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Multiple Destroyer Forms

01-18-2009, 09:53 PM#1
Argus
I have created a set of diffrent abilities for morphing a certain unit into other units using the Destroyer Form ability. For some reason when I try it out all of the abilities turns the unit into the same other unit:

Unit X uses Destroyer Form 1: Becomes unit N
Unit Y uses Destroyer Form 2: Becomes unit N
Unit Z uses Destroyer Form 3: Becomes unit N

They are supposed to be diffrent units, the fields are correct. I think it might have something to do with the fact that they all have ability ID: sphinxform and unsphinxform, however when i replaced these with defend or bearform the result is still the same. Does any one understand what I'm doing wrong?
01-18-2009, 10:19 PM#2
Anitarf
The orderstring field in the object editor is of purely informative nature, you can't use it to actually change a spell's orderstring (the few special abilities that have a changeable orderstring have a special field for that). Because your spells have the same orderstring they all get cast at once and the one that creates unit N happens to take priority over the others. The only way to avoid this would be to base your abilities on different base abilities, but I don't know how many have the effect you want; perhaps it'd be best to use dummy abilities in combination with chaos-morph abilities added to the units with triggers.