More help for a noob

08-03-2009, 04:05 AM

I am using one of Daminon's spells (great spells btw) and i want to start it with triggers, as in not being casted by a unit. So I spawned a dummy and told it to use the spell, but its not doing it. I used some debug messages to figure out whats wrong and i figured out the dummy is being created, but the spell is not being cast.
Here is my trigger:

Trigger:

If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)

If - Conditions

(Searflesh 0013 <gen> is dead) Equal to True

Then - Actions

Unit Group - Add all units of (Units owned by Player 12 (Brown) of type Firey Disciple) to tmpGroup

Unit Group - Pick every unit in tmpGroup and do (Unit - Kill (Picked unit))

Custom script: call DestroyGroup( udg_tmpGroup)

Set tmpPoint = (Position of Searflesh 0013 <gen>)

Unit - Create 1 Dummy for Player 12 (Brown) at tmpPoint facing Default building facing degrees

Set tmpUnit = (Last created unit)

If ((Unit-type of tmpUnit) Equal to Dummy) then do (Game - Display to (All players) the text: Dummy Created.) else do (Do nothing)

Unit - Order tmpUnit to Undead Death Knight - Animate Dead

If ((Ability being cast) Equal to Animate Dead) then do (Game - Display to (All players) the text: Animate Dead cast.) else do (Do nothing)

Trigger - Turn off (This trigger)

Else - Actions

08-03-2009, 07:07 AM	#2
Tot	Trigger: Unit - Order tmpUnit to Undead Death Knight - Animate Dead have you changed the Animate Dead ability or have made your own? think Trigger: Order Unit to cast a spell only works for abilities made by blizzard if I'm right you can either use a JASS-script or change the base spell into original Animate Dead

08-03-2009, 07:35 AM

Sophismata

Quote:

Originally Posted by T3RMINUS

Trigger:

Set tmpUnit = (Last created unit)

If ((Unit-type of tmpUnit) Equal to Dummy) then do (Game - Display to (All players) the text: Dummy Created.) else do (Do nothing)

That if statement is unnecessary. ((Unit-type of tmpUnit) Equal to Dummy) will always be true.

Quote:

Originally Posted by T3RMINUS

Trigger:

Unit - Order tmpUnit to Undead Death Knight - Animate Dead

If ((Ability being cast) Equal to Animate Dead) then do (Game - Display to (All players) the text: Animate Dead cast.) else do (Do nothing)

Contrarily, ((Ability being cast) Equal to Animate Dead) will always be false in this context.

08-03-2009, 09:12 AM

T3RMINUS

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sophismata

That if statement is unnecessary. ((Unit-type of tmpUnit) Equal to Dummy) will always be true.
Contrarily, ((Ability being cast) Equal to Animate Dead) will always be false in this context.

Both of these were debug messages. Regardless, has anyone figured out why it is not casting?

Edit:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tot

Trigger:

Unit - Order tmpUnit to Undead Death Knight - Animate Dead

have you changed the Animate Dead ability or have made your own?

think

Trigger:

Order Unit to cast a spell

only works for abilities made by blizzard
if I'm right you can either use a JASS-script or change the base spell into original Animate Dead

I do believe that it uses the orderstrings. The orderstring should be correct on my spell.

08-03-2009, 09:53 AM	#5
Pyrogasm	You are correct about the orderstrings, T3RMINUS. Your second debug message will never show, as you're not running that on an on-spell-cast event, to which the "Ability being cast" pertains. Does your dummy unit have (enough) mana? Is it silenced somehow? Does it have the appropriate ability?

08-03-2009, 08:29 PM

T3RMINUS

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pyrogasm

You are correct about the orderstrings, T3RMINUS.

Your second debug message will never show, as you're not running that on an on-spell-cast event, to which the "Ability being cast" pertains.

Does your dummy unit have (enough) mana? Is it silenced somehow? Does it have the appropriate ability?

It's not silenced, the spell costs 0 mana, and it has the ability.

08-03-2009, 08:41 PM	#7
Tot	T3RMINUS: try this: change the base spell into original Animate Dead i'm sure that it'll help

08-03-2009, 09:24 PM

T3RMINUS

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tot

T3RMINUS: try this: change the base spell into original Animate Dead

i'm sure that it'll help

what?

08-03-2009, 09:54 PM	#9
Tot	change the base spell of Daminon's spell to blizzards Animate Dead open Daminon's spell and change it's cast condition to blizzards Animate Dead ID

08-03-2009, 10:18 PM	#10
T3RMINUS	It already is. It has the order string of animate dead already, it should work. Edit: I think i figured out the problem. I think that the spell is not channeled but point targeted. Edit2: Changed orderstring to shockwave, still not working.

08-04-2009, 12:09 AM	#11
Anitarf	The orderstring has to match the spell you are using (or in the case of custom spells, the spell they are based on), you can't just try orderstrings at random.

08-04-2009, 05:27 AM	#12
T3RMINUS	It matches... I changed both of the orderstrings, because i thought the spell was coded as a point target spell.

08-04-2009, 12:35 PM

#13

Anitarf

Quote:

Originally Posted by T3RMINUS

It matches... I changed both of the orderstrings, because i thought the spell was coded as a point target spell.

Both? You mean in the object editor as well? That doesn't do anything, spells always use their default orderstring.

08-04-2009, 12:39 PM	#14
Sophismata	If the base spell is animate dead, it's an instant cast ability with the animate dead order string. If the base spell is shockwave, it's a point or unit cast ability with the shockwave order string.

08-06-2009, 09:14 PM

#15

T3RMINUS

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anitarf

Both? You mean in the object editor as well? That doesn't do anything, spells always use their default orderstring.

Well, I mean i thought the spell needed to be a point target spell, so i changed the orderstring in the base spell and the trigger to shockwave, thinking that would make it point target. However, that didn't work and I changed it back to animate dead.

Edit: Oops, i think i misread your post. You mean if i go to the object editor and change "Text - Order String" it wont work?