Help creating an "Ability is active" Condition.

[Blikunman]

Hey folks, I'm trying hard to make a condition/trigger for detecting if ability defense (same as human footman) is active.
I just cant make it work, my goal is to give a building the ability "defense" and if "defense" is active then do (loop of event), when is desactivated then (stop loop).

any hints for this?





thanks!

 

[Pyrogasm]

You can’t really check if it’s active on command. Instead you have to catch when it’s ordered to defend and undefend each time.

A roundabout way to query its defense state is to remove the ability from the unit. Doing so will order it to undefend if the ability was active when you removed it, then you have to re-Add the ability and order it to defend if it was active when removed.

 

[A]mun]

Couldn't you check for the current order/animation of the unit while defending?

 

[Pyrogasm]

Defend isn't an order that the unit is constantly doing. Consider that you can cast other spells while Defend is active.

 

[A]mun]

yeah you can detect the activation of defend, like shown here How to detect Defend is Cast?

so you just need to start/stop your loop accordingly

 

[Pyrogasm]

yeah you can detect the activation of defend, like shown here How to detect Defend is Cast?

You can’t really check if it’s active on command. Instead you have to catch when it’s ordered to defend and undefend each time.

 

[Devalut]

Not sure if defend has a buff or not, but, why not give your units a statless immolation/manashield, it should provide a buff enough to "denote" whether it's active or not.
When checking for "Active" units find the corresponding buff and do your actions.

 

[Blikunman]

Thanks folks, solved it via using Inmolate as base ability and checking for the buff

But another problem came to me, im opening a new thread.
Bug using abilities based on same pattern