Ordering units to use abilities without order strings? Help!!

[Caedrus]

Alright, I'm stumped here. Certain abilities in the World Editor (such as any ability converted from an item ability) have no order string. I am sure of this... I did some testing to confirm that there is in fact no order string given when they are used. Simply adding an order string to them yourself doesn't do anything... they still use no order string when used. So the question is... how the hell do I make a unit cast such an ability with triggers?

Many thanks if anyone can help.

 

[DragoonZombie]

You order the units using order ids.

For example Illusion has no order string, yet you can make the unit cast it using its order id, which is 852008.

So to make the unit cast it you use custom script as you cannot use this in the normal gui interface.

• Custom script: call IssueTargetOrderById( yourunit, 852008, target )

To detect the order id you can use a trigger like this

OrderId

• OrderId
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting an object
    • Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting a point
    • Unit - A unit Is issued an order with no target
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: ===================...
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: (== Order String: + (String((Issued order))))
    • Custom script: call BJDebugMsg( "== Order ID: " + I2S( GetIssuedOrderId( ) ) )
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: ===================...

 

[Tiche3]

Thanks, i'd love to make stuff work like this

 

[Caedrus]

You order the units using order ids.

For example Illusion has no order string, yet you can make the unit cast it using its order id, which is 852008.

So to make the unit cast it you use custom script as you cannot use this in the normal gui interface.

• Custom script: call IssueTargetOrderById( yourunit, 852008, target )

To detect the order id you can use a trigger like this

OrderId

• OrderId
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting an object
    • Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting a point
    • Unit - A unit Is issued an order with no target
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: ===================...
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: (== Order String: + (String((Issued order))))
    • Custom script: call BJDebugMsg( "== Order ID: " + I2S( GetIssuedOrderId( ) ) )
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: ===================...

Thanks a million! +Rep