How to make non-player unit periodically cast ability?

[jonathan0181]

I'm creating a map that you are a farmer and you plant crops and stuff and you can hire a guy to water your plants I'm wanting to know how do you create a trigger that orders that units to cast an ability that waters the plant because I don't control the unit?

 

[Mr_Bean]

It depends on what type of object your plants are, for example, are they doodads, units or destructibles? If they are units, you must customize a spell which targets units (for example, Curse). You would then make your trigger like this:

• Water Plants
  • Events
    • Time - Every 10.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Order [your_unit] to Undead Banshee - Curse [your_plant]

Note: You can change the events to whatever you want.

- Mr_Bean

 

[UnHolyDarKness]

It depends on what type of object your plants are, for example, are they doodads, units or destructibles? If they are units, you must customize a spell which targets units (for example, Curse). You would then make your trigger like this:

• Water Plants
  • Events
    • Time - Every 10.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Order [your_unit] to Undead Banshee - Curse [your_plant]

Note: You can change the events to whatever you want.

- Mr_Bean

dont forget that the units Mana is used to cast the ability so you might replenish the mana of the unit to 100% before casting another time XD

 

[Mr_Bean]

Or just make the spell cost 0 mana.

- Mr_Bean

 

[UnHolyDarKness]

good point but imagine that in a map like dota an AI hero uses abilities without mana while there are another abilities that work depending on mana or hero intelligence