RegenerateMana spell help

[bloodybrains]

I'm looking for some suggestions on the best way to implement this autocasting spell I would like to make.
The spell will be called Regenerate_Mana, and it will be used by a Mana Well, which is a structure that stores mana of a certain type (white,black,red,etc) for a player. When a player uses a spell or anything that costs mana, it will be taken from the Mana Well.

Here are the properties of the spell:
1)When manaually cast, it will auto-target itself, increase its mana by 1, and decrease players gold by 1.
2)When autocast (rclicked), it will continually cast until the player has no gold, or the spell is rclicked again. (cooldown = 20 secs)
3)If a player has no gold, it disables the ability.
4)If the wells mana is at max, it disables the ability.

Other things will take place as well, but that is the basics.
What type of unit would you base the Mana Well off of? What spell would you use as the base?
Or just any suggestions as how to approach this.
Thanks.

 

[Warlord_HU]

• Your spell
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Finishes casting an ability
  • Conditions
    • And - All (Conditions) are true
      • Conditions
        • ((Owner of (Casting unit)) Current gold) Greater than or equal to 20
        • (Ability being cast) Equal to Spirit Touch
  • Actions
    • Player - Add -20 to (Owner of (Casting unit)) Current gold

• Your spell part 2
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Begins channeling an ability
  • Conditions
    • And - All (Conditions) are true
      • Conditions
        • (Ability being cast) Equal to Spirit Touch
        • Or - Any (Conditions) are true
          • Conditions
            • ((Owner of (Casting unit)) Current gold) Less than 20
            • (Integer((Percentage mana of (Casting unit)))) Equal to 100
  • Actions
    • Unit - Order (Casting unit) to Stop

and set the target allowed for Spirit Touch to self.

 

[bloodybrains]

One thing I forgot to note was that I changed "gold" in the game interface to read as "Magic". So, when my worker mines, he adds to magic, and the wells use that magic and convert it into the desired mana type. So, the first trigger won't work because the spell shouldn't add to gold.
Keep the suggestions coming, though. Thanks.

 

[Just_Spectating]

.... the gold property is the value of the first box (gold/lumber/food) it doesnt matter what it looks like on the OUTSIDE(magic) it just detects which property it is.... so YES it will work.

 

[bloodybrains]

Sorry, I didn't mean for it sound like I changed gold to magic, literally. I just wanted to state that I changed the text to read as magic just so it would make more sense about what the spell was doing. But still, the spell isn't supposed to increase gold (magic), It is still mined from a gold mine (Magic Mine).

Everything works fine when you manually cast it, but it will not autocast. I don't have a clue why.

edit: I'm an idiot. I just noticed that the action added (-)20. Sorry for the confusion.
Still can't get it to autocast though.

 

[PurplePoot]

A good amount of autocast spells don't fire events, the arrow ones definitely.

Try using Unit - A Unit Starts the Effect of an Ability, though.

 

[bloodybrains]

Still nothing.
Is there anything that can be done in Jass?

 

[PurplePoot]

Not really... you could try finding an autocast ability that casts under the right conditions and yet is picked up with triggers. (and then add the mana with triggers)

 

[bloodybrains]

Any suggestions on one you think will work?

 

[PurplePoot]

Bloodlust... the conditions in which it casts aren't the best, though.

Heal, make the unit have like a -.01 hpps regen aura around him to allow him to "heal" the units constantly?

 

[bloodybrains]

Bloodlust doesn't work either, but the heal ability sounds promising.
How would I go about putting the negative regen aura on the unit though?

 

[PurplePoot]

Odd... I assumed it would, since the negative ones (curse,slow,etc) seem to.

Negative regen; unholy aura, healing ward aura, whatever aura the fountain of life uses

 

[Just_Spectating]

use an aura like unholy aura and make the regen rate negative. if you dont know how to imput negative numbers, hold shift then click the data. also make the other buffs 0 (movementspeed)

 

[bloodybrains]

I can't understand this for the life of me!! There must be a way to get a unit to autocast a spell targeting itself. I've tried everything.
The heal thing almost works... It doesn't cast the spell automatically, but once you cast it manually it will. Why?

 

[Drain Pipe]

you could always make it like immolation which drained negative mana and then checked periodically and took away the appropriate amount of gold.