How can I make a unit attack when I press a keyboard key?

[Xacal]

Hey... once again, I am baffled...
How can I make a unit attack another unit by pressing a certain key? Suggestions are good, and suggested code is great!

Thanks!

 

[lelyanra]

Make a dummy ability like chainlighting, clean all the values and make the hotkey the key you want. make a trigger that activates when you cast the dummy ability. that trigger will make the unit attack.

 

[Bribe]

Mind control.

 

[Xacal]

Mind control.

Heh.

But, Yelyanra, some problems that I have encountered include keeping the unit from auto attacking... also, I am trying to make the dummy ability be defend, but I can't figure out what the event for Defend and Stop Defend would be...

Any ideas?

 

[burnthemprisons]

remove the regular attack and do damage with the spell, and dont usedefend that just makes no sense. use any activated spell (preferably channel) and do when unit begins casting an ability. i dont know how you want to choose who to attack thats up to you.

 

[lelyanra]

Do you want the unit to be able to attack ONLY if defend is on? I can also solve the problem of auto aquiring targets, i solve this tomorrow when i get home at night. Do you work with GUI or JASS? Show me your progress so far.

 

[Xacal]

Do you want the unit to be able to attack ONLY if defend is on? I can also solve the problem of auto aquiring targets, i solve this tomorrow when i get home at night. Do you work with GUI or JASS? Show me your progress so far.

I'm afraid I'm proficient with neither...

Burnthemprisons, one of my problems is getting the spells to target and fire using triggers... otherwise, I would have tried something like carrion swarm... Or maybe I misinterpretted?

Another problem I have, though, is that my computer can't really override the spells animations too well... for some reason, my WE is missing Art-Animation, or whatever it is...

 

[burnthemprisons]

you need to update your world editor then. try getting newGen, its under the downloads on this site.

 

[Xacal]

I'm afraid I'm proficient with neither...

Burnthemprisons, one of my problems is getting the spells to target and fire using triggers... otherwise, I would have tried something like carrion swarm... Or maybe I misinterpretted?

Another problem I have, though, is that my computer can't really override the spells animations too well... for some reason, my WE is missing Art-Animation, or whatever it is...

Huh, ok, I guess I'll try that...
But, still, my original question kinda stands...

Edit: Ok, I got the patch from Blizzard...

Is there a trigger order that makes a unit cast a custom ability at a certain point...?

Wait a sec- Yelyanra, I don't work with Jass, but what is GUI? Is that just what the normal world editor triggers are (I work with those)?


So, anyways, here's my code...:

• Attack Copy
  • Events
    • Unit - Fighter 0002 <gen> Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to NewAttack
  • Actions
    • Animation - Reset Fighter 0002 <gen>'s animation
    • Unit - Order Fighter 0002 <gen> to Attack Ground (Center of LiamsThreatenedZone)
    • Wait 4.00 seconds
    • Animation - Reset Fighter 0002 <gen>'s animation

Liam's Threatened Zone, by the way, is a region that always moves in front of Fighter 0002's facing direction.
The idea is, of course, is that he'll carrion swarm (i.e., new attack) the center of that region. The problem is, I can't seem to get him to do so...

 

[Brambleclaw]

Just go here Whole Tutorial on it
https://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/general-mapping-tutorials-278/using-spells-basic-attacks-151321/
Just Basically the keyboard event i guess would be a hotkey for the spell
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