Enemy Abilities

Hi, i am new here gooday. I was wondering, this may sound noob sorry in advance if i could have fond this info elsewhere, but i feel it is a bit too specific.

Ok, in short how do you get your enemies on a CG to cast spellls? For example, if i want a certain unit which is controlled only by the comp, to cast blizzard on a target, how do you get the comp unit to cast blizzard in the right place, and have it use its mana as a human player would? and for that matter, also friendly CPU units.

Is that clear? If not let me know i'll see if i can clarify this question. HAI!

What do you mean cast blizzard in the right place? If you want a specific routine (timing-wise, like every 15 seconds cast blizzard on X spot), then you'll have to go through the triggers and go to Unit - Order ... Otherwise, if you're trying to figure out when a cpu WOULD cast blizzard, well then it's their AI that is regular in warcraft and therefore just go to melee game and check it out.

Doing this is essentially equivalent to ordering any of your own units to cast a spell by way of GUI or JASS. Don't worry, you posted in the right place. In the Trigger editor there is an action referred to as "Unit - Issue Point Order". If you know the unit whom you want to order to cast blizzard, you can say "Order (the unit) to Human Archmage - Blizzard (target point) in your own custom trigger. Make sense? If you've worked with the trigger editor before, this should make sense, otherwise it will be gibberish.

Does this make any sense to you?

NICE! you guys rule, yea that trigger there makes sense, so would my event be "when unit is in range of X unit" then the action?

For example on this map im trying to make, you have a group of heroes, then an enemy spawn. What event would i give the enemies so that they would try to kill you with abilities i give them? and i mean use them intelligently

That's getting into AI - I have no idea how to do that, it would probably go deeper than just a trigger like that. Typically people use scripts in JASS to code their AI.