Need help with some abilities (newbie)

1) Missile Auto Target nearest visible hero within range and sight when fire. (DOta hero, i think tinker has it)

2) Blink Attack, hero will do a fast dash attack to the target. ( try to edit from blink, but doesnot seems to have the option i can do it)

3) Multishot, make a heros able to throw his normal damage to a few enemies at 1 time, and number of targets increase when abilitiy's level increase. (Xhero Siege's Dryads and Dota's Siren)

4) Range increase, Visibility increase as an ability. (only one i found are upgrades, cant convert it into abilities)

5) Jump and Thunderclap ( jump from a distance and hit target, doing a thunderclap type of attack and stun nearby)

thanks for any info.

1, 2 and 5 would require triggers. 3 would be done with the barrage ability, 4 with the ability ultravision (it appears to increase sight range day and night, it's just that war3 heroes already have their sight range set to maximum (1800) by day)

thanks for the info.

for 4) anyway i can use the ability to increase attack range?

I dont think so. That would require use with conjunction of another ability, but looking through the abilities i can't seem to find an appropiate ability to use to do a attack range increase. I may have just missed it but...

if thats the case there is no way to increase attack range temporarily through an ability.

I don't know of a way to increase attack range of one unit, even with triggers. If you want to use a different unit for each level of the ability with increasing attack range, that would work.

Yes Astronaut is right. U could trigger on cast of ability replace unit with new one that has increased range. After certain amount of time it will be replaced with original unit

the ability i want can also be passive, the only 2 closest that i found are NE and Humans upgrades, anyway i can make them into abilities?
For 1) anyone can show me an eg on how to do a trigger to get it working? sorry i have not use trigger for abilities before so need to have an eg to start somewhere.

Thx all

I haven't played dota in awhile, but it may be possible to do 1) with the phoenix fire ability. Just make it so it only shoots heroes.

Phoenix fire does operate only in sight range, but it chooses a random target, not the nearest one. The tinker's ability from dota attacks the nearest hero, even if he's out of sight, I think.

There's no way I found to temporarily increase attack range, and believe me, I tried. You can do it with upgrades, but that's permanent, they cannot be unlearned.

Example 1) isn't so simple to trigger, I think, it's not what I would call extremely complicated, but still, I wouldn't use it to explain triggered abilites to someone for the first time.

is there trigger conditions to check whether a unit is in the LOS of another unit? if so you could trigger an ability like that to target the nearest unit.

[quote=Anitarf]Phoenix fire does operate only in sight range, but it chooses a random target, not the nearest one. The tinker's ability from dota attacks the nearest hero, even if he's out of sight, I think.QUOTE]

It only attacks heroes that are nearest in SIGHT. Just wanted you to be clear.

The Tinker's missle ability works on the nearest visible enemy hero only. Just wanted to point that out.

If #4 is for heroes, then try this:

(Your ability name)
Events
Unit - A Unit Learns a skill
Conditions
(Learned Hero Skill) Equal to (Your dummy ability)
Actions
If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
If - Conditions
(Level of (Your dummy ability) for (Triggering unit)) Equal to 1
Then - Actions
Player - Set the current research level of (Your Upgrade) to 1 for (Triggering player)
Else - Actions
Do nothing

This is what I did. I use If/Then/Else multiple functions just because it makes it easier on me, even if there is only one condition/action.