[Solved] Help wtih adding a spell to an image (Spell Book involved)

[Skeedish]

I've made a "lightning shield" ability using triggers, "spell book" and "permanent immolation" so that only enemy units take damage from the lightning shield. It seems to work perfectly except when cast on images - when it is cast on an image no lightning shield ability occurs for the target unit.

I've messed around and it seems that abilities can't be added to images (using GUI at least) so the problem is that even though the ability won't work when targeting an image, the player can still target an image to no effect and therefore "waste" a cast. There doesn't seem to be any "cannot target image" option in the "targets allowed" box for the spell in the object editor - I'm using the "channel" spell as a base.

What can I do do remedy this? Any help in solving the problem will be most appreciated.

 

[ronojales]

if you use Channel and trigger the ability you can just add the boolean condition

• ((Unit) is an illusion) Equal to True

and stop the casting.

 

[Skeedish]

Thanks. One thing - I've searched around and can't find any code that stops a unit from casting and doesn't have issues with it - "begins casting" can be abused etc.

Any help in that direction? Thanks for the response

 

[Maker]

• Untitled Trigger 01
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting an object
  • Conditions
    • (Issued order) Equal to (Order(holybolt))
    • ((Target unit of issued order) is an illusion) Equal to True
  • Actions
    • Unit - Pause (Triggering unit)
    • Unit - Order (Triggering unit) to Stop
    • Unit - Unpause (Triggering unit)

 

[Skeedish]

Thanks that's perfect