Trying to make a polymorph attack...

I'm trying to make a tower that, when it attacks units, they are replaced with a sheep, and after 10 seconds, are replaced with the original unit. I'm a little confused on how to do this... Thanks in advance for help! :infth:

Triigers. First make an invisible sorceress with the spell Polymorph(neutral hostile) and ghost. then use this trigger.

Event: A owned by [player] is attacked.
Condition: Attacking unit is equal to a Polymorph Tower
Actions:
Move Sorceress to posision of attacked unit.
Order Sorceress to Polymorph attacked unit.

Yeah, then you have to use other triggers to keep it holding position and not attacking after its polymorphed sumat

...or just remove her attack ;)

Would be easier if you just replaced the unit and then waited 10 seconds then replaced it with the original unit. Could store the original in a unit var.

dataangel, you're right...
remove the attack
and give this tower lots of mana to start with
or ultra-high-speed mana regeneration

then give her the polymorph ability
and there you go...

to Fear.Factor - If I did that, I would have to have an array for every unit that got hit, and that would just be a major pain in the *** to do. Major pain in the ***.....
Spectre/everyone else: i think i'll try that out. I'm going to make the sorc an air unit with no collisions (invisible of course), and follow the advice you said. But I am also making a reverse polymorph tower, in which the target is transformed into something, and speeds up instead of slowing down.... now this i'm currently stumped on.

What's to keep people from killing the sorc and ruining the trigger?

She's invis but what if they have see invis? Or use an AOE attack like a mortar team? Or runs out of mana?


You're better off using the array suggestion. Since you don't have to declare arrays up front you can easily turn an array into a stack by having 2 indexes, one that follows the top and one that follows the bottom.

Have 1 array store the unit, 1 array store the sheep, and 1 array store a counter. Every 2 seconds drop the counter by 1 and restore every unit who's counter is 0.

It wouldn't be terribly hard.

Ok, I have the BEST way here! NO errors what-so-ever!

First thing is to make a Unit Variable Polymorpher.

Place a sorc on the map and make her Polymorpher at initialization. Also, use the trigger "Hide Unit" to make her indetectable in every way and to remove her auto-attack and turn off her collision. Ghost ability doesn't do sh#t quite frankly. After that, make this trigger:

Event - unit owned by (bad guys) is attacked
Conditions - Attacking unit type = to Poly Tower
Actions - Move Polymorpher to position of attacked unit offset by 100 towards 90 degrees.
----------- Wait .01 seconds
----------- Order Polymorpher to Polymorph attacked unit.
----------- Wait 1 second
----------- Replace Polymorpher with a Sorc using new unit's max life and mana
----------- Set Polymorpher = last replaced unit
----------- Hide Polymorpher
----------- turn collision off for Polymorpher


That trigger should allow polymoprhs for a tower. This may not work great with multiple towers, so I recommend making an Array Polymorphers and doing this for each tower if there are more than one.

The replace unit it there to get rid of mana-loss and cooldown for the Sorc. If you edit the spell to remove those factors, then those steps won't be needed.

-Insaniteus-

mmmm have any of you guys ever try changing the polymorph so that it can target heroes too ?
i dunno whether it is a bug or not :
when a hero is polymorphed his/her portrait (on the top-left) is changed into the sheep icon... but when he/she's reverted to the original form, the portrait remains the same : the Sheep icon...
this is kinda annoying :(

I edited the spell polymorph to last ten seconds and only costs 50 mana. I know this isnt an attack, but it could help.