't it be possible if there was a dummyunit attached to the hero to do ground attacks for him?