[Spell] Making bladestorm an on/off mana consuming hability

[Kuro]

I tried do that using immolation + custom triggers for the spin animation did worked but still having some issues:

1: The blademaster still can attack during the animation
2: Only stops the spin animation by turning off the skill manualy, if the mana ends doesn't stop automaticaly
3: The blademaster doesn't gain his spell/magic immunity

In case anyone know how to improve the existing triggers:

• Events
• Unit - A unit Is issued an order with no target
• Conditions
• (Issued order) Equal to (order(immolation))
• Actions
• Animation - add the spin animation tag to (triggering unit)

• Events
• Unit - A unit Is issued an order with no target
• Conditions
• (Issued order) Equal to (order(unimmolation))
• Actions
• Animation - remove the spin animation tag to (triggering unit)

 

[millzy]

ull have to enhance your triggers and use dynamic indexing to save the unit casting it and add it to a unit group

and a trigger like this will stop the attacks

• Events
• Unit - is atked
• Conditions
• Atacking unit is in your unit group
• Actions
• Unit - order attacking unit to stop

ull need a periodic trigger to detect when the unit runs out of mana

ull have to add/remove magic immunity ability(base it off the item ability) when the unit is using this

 

[Kuro]

ull have to enhance your triggers and use dynamic indexing to save the unit casting it and add it to a unit group

and a trigger like this will stop the attacks

• Events
• Unit - is atked
• Conditions
• Atacking unit is in your unit group
• Actions
• Unit - order attacking unit to stop

ull need a periodic trigger to detect when the unit runs out of mana

ull have to add/remove magic immunity ability(base it off the item ability) when the unit is using this

can you explain in more detail? i'm still a newbie in that trigger things

 

[BloodSoul]

- Use Defend ability as it doesn't require mana, and it's not turned off as soon as its caster runs out of it.
- Combine Battle Stations (orc burrow ability), Cargo Hold and a spell book (for hiding battle stations) in order to prevent a unit from attacking.
- Use triggers to consume mana

The only downside I can think of, for now, would be Defend ability not accepting initial mana cost. If you want that, then I suggest creating 2 different abilities; Use one for activating your spell and the other for deactivating it.

 

[Kuro]

Progress update:

Now i just need BM stop attacking during the Bladestorm

• Events
• Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
• Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting a point
• Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting an object
• Unit - A unit Is issued an order with no target
• Conditions
• ((Triggering unit) has buff Bladestorm) Equal to True
• Actions
• Unit - Add Spell Immunity (Archimonde) to (Triggering unit)
• Animation - Add the spin animation tag to (Triggering unit)

• Events
• Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
• Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting a point
• Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting an object
• Unit - A unit Is issued an order with no target
• Conditions
• ((Triggering unit) has buff Bladestorm ) Equal to False
• Actions
• Unit - Remove Spell Immunity (Archimonde) to (Triggering unit)
• Animation - Remove the spin animation tag to (Triggering unit)

- Use Defend ability as it doesn't require mana, and it's not turned off as soon as its caster runs out of it.
- Combine Battle Stations (orc burrow ability), Cargo Hold and a spell book (for hiding battle stations) in order to prevent a unit from attacking.
- Use triggers to consume mana

The only downside I can think of, for now, would be Defend ability not accepting initial mana cost. If you want that, then I suggest creating 2 different abilities; Use one for activating your spell and the other for deactivating it.

that way i can just press 1 button and start spinning w/o attacking like the vannila skill?

Edit: to work just need burrow cargo hold, since doesn't need battle station i didn't need to hide that in a spell book.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Bloodsoul's suggestion included adding Cargo Hold to the caster during the spell, which would remove his ability to attack.