Problem with target point of an ability

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I was doing somethink with trigger spells and dummy units and i found out this:

I have a dreadlord with the ability Carrion swarm.

I have a trigger, which should do this:

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  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Finishes casting an ability
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Create 1 Dummy for Player 1 (Red) at (Target point of ability being cast) facing Default building facing degrees

but the Dummy unit is created always at one point (probably at the centre of playable map area). Do you know why?

Edit:
I alredy found out. The target point of ability being cast is always 0,0. Now the question is: does someone know why?

 

[Nichilus]

There is no "target point of ability being cast" for the event "Unit finishes casting an ability" nor is for "unit stops casting an ability".
There is also no "target unit of ability being cast" for such events.

You will most likely need to use different event ("Start the effect of an ability") or store the information (in this case: target point) when unit starts casting the ability and then load the point when unit finishes casting an ability.

 

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Somethink i found out: The response Target point of ability being cast does rospond to unit starts casting an ability but does not respond to Unit finishes casting an ability. strange

 

[Nichilus]

It's not strange really. There is no longer any ability being currently cast, since the event fires the moment the unit stops casting it. That way all the relevant data (target unit, target point and maybe some other) are lost.

As I wrote in my previous post, you will either need to use the event "Starts casting an ability" for the event to fire, or you will use that event to just save the target point of ability being cast into variable and when unit "Finishes casting an ability", you will load the point from the variable you saved it into.

 

[GreeN!X]

Use "Start The Effect of Ability" event.

EDIT:

Post scriptum: you might want to add a condition: "Ability being cast is equal to Carrion Swarm Ability" or something like that or else this will activate on EVERY ability that will be cast in your map.