(Spell 2) - Area Effect Mirror Image

Ok, I honestly have no idea why this doesnt work, Ive tried to check every possible reason.

Sway Of Illusion - Creates an illusion of Caster + all nearby friendly units.


- Originally I had conditions, but I took them away to try and get it working.
- Currently it WILL Create an illusion of caster but NOT of any other units.

> I have checked the dummy item/ability it works fine when casting on friendly units.
> I checked the Dummy Hero theres no problems there either.
(Removed Locust, Removed Dummy/Invisible Model)

Any help would be appreciated.
thank you

Have you tried the other events, the "Begins Casting" and "Finishes Casting"?

Edit: Hmm silly me, of course it only creates the illusions of the casting unit. You'd have to make the spell target an area or something. Or create a dummy caster for each picked unit. Something like "For each (picked unit) do actions (Create Dummy Hero) (Order last created unit to use X on picked unit)" I guess.

It's because if you order the same unit to copy fx. 6 different units, it will only take the last one, since it takes a bit of time for it to do the order.

Instead you should make a unit ability of the item ability. Create a caster for each unit which you then order to cast it on the picked unit.

I have used this like hundred times, so I'm pretty sure at this. :)

- Soultaker

there is the little problem with item illusions not having an orderstring and requiring an order id instead so he would need JASS.




Not really *good* though because it has memory leaks

I think "Sway of Illusion" (his ability) is not based on Item Illusion, so that won't be a problem. That is if I'm getting you right..

You are right about the orderID, you would have to either use JASS, Custom Script or WEU. But it's so little, so it shouldn't be a problem.

- Soultaker

The dummy ability is based of - item - illusion. (Not one hero initially casts).
I made an item with this ability.

Then gave item to dummy hero, ordered him to use it.

Sorry to dbl post, but it works now.


The Random unit, is very strange as it only picks each unit once?
E.g. Hero casts next to - 1Priest/1Sorc/1Mortar/1Footman.

The spell will create an illusion for the hero & 1Priest/1Sorc/1Mortar/1Footman.

Its exactly what I wanted but I thought it randomly pick

Next time when you create a simmilar spell, convert it to jass and use rawcodes for the abilites.

You only ever have one unit in that temporary group at a time, so it 'randomly' picks that unit every time.

Shorter and more effective. Though it has nasty memory leaks and it should really be using custom script rawcodes for an ability instead of items.