Where's the trick?

[claptomanic]

hey guys ;D

i made a spell for selling items inside of the inventory....so far its easy. now the problem...no matter which casting range i insert (tried up to 9999) i always get the error that the target isnt in range.
The spell is based on channel and its working perfectly...the only problem is that i have to drop the item i wanna sell before its possible so where's the trick?

thanks in advance

greetz clapto

 

[TwoVenomous]

you can do this :

when the ability casted, spawn a dummy shop (without model, selection, and pathing) of course with a normal shop abilities, then order the unit to give the item to the shop.

this is an example

• Set tempPoint = (Position of (Triggering unit))
• Unit - Create 1 Dummy Shop at tempPoint
• Unit - Order (Triggering unit) to give (Item carried by (Triggering unit) in slot 1) to (Last created unit)

I hope you get the idea!

 

[claptomanic]

the problem is that the ability isnt cast on the items in the inventory because they are not in range (at least the error tells that -.-) so that wouldnt work too ^^

but thanks anyway xD

 

[TwoVenomous]

If you want, you can split the abilities into 6 and gather it into a spellbook, one for each inventory slot... just my suggestion...

 

[ap0calypse]

What about creating a dummy shop at map init and then moving it right next to the hero when the spell is cast?
Or you know, move the item. That's also fine. There's no reason why it wouldn't be in range of the shop.

I use a similar method for the JASS-snippet that is aptly named "GetItemCost"
(based on Nes' more advanced version, as mine doesn't include stacks and there might be some other rubbish I didn't account for).

 

[TwoVenomous]

That's also fine. There's no reason why it wouldn't be in range of the shop.

he wanted the player to be able to cast the spell by targeting the item in the inventory.

 

[ap0calypse]

he wanted the player to be able to cast the spell by targeting the item in the inventory.

Your point?

 

[TwoVenomous]

Your point?

I don't get it

EDIT : oh, I'm very sorry..

I tried casting a storm bolt to the item in the inventory, and it worked well...

 

[claptomanic]

so once again because it seems to be unclear :

i made a spell to sell items with the snippet apo suggested
the problem is that i cant target item inside the inventory of the casting unit because i get the error that the target isnt in range.

how can i fix that?

 

[ap0calypse]

My apologies, seems like I'm the one misunderstanding you, Clapto.
I have no idea why my spell doesn't have the error you have, I just based it off Channel (as did you), then set targets allowed to "Item" and it worked.
Didn't even change the cast range or anything.

Map attached, I hope it helps you.

 

[claptomanic]

ahhh found the problem xD

stupid me....i based the unit having the spell of the human house and that unit seems to be unable to cast the spell on items in its inventory somehow....when i tried my spell with a hero it worked perfectly.

thanks for helping me guys ;D +rep^^


EDIT: okay now i ran some tests and i ran into anohter problem. it seems that buildings cant cast the spell as long as the movementspeed is 0 but when i set the movementspeed to 1 it can cast the spell but it can move too and has these annoying icons for move, patrol etc. anyone has an idea?

 

[ap0calypse]

Hmh, yet again I seem to get different results.

I opened my test-map (see previous post), created a custom building (based on the Farm) and gave it an inventory and the spell (which is now a unit-spell instead of a hero-spell).
I was able to use the ability and the items still sold as they should.

I tried making the building unable to use any items ("Data - Can Use Items = False"), but that didn't seem to have any impact.
What did make the spell fail was the data "Data - Can Drop Items = False", but that only seems logical.

 

[claptomanic]

hmmm...okay....i tried to do the same in your test map and it worked....strange....any ideas what could cause this?