How to set an illusion to a variable?

[Erkki2]

I have a spell, in which I need to set an illusion to a unit variable. I tried using the event "unit spawns a summoned unit" but it seems like illusions aren't considered summoned units. How can I detect when an illusion is spawned and set it to a variable?

 

[Maker]

What kind of a trigger did you try? These both seem to work for me.

Triggers

• Untitled Trigger 019
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Spawns a summoned unit
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Game - Display to Player Group - Player 1 (Red) the text: spawns a summoned u...
    • Set u = (Summoned unit)
    • Game - Display to Player Group - Player 1 (Red) the text: (String((Unit-type of u)))

• Untitled Trigger 019 Copy
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit enters (Playable map area)
  • Conditions
    • ((Triggering unit) is an illusion) Equal to True
  • Actions
    • Game - Display to Player Group - Player 1 (Red) the text: illusion enters
    • Set u = (Triggering unit)
    • Game - Display to Player Group - Player 1 (Red) the text: (String((Unit-type of u)))

 

[Erkki2]

Thanks for you help, the problem was in my condition, because triggering unit != summoning unit. Also, I had a condition "unit is summoned" to detect illusions, I changed it to "unit is an illusion" and now everything works fine.

 

[defskull]

But if you have 2 different illusion-spawn ability in the map, how do you differentiate which illusion is from which ability ?

I mean;
Ability A - Set Illusion for Ability A
Ability B - Set Illusion for Ability B

 

[Erkki2]

I actually connected the illusion to casting unit, by giving it the id of the unit that has the ability in a hashtable. If there's another illusion ability and a different hashtable is used for it, the spawn trigger fires, but all it does is to save "0" to hashtable. I Hope I made any sense.
Here you can find the map if you're interested.

 

[defskull]

Oh so you're using Hashtable ?
I was thinking of more, easier approach.

 

[Erkki2]

Well, I need to be able to limit the maximum amount of illusions, and the spell must be mui. If you know a simplier method in gui, tell me. In vJass it would be easy though.

 

[defskull]

I'm not talking about that spell itself lol.

I'm talking about how do we differentiate between 2 illusions produced by 2 different abilities.

I guess detecting them via Order String would do the job.