AoE Illusion-spell

How on earth do I do that?

I know how to create yours basic AoE-spell based of a singel-target spell. Like, per say, raise dead, or finger of death.

But... ss far as I can see there is no way of ordering a unit to cast a 'Item Illusion'-based spell on an other units through triggers... is it possible to do?

Help is highly appreaciated.

I have two potential solutions for you:

1) Have your dummy-caster be a Hero with the illusion item and use the Hero - Order Hero to use Item on Unit command.

2) Add a modified mirror image ability to all the units in the AOE and order them to use it. Afterwards, remove the ability.

Post scriptum: I had a guy in NwN that looked almost exactly like that the one in your avatar!

Hmm im getting kinda suspicious when you post a post like this just a DAY after i made my Illusion Aura... Creates illusions randomly from nearby units. Lol my idea didnt leak out did it? :D

Anyways, what i did was to create a hidden hero caster that had an item with the illusions. Give him a charge of 1000 charges and refresh the item when he uses. If you want the illusions to be owned by the casting player, just change the owner of the summoned units once its created. Lol ur having exacttly the same probs i had :D

gl :P

You could do this stuff with hero dummy casters using items, but here is an alternative:
http://www.wc3campaigns.com/showthread.php?t=57479

That is NOT an alternative, i foudn that thread while i was working on this too. If you read Lord Vexorians last post, he has a way to find Order ID for the item ability. But you cant, as he says you need to CAST the ability to find Order ID, and the problem we all got is that we want to cast ability. I think you should use a hero with items which you refresh each time, it works great for me.

I read the last Lord Vexorian's post and it made absolute sense to me: you need the orderID to be able to cast the spell with triggers, but you can get the orderID of a spell if you cast it normaly, without triggers, by giving the spell to a unit and clicking the ICON. No orderID is required to do that.

Hmm... well... I think I'll just try creating a dummy unit with a useable inventory, and order it to use it's item upon the targeted unit... (I use a loop trigger)

It had crossed my mind. Thanks.

I got a alot cooler image of him, but it's exactly 2x2 pixels too big to be my avatar :P. And I'm to lazy to edit it.

Try seeing my caster system, in the link in my sig, it has a rune of illusions , on that logic you should be able to make aoe illusions.

Item with charge would give extra problems, and actually there is no need to make it a hero. Some of the problems would be that it makes it slower process wise to find the item and to cast it on every unit.

Hm... thank you, Veroxian.

I'm a greate admieror of your spells, by the way :D