Invisibility that does not dispel on attack

[plug]

how do u make a hero ability which is invisibility not dispelling on attack?

 

[Silvenon]

Maybe you could use the permanent invisibility, but keep track of it, so you can remove it when the invisibility should expire.

 

[Ciebron]

Maybe you could use the permanent invisibility, but keep track of it, so you can remove it when the invisibility should expire.

wouldnt work

 

[gavdaman88]

Make a dummy unit cast invisibility on the casting unit for a set time each time the unit goes visible by attacking. That WILL work

 

[Restor]

thats the worst effective method to do that with dummy

lets have a look at the ability named "Ghost", from Undead shade, that will do not dispell on attack

thats simple triger, unit begins cast a ability blabla,add Ghost ability to UNIT wait X seconds (or whatever) and remove Ghost ability from UNIT

 

[LeviathanReborn]

Simple, but you need to know when and how to remove the Permanent Invisibility ability via triggers. Just give the Permanent Invisiblity ability with 0 duration (which I suppose is the fade-time for invisiblity).

 

[Restor]

you can use vertex coloring to make better efect of "becoming more invisible" and vice versa in the end of invisibility

 

[Captain Griffen]

Permament invisibility + ghost gives the effect you want, I do believe for some strange reason. I think ghost on its own doesn't quite work, but you can try it.

 

[Masiah]

Open object editor. In the ability tab, select "Special", then "Units" and then the ability "permanent invisibility". There are 2 values set to 2.00 (Unit duration, hero duration), and set them to 0. This will give you permanent (even if you attack) invisibility.
If you want to make it a castable spell, use this trigger:

• Invisible
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit ends the casting of a spell.
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) equal to "Give Inivisibility"
  • Actions
    • Unit - Add "Permanent Invisibility" to (Target of ability being cast)
    • Wait - (Time you want the buff to be present)
    • Unit - Remove "Permanent Invisibility" from (Target of ability being cast)

If you want the buff to be permanent, ignore the last 2 lines. If you want the ability to be available from start, just add it in the object editor to the unit.

 

[Silvenon]

That's what I said, but Ciebron said it wouldn't work.

 

[Masiah]

Invisibility ability was tested before posting. And I don't think trigger could fail... so it should work. About comments like "Wouldn't work", please post WHY it wouldn't work. Constructive criticism, you know...

 

[plug]

i tried it, it works the first time you cast it, but doesnt seem to work after that i have no idea why this is happenin to meh :<

 

[ShadowMan]

The reason why it won't work the second time could be because Masiah suggested a TriggerSleepAction() which means its not MUI, which in turn means if you used your invisibility spell a second time within the buff duration it would've ignored the last action and started all over again, making your first unit permanently invisible.

And also, adding a wait time nulls all event responses (except GetTriggerUnit() ) so, before you use TriggerSleepAction() you should store your targeted unit in a variable.

To make it MUI you should use timers, which works better in my experience, and playing with variable arrays and timers equals MUI fun

If I haven't answered why it doesn't work the second time then I too am stumped.

 

[graystuff111]

This is a last resort, but use a periotic event to check for a buff, then add the buff in the ability Beserk. Then, pick every unit in the playable map area not in Invis_Group and add the ghost ability to the picked unit, and then add that unit to Invis_Group. Next, pick every unit in Invis_Group, check if the unit has your buff, and if it doesn't, remove the ghost ability from the unit and remove the unit from Invis_Group.

 

[TaShadan]

use morph and give the morph form invis
so you can set time of beeing invis with morph duration

 

[Numerion]

i have got invis through immolation so unit is losing mana each second but you can base it on any other spell for example base it on bloodlust and remove all bonuses from it and then make trigger
event:
unit starts casting abbility
condition:
abbility being casted equal to permanent invis
action:
add ghost to targeted unit
set variable unitwithinvis=targeted unit

event:
every 1 second
action:
pick every unit in playable map area of type unitwithinvis
condition:
picked unit has got buff invis equal to false
then actions:
remove ghost from unitwithinvis