[Solved] JASS ability casting

[rAmPaGingONI]

I have an ability that drains life and mana from enemy units, and since GUI doesn't seem to support making a unit cast non-standard abilities, I was wondering if someone would be willing to modify my trigger so that it stores 2 different custom abilities and then orders the attacking unit to cast the ability on the attacked unit, or show me how to do so.

Here's the trigger:

• Actions
  • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
    • If - Conditions
      • And - All (Conditions) are true
        • Conditions
          • ((Attacked unit) is A Hero) Equal to True
          • (Mana of (Attacked unit)) Greater than 5.00
    • Then - Actions
      • -------- the casting of the first ability goes here --------
    • Else - Actions
      • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
        • If - Conditions
          • Or - Any (Conditions) are true
            • Conditions
              • ((Attacked unit) is Summoned) Equal to True
              • (Mana of (Attacked unit)) Greater than 5.00
        • Then - Actions
          • -------- the casting of the second ability goes here --------
        • Else - Actions

 

[ap0calypse]

GUI does support non-standard abilities.

For example, f your custom spell is based on "Storm Bolt", then you should order the unit to "Human Mountain King - Storm Bolt".
If your ability is based on Siphon Mana, then you should "Human Blood Mage - Siphon Mana" the target.

So it all depends on the base spell.
If you used Channel as a base, then you can even choose your base spell (and thus the order) for it.

 

[rAmPaGingONI]

Hmm. I'd tried stuff like that and it hadn't worked, so I assumed that GUI didn't work that way. In that case, since channel is under 'no target', how would I make a spell based off the neutral life drain target a unit? Or would that fall under Siphon Mana?

 

[Cokemonkey11]

the neutral life drain ability and the channel ability are completely separate. Which one are you using?

 

[rAmPaGingONI]

The life drain. I just thought that it might be based off of channel because of its similarities to channel.

 

[ap0calypse]

Uhh, what? I don't see a lot of similarities between Life Drain and Channel (none, actually).
And Channel can be everything: unit target, point target, unit & point target and no target.

Either way, did you try:

• Unit - Order Caster to Neutral Dark Ranger - Life Drain Target

Because if you based the spell off life drain, that's the order you want to use.

 

[rAmPaGingONI]

Didn't even notice that one. Thanks.