Does Anyone Know How...

Does anyone know how to make this kind of advanced Spells.

What happens in the spell:

You press a button in the ability area for your hero...

Then a set of choices pops up, because the ability had the spellbook id thing...

The abilitys that pop up within the spellbook are 1 Target, 2 Targets, 3 Tagrets, 4 Targets, 5 Targets, 6 Targets, Every Other Applicable Target, All Applicably Targets.

Then you press... say 6 Targets...

Then Random Targets, Most Powerful Targets, Closest Targets...

Then you press closest targets...

Then Level 1, 2,3 ect... show up...

You press Level 2...

The damage of the spell it times and it hits 6 targets and takes up 6 times as much mana, but there are 10 targets the same distance from you...

So the computer automaticaly and randomly chooses 6 to do the spell to.


Anyone know how to do this... I have tried but failed, and i dont know how to make it choose units within a certain distance to to the spell to.

*there will also be a regular cast button that goes strainght to the Level button set.*





Also i would like to try to make it so you can chose spells that will be displayed on the second screen of the spellbook for easy access.

I think it is possible w/o JASS but JASS might make it alot easier.

Well from what u got and from several minutes of testing i have come to the conclusion that this is utterly impossible.

Hehe Vilkacis - you must give up easy then? :)

To the original post: yes, this is VERY possible - but it's not simple by any means. The fact that you mentioned JASS says to me that you're willing to accept this fact, so I'll see what I can help you out with here.

...I was going to type out an insanely long post here, and then I realized that I'd probably be able to help you out more if I made a small demo map with examples of the types of Triggers you'll need to use...

I should add though that your explaination is lacking a few details - mainly, what your spell actually does :). It's great that you've told us that you need help finding targets for this spell, but if you're looking to achieve a certain effect explaining what this spell eventually does (casts Frost Nova on every target? Chain heals the units?) is important too. If you can reply back with that info, then I'll probably be able to help out more :).

Thanks... The what the spell does is not very relevant, considering the fact that i am going to make most (almost all but summoning) spells have these choices. Anouther thing that i would like to try to do is make it so when you use a spell a cooldown timer appears in a multiboard. The bar in the multiboard goes down as a number next to it or below it goes down, and the number being how much mana(not including the times for multiple targets...)the next cast of that spell, kinda making it a cast as much as you want, but it will take a lot more mana cast it the second time if you don't wait. The mana in my map will be used for almost everything, and if you run out you pass out and if you go too far into the negatives, you die and start back over as a level one guy, and all that fun stuff.

But if you want a specific spell then make it umm... 50 or so size flamestrike on the chosen units.

I think that what i am trying to do with multiple spellbook abilitys with abilitys in them will ketch on very quick, because it would give a hero an unlimiter number of abilityies, but to make the hero able to learn abilities like on spellcraft, it would take a lot of differet spells(unless you can adda spell to a spell book)... can you?