Hide hero ability.

Once again guys, need help.

Im trying to create an ability that can be turned on and off, but dont know where to start. Basically, when turned ON, the hero/unit becomes invisible. They can stay invisible for as long as they wish, but if they attack or move, it turns off. Its for a minigame im making, where if your not invisible(hiding) at a certain time, towers will attack you.

You can make it based off a dummy spell which has no target (I'd recommend Channel, but War Stomp would work). Then, when the unit casts the spell spawn a dummy unit and have the dummy unit cast a spell based off of Invisibily with duration 0 (duration 0 lasts forever). Then, when the unit moves or whatever, remove the Invisibility buff from it.

However, there will be a slight delay between the casting of the spell and the invisibility effect. Therefore, I would either use Shadowmeld and just make sure the time is always at night.

Yeah i see how that would work. How do i cast an ability via triggers?

Issue an order to the dummy unit to cast it.

In case you're unclear how to do that, you can get the order string for the dummy ability from the ability editor (its one of the fields).

ah yes, its all coming together now. thanks again guys.

make it a mana based shadowmeld, thats easiest

Ok, so far i've just been playing around so i can understand how this all works, so what ive done is created a dummy spell. When the player uses that spell, this trigger runs, doing the following.


Thats not working...

Also, how do i create my own order strings for my ability?

The problem is Blizzard will cost mana..and your order line is messed up too I think (haven't used GUI in a while). Also, depending on how big MG 6 Area is, the Paladin might not be in range to cast Blizzard. But you're on the right track ^^.

It should be: Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Human Archmage - Blizzard (Position of (Casting unit))

You don't need to create your own order strings. If you have a custom ability, use the order string for the ability that it was based off of.

You should check mana, And you can't "blizzard" a unit, it can only be casted on a point. So u should do like this.



You should add expiraion timer to last created units. It would get bugged if 2 or more players cast it in the 3 second interval.

Thanks guys, ill have a play around, see what i can come up with, and get back to you.