Magic Immunity research

[sunshinex3]

i can't find anything on this but how do allow magic immunity only through research?

i train dragonspawn

dragonspawn isn't immune

research magic immunity upgrade

dragonspawn is now magic immune

the current spells night elf and neutral magic immunity don't work....

is their any other way other than replacing the unit? or triggering them to gain magic immunity 1 by 1?

 

[Nichilus]

Create a copy of the Spell Immunity ability.
Set the following fields for the ability:

• Techtree - Check Dependencies: True
• Techtree - Requirements: Your_research

 

[sunshinex3]

yea I'm saying that's not working.... am I altering the wrong spell immunity?

what happens is that the passive ability looks like it requires research but then in reality the unit is immune to spells regardless of the research...

Does it work for you guys?

 

[Cheshire]

this is an interesting bug.

I tried it too. with both the unit ability and the item version.

it seems magic immunity is hardcoded to always apply even if it is supposed to be dependent on an upgrade. it even has the tooltips demanding that it needs the upgrade, but applies anyways.

The simplest way around this would probably be to have a dummy "magic immunity" spell that needs the upgrade but actually does nothing, and apply the magic immunity with triggers.

 

[Duckfarter]

Yea, I tried using the Spell Immunity (Item) ability that requires a research aswell but the units were already immune to magic before it was researched.

Can be triggered like this instead:
When Magic Immunity is researched add the Spell Immunity (Item) to the units that already exist in the map.
Change a boolean from UpgMagicImmune() = false to UpgMagicImmune() = true
Have another trigger that checks for new units of that kind that enter Playable map area and if UpgMagicImmune() = true then add the Spell Immunity (Item) to those units.

If that works the last part is to hide the ability in the interface.

However now that I read a bit closer what you said... I bet some kind of research like Troll Berzerker upgrade that replaces the unit with a new unit that has the ability SHOULD work aswell. One could even play around with the Chaos ability requiring a research.

 

[sunshinex3]

i found a spell immunity that i can hide... it also doesn't respond to research

 

[Daffa]

Why not use the Chaos ability like the Troll Berserker research?

 

[sunshinex3]

i had other upgrades involving these dragons and now i have to change and add triggers but yea chaos ability looks to be the best way...