Make unit unattackable

01-22-2010, 01:55 AM	#1
Ammorth	Yes, how to make a unit unattackable, but still take damage from any effects on him (poisons, etc), without coding the poison, and being able to return the unit to normal. Im hoping for some simple ability or unit setting. If not, I guess I must resort to scripting the poison damage.

01-22-2010, 07:42 AM	#2
Fluff	I don't have any experience trying anything like this, but would it be possible to set the poison spell to allow damage to Invulnerable in the Target Allowed field?

01-22-2010, 08:18 AM	#3
Anachron	Event: a unit is being attacked Condition: Attacked unit is in safeGroup equal to true Action: Order attacking unit to stop

01-22-2010, 09:15 AM	#4
Anitarf	You could try giving the unit the ancient or the suicidal classification and then make all attacks unable to target units with that classification.

01-22-2010, 09:35 AM	#5
Anachron	Or he could change the target type, which results in the same thing.

01-22-2010, 10:42 AM	#6
moyack	Evasion 100% ??

01-22-2010, 11:26 AM	#7
DioD	make it invisible.

01-22-2010, 12:22 PM

Anachron

Quote:

Originally Posted by DioD

make it invisible.

You are not serious, are you?

01-22-2010, 01:47 PM	#9
DioD	why not? nobody will attack invisible units but all affects will be at place.

01-22-2010, 02:09 PM

#10

HyperActive

Actually the Berserk ability that the Troll Berserkers have, can be modified so that the field with "damage multiplier" value has a negative value, and the unit that has it won't take any damage from attacks for it's duration.

It's not important what's the value of the field as long as it is negative (maybe it can even be 0, I don't remember correctly).

Not sure how this affects poison and suck, but, it's worth trying.

01-22-2010, 02:10 PM	#11
Anachron	You would just make the unit invisible for not being able to be attacked? Well, that's just ridiculous.

01-22-2010, 02:19 PM	#12
Archmage Owenalacaster	In the field Combat - Targeted As, you can use a designation like Decoration to make a unit unattackable, since nothing in the game (in my experience) can target decoration. It's the designation used by non-targetable destructables. Unfortunately, that unit field cannot be changed on-the-fly, so it's only useful in conjunction with Chaos for your purposes. EDIT: Quite an inelegant solution.

01-22-2010, 07:03 PM

#13

Ammorth

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anitarf

You could try giving the unit the ancient or the suicidal classification and then make all attacks unable to target units with that classification.

See, I knew I was forgetting something. Simple yet effective.

The problem I was having with abilities to reduce physical damage / avoid it, etc was that the unit would still be a "valid target" in the game engine and the attacks would be "wasted" on it, instead of attacking a target that isn't flagged.

01-25-2010, 08:10 AM	#14
Anachron	You can trigger an attacktarget changer, if target is in group you check for other units around which are attackable and force him to attack another one?^^

01-25-2010, 08:25 AM

#15

Ammorth

Would rather not have an unit is attacked event for a TD.... plus, the ancient was super easy to implement...

JASS:

    function canBeAttacked takes Waypoint w, unit u returns nothing
        call UnitRemoveType(u, UNIT_TYPE_ANCIENT)
    endfunction
    
    function cannotBeAttacked takes Waypoint w, unit u returns nothing
        call UnitAddType(u, UNIT_TYPE_ANCIENT)
    endfunction
...
    call waypoint[n].addOnEnter(canBeAttacked)
    call waypoint[n2].addOnEnter(cannotBeAttacked)
...