[General] Need help with autocasting abilities!

[Mistablockout]

So I have these components here:

• A Custom Hero
• A Custom Unit
• An autocasted Dummy Ability
• A trigger for the Dummy Ability

The order in which events occur:

• Custom Hero summons 2 Custom Units
• Custom Units cast Dummy Ability on any available nearby enemy
• Enemies that have Dummy Ability cast on them will be affected by Entangling Roots for a period of time

As you probably guessed, everything was successful until it came down to the enemy not being affected by Entangling Roots at all.

Here's the trigger I have:

• Entangling Vines
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Entangle Enemy
  • Actions
    • Unit - Order (Triggering unit) to Night Elf Keeper Of The Grove - Entangling Roots (Target unit of ability being cast)

I read through this thread before creating the trigger:
Making any Spell Autocasting

Thanks in advance if I can't get to you.

 

[A]mun]

You could try the event "starts the effect of an ability".

 

[Mistablockout]

You could try the event "starts the effect of an ability".

The units cast and nothing happens, maybe I made the spell wrong?

 

[Athur12A2]

The cause might be autocasting event not triggering, or not enough range. Can you copy the content and provide a test map, it should be a lot quicker

 

[Kaijyuu]

Do the units have the capacity to actually cast the entangling roots on the target? Roots can't target air, cost mana, can't hit magic immune, has a range, etc etc.

I might suggest having a dummy unit be the one that actually casts the roots spell, instead of the autocast unit.

 

[A]mun]

Oh nevermind, autocast abilities aren't really casted, to detect their use you gotta find their issued order instead as described here:
Auto cast fire ability detection

 

[fireblasts]

So I have these components here:

• A Custom Hero
• A Custom Unit
• An autocasted Dummy Ability
• A trigger for the Dummy Ability

The order in which events occur:

• Custom Hero summons 2 Custom Units
• Custom Units cast Dummy Ability on any available nearby enemy
• Enemies that have Dummy Ability cast on them will be affected by Entangling Roots for a period of time

As you probably guessed, everything was successful until it came down to the enemy not being affected by Entangling Roots at all.

Here's the trigger I have:

• Entangling Vines
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Entangle Enemy
  • Actions
    • Unit - Order (Triggering unit) (this needs needs to be casting unit for starters) to Night Elf Keeper Of The Grove - Entangling Roots (Target unit of ability being cast)

I read through this thread before creating the trigger:
Making any Spell Autocasting

Thanks in advance if I can't get to you.

heres something i used in an old map of mine it might help it might not.

• Posion Net
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Value
  • Actions
    • Set hero = (Casting unit)
    • Set point = (Position of (Target unit of ability being cast))
    • Set Abilitylevel = (Real((Level of Unknown (A075) for hero)))
    • Set herolevel = (Level of Unknown (A075) for hero)
    • Unit - Create 1 Unit for (Owner of (Casting unit)) at point facing Default building facing degrees
    • Set DUMMY2 = (Last created unit)
    • Unit - Set level of Shadow Strike for DUMMY2 to herolevel
    • Unit - Order DUMMY2 to Night Elf Warden - Shadow Strike (Target unit of ability being cast)
    • add expiring death time or remove it after it finishes its cast.
    • Set hero = No unit
    • Set Abilitylevel = 0.00
    • Set herolevel = 0
    • Set DUMMY2 = No unit
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_point)