Auto-Cast Function

Basically, I want to when a Sea Elemental attacks another unit, the Sea Elemental auto-casts Chain Lightning to that unit which bounces to nearby other units.


The problem has 2 things.

1: It doesn't work.
2: If I wanted for a custom-Chain Lightning spell, do I still use this command and edit normal Chain Lightning or else?

Please help!

Yes, you use normal Chain lightning as order... its because Farseer - Chain Lightning converted to JASS results in "chainlightning" order string. You can see that normal Chain Lightning and your custom one have same order string ("chainlightning")

Um, okay...but why doesn't it work? Should I create a dummy unit instead?

I guess it would be because every time a unit attacks it set to be the Unit_1 and there are likely to be many units attacking at the same time and so forth. Put some condition in there like "Attacking unit is (Type of Sea Elemental) = True".

Yeah, I think you should check if the attacking unit is the one you want.

Two the last two posters: that is exactly what he does. There is no wait, so there couldn't be a problem with multiple triggers running simultaneously.

Are you sure:
The attacking unit is of the correct type
The attacking unit has the spell
The attacking unit has enough mana to cast the spell
The attacked unit is a viable target of the spell

Thanks everybody for the replies. The trigger won't be screwed because I'm making sure there is ONLY one Sea Elemental on the map (it's a type-of-boss). I don't get why it should be "Attacking unit is (Type of Sea-Elemental) = True". Or should the trigger be something like this:


EDIT: And yes, I checked that list of the attacking unit.

Yeah, I just re-created your trigger on my Editor and it worked. I'll I can say is check those things blu da noob mentioned.

Edit: Oh just noticed you checked those. Damn, perplexing.

As long as you checked the stuff I posted above, I can't see a problem.

No no no, I meant that I was ASKING if the trigger in my post would work. In this case, it will. Thanks everybody :)

P.S. Is there someway you can copy + paste triggers posted here into World Editor? That would be so cool if you could and much more convenient.

No, you can't :/

You can copy paste JASS.

Have 2 attacks, one normal, the other with the cooldown you want for Chain lightning, a bouncing path with the specified max bounces and a lighning projectile. Have both of them targetable on the same thing or atleast the same ground.

Looks the same, can damage the same, just no actual spell.

Ok, thanks for the reply bout the copy/paste thing.

@orc_dork: 2 attacks? I get what you mean but...alright I'll give that a try, thanks!

You can't use lightning as a projectile, all the units with lightning attacks have some special lightning ability which adds the actual effect. I'm not sure if those abilities work with bounvy attacks.