No autocast and adding buildings

I want to know how to take an original ability from w3 and make it so its not an autocast.

also, is there a way without making a new unit to let a unit build an additional kind of building?

replies are greatly appreciated

1) what ability

2) items, 2 units with same model

1. ya what spell
2. Huh?

1. phase shift

2. like have a peasent that can build all the regular Human buildings to be able to learn how to build an orc building with triggers... i dont think its possible but yeah

hmm.. the only reason phase shift does anything is because it is passive (not autocast) theres practicly no way you could time it right. but if it were a long time, i guess you could trigger it. just hide the unit or put it in a corner for so long then bring it back.
2. you could have the buildings need an upgrade to be built, and then when the conditions is met research the upgrade.

twistar = the genius of the day with his last comment... upgrade thing

thanks

You should be able to disable, then enable the use of a building, ne? (the difference between requiring a tech upgrade is, disabling the building would prevent it from being shown, in disabled form, on the build list.)

For the non-autocast, what about triggering the autocast off order whenever a unit is issued the autocast on order? It's not perfect, but it should be transparent to the user.

*yawn* its late.. ill just tell you what youre doing wrong" you cant disable auto-cast. look at order strings. you can enable but not disable.

You can disable autocast. It just screws up your tooltips if you also remove the turn off tooltips (I'm serious, it gets majorly whacked).

What you do is just remove the turn of/off ordercode in the ability editor. You can do the same to anbilities that turn on/off (like defend).

I recently tried to do that, and the tooltips get messed too, but the ability still showed autocast grafics when I right-clicked on it, just like I didn't removed it, they are hardcored too.