Make A spell autocasting?

[BlackHobo]

How would i make a spell like carrion swarm or shockwave, autocasting like heal.

Im making a modern warfare map and I want troops to use mana as ammo got that part done but im having trouble finding anything close to a autocasting spell that deals damage.

i will credit you in my map if you can help!

its going to be pretty intense if I can get it to work.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Base it on slow or parasite with 0.01 duration. Use triggers that on casting the dummy spell, it creates a dummy unit and gets it to cast shockwave on the target. That is how TDs do it.

 

[Angry_Bovine]

You might also want to 0 out the effect just to be sure, and make the mana cost appropriate and the cooldown as needed. The dummy unit should be invisible (because it uses the model none.mdl) and invulnerable.

But for what you want to do, it sorts of sounds like you'll want to use Searing Arrows. That is autocasting, works on attack, and uses mana and adds damage. The problem is, players can try to click it off (though I believe you can force it to click it back on). You could just trigger it to remove 1 mana when the unit attacks and disable attacking when it has no mana.

 

[CyberDuelX16]

Try Copying and Pasting The Heal Spell then make it a hero spell, after that just edit it to do the effects u want it to have. =)

 

[Squiggy]

Base it on slow or parasite with 0.01 duration. Use triggers that on casting the dummy spell, it creates a dummy unit and gets it to cast shockwave on the target. That is how TDs do it.

Not every TD is doing it like that as some use the
E: Unit is attacked
C: Level of *ability* for (attacking unit) = 1
A: Order (attacking unit) to use *ability*

 

[Dr Super Good]

Squiggy, yes that works but is a lot more unefficent, especially if 100s of towers are attacking at once.

 

[Squiggy]

true words - but where can i find a td with 100+ autocating towers ?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Yes but the a unit is attacked event triggers for every attack, including rappid fire towers which can shoot 10-20 shots a second. Although it only runs a condition, it still chews un needed processing time, thus running a trigger on something less used like on an ability cast is more efficient..