using abilities of units owned by other player

[BurnInHell]

Hi, is there a way to use unit's abilities but don't have control his over other stuff?
I mean like i can't move,attack etc with that unit but I can still use his abilities/spells ?
And the unit should be owned by other player if it's possible.

 

[Chaosy]

No, impossible. You can disable simple commands for a unit, but that's for all players. And it's impossible to give a unit to another player while wanting to control the abilities.

 

[Zeatherann]

Make the 'ability' an item/unit that the unit can sell, then catch the sold event and remove the item/unit created.

 

[BurnInHell]

Yeah I was thinking about it but then my unit won't be able to move, will it ?

EDIT: I found the box called Techtree - Items sold

So it may work.

 

[Death Adder]

Actually, you can use abilities (but not move, attack etc) of any unit that has the "select hero/unit" ability and "shop sharing" does the same, only for allied units though.

You probably want to make custom ones though, so you can remove the arrow above the selected unit.

Edit: Note that you can't specify who is allowed to use abilities of units with the ability, only all or allies, and you can't see who does it. As in if player 1 uses an ability from a unit owned by player 2 you can't detect that it was in fact player 1 who did it.

 

[Zeatherann]

That'd make the item sold/unit sold events better for this?

 

[Death Adder]

That'd make the item sold/unit sold events better for this?

The op didn't specify what it would be used for, if it's not required to know which player made the unit use the ability then this would obviously be better.