Spell Making Session #6

Well folks, it's that time again.

The point of this, and all other, spell making sessions, is to give all spell makers a challenge along with a specific theme.

Prize:
The winner of each session gets 20 reputation points, and an award (awards are small icons that can be seen below your avatar in forum posts and in your profile).

Rules:
- You can use JASS / GUI / WEU or anything else that you want for your spell.
- The spell you enter must be new and made specially for this contest.
- Everybody is allowed and encouraged to enter, as long as they follow the rules.
- Please post info and WIP screenshots of your spell while you are making it, to get more activity in this thread.
- Imported models are only allowed if they are used for very minor things. (A particle emitter or ribbon emitter could be acceptable.)

When your spell is finished, just attach the map to this thread.

When the session is finished, your spell can be moved to the resources section if it follows the submission rules.

Theme:

This session’s theme is ‘Doppleganger.’ You must make an ability that copies, splits, merges, etc the caster. You could have the hero become two, but the two share the same health for example. Or have the hero split himself into two weaker units. You could even go with two separate heroes that can merge and split with the ease of a button. We do not want to just see Mirror Image copies or edits of Storm Earth and Fire, so get creative!

Thanks to Whitehorn for the idea!

Deadline:

The session ends 15 days from now, that means on Tuesday the 11th of July.

Good luck everybody!

Very interesting theme...
I must go and meditate in a corner until a spell I have thought up.
*Dissappears*

I might actually enter one for the first time because I really like this theme. The last theme was kinda so so but this one is pretty creative.

Damned right, prepare yourselves for my entry that will blow you all out of the water and onto land so I can stick my boot up your asses.

Well so much for entering... Hmmm maybe I will but I have no idea what to make... Can the hero split into more than 2? If so maybe I have a neat idea... If not than I'll just watch this from the sidelines... Ooops sorry for double post :/

The theme is doppelgangers.
That means you can do whatever you want as many times as you want to as long as it has something to do with making a doppelganger (Copy of yourself or something else).

Doppelganger is just the name. The theme is to create a spell that involves splitting or merging or copying the caster.

Oh good :) Maybe I will enter this one... *Runs off to write down ideas and possible triggers*

Im also in, but this time, i will actually sumbit a finished spell!
I think i have a good idea.
I just need the practical side to make it.

Goodluck guys.

Can't wait to see yours tide :D Mine's gonna be noobish but at least I'll have the satisfactory feeling of entering among such supreme company :D

Whew... I've been working on mine all day (Summer vacation == Lots of free time), so I think I'll be able to submit my entry when I get back from class in a couple hours.

Haven't touched mine but I;d better get moving 'cuz I've got a vacation coming in 1 week. My spell shouldn't be TOO hard... I hope... :S

Copy

Description: A tribute to The Matrix. The caster transforms a target unit into a duplicate of itself. The duplicated unit can cast copy. If the caster dies all the duplicates linked to the original die. Each time the spell is cast, there is a chance that the the spell will fail and all copies will dissipate damaging the original as they go, thus making Copy a risky and powerful spell to use.


Naakaloh Spell Session 06 - Copy bi.w3x

Notes:
- Configuration options for restoring the unit transformed into a copy when the duplicate dies or the spell fails; configuration options also available for timed or permanent copies as well as adjusting how limited duplicate ability usage is.
- The model and sound set are clearly not accurate, but that probably doesn't matter much.

Edited by Naakaloh. Reason: Fixed Copy ability; Fixed an error preventing damage from being applied to the original caster..
Edited by Naakaloh again. Reason: Fixed Hero UI Button issue; Fixed (I hope) an issue with the handle group variable containing the copies that prevented the spell from failing correctly..

I dunno if my opinion means much, but from what I saw from the screen shot there may be one slight flaw (depending) If your using a hero to cast, all of the units copied becomes heros and then theres a huge spam of hero icons. My opinion. But otherwise great spell :D (nice touch, the matrix rox)

Maybe a suggestion to fix that problem because it actually is pretty significant - use wand of illusion (or mirror image, though you might run into some problems with it) to make images of units but give them infinite duration.