[General] Untargetable Unit

[Gregory Tountas]

Hello everyone, I was wondering how to make a Unit untargetable? Untargetable means, it can not be touched or attacked (for e.x. if you stop while near the hostile enemy the unit can not be hitted or if you press the A button you can't target the hostile unit neither if you press the left click and hold it enough to cover the unit), so how to make this? But make sure spells can target it, just normal attacks won't. If you need to make triggers for that then tell me first cause maybe I change idea, but if its possible without triggers could be cool, any ideas?

 

[Binsu]

Hello everyone, I was wondering how to make a Unit untargetable? Untargetable means, it can not be touched or attacked (for e.x. if you stop while near the hostile enemy the unit can not be hitted or if you press the A button you can't target the hostile unit neither if you press the left click and hold it enough to cover the unit), so how to make this? But make sure spells can target it, just normal attacks won't. If you need to make triggers for that then tell me first cause maybe I change idea, but if its possible without triggers could be cool, any ideas?

Try making its Selection Scale in Object Editor to 0.01 - 0.99. The smaller the untargetable I guess....

 

[DESTROYER123]

Try the Locust ability.

 

[Gregory Tountas]

Try making its Selection Scale in Object Editor to 0.01 - 0.99

Well someone already told me this, but I didn't knew it works for this thing too, I will check out and rep you if it works.

 

[Nichilus]

It won't work. Imo I don't think you can have unselectable unit the way you want it in WCIII

- while locust makes unit untargetable, it also makes the unit immune to damage (thus even spells)
- setting selection scale to 0,01 will prevent the unit to be selected when you click on it, but you will be able to still select it by left-clicking on the screen and dragging selection over that unit (just like when you select multiple units).
- Also while you will be unable to order your unit to directly attack this "unselectable" target/unit, if you order your unit to attack point nearby the target, that unit will attack the target

 

[themerion]

Are you using damage type magic in your map? Otherwise you can Bannish the unit. Will make sure it cannot attack nor be attacked; except by spells.

 

[Nichilus]

They will still be able to select that unit, though.
What he basically wants is locust ability that nulls only physical damage

 

[Binsu]

If mine will not work, only thing to do is make its Scaling Size 0 and make it invulnerable.

 

[Almia]

Every time the unit is issued to attack,interrupt the order by ordering it again with other orders(move,stop,etc)

Hell_Master's idea is bad,it will cause the health bars to spawn in random locations.

Locust will make it completely untargetable.

You can also use a 100% evasion.

 

[Boris_Spider]

100% Evasion is the best you're going to do, based on what you're looking for. You can also make the unit "flying" and ensure other units can only attack non-flying units. This only works if you have no real flyers in the game.

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Edit: I have a theory, currently testing it...

Edit2:

I'm going to assume you're not using suicidal units (E.G. Goblin Sappers) in your game.

Under Object Editor, set Combat - Targeted as to Suicidal
Then, for everything you don't want to be able to kill it, set Combat - Attack # Targets allowed to include Non-suicidal

Attached is a test map, which I think does what you asked for. It's a better solution than my previous flying/non-flying suggestion. Try to get the rifleman to friendly fire, it won't work. They also don't auto-acquire each other.