Detecting toggled ability deactivation

Quick question, is there a way to detect if a toggleable mana draining ability is deactivated? As in I want to get it to where a building has, say, a dummy immolation that drains mana. When the building runs out of mana to maintain the dummy immolation, I want it to detect when it automatically deactivates the immolation. Note that I'm not talking about to where the player does it manually.

Bonus question - is there a way to make buildings have buffs?

Thanks in advance!

You need to detect when it is issued an order to turn it off. I believe the order is still issued when the unit runs out of mana. Here's how you'd check:

I'm aware of that bit, what I was asking was when the building has it running until it runs out of mana to maintain the ability, is there a way to detect right away when it auto-shuts off?

And as I said, I believe that that event fires when the ability auto-shuts off.

Just run a timer and check for the buff that immolation-based abilities have. If they don't have the buff, they turned it off. That's what I do, works like a charm.

I gave it a try recently, no dice :(
Only seems to work when I manually click it to deactivate


I'm trying to get this to work on a building though, which for some reason doesn't like to show buffs on them.

Try doing this on the Object-Buff editor or the Object-Abilities Editor Targets Allowed: STRUCTURE

Tried it, no buff :(

The buff is there, buildings just don't show buffs.

Actually, they do, under circumstances I have failed to determine. Still, they should have a buff wether it is graphically shown or not.

Will a check on if that buff "ability" level > 0 register?

Yes.

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Sorry to BUMP this thread, but I believe I have an alternate solution...
(Note: I didn't actually make this)



Specifically, this caught the Order and "Unorder" of the Dummy ability on the hero (based off of Immolation), and Added/Removed a dummy ability which was the actual "effect" of the Hero's ability. (Critical Strike)

Yeah, this is relevant and all, but next time just post your own topic asking if your method might work, if you don't want to test it yourself.

And for clarification purposes, that would work. You'd start to build up events after a while, but aside from that it would function properly. A better way to do it would be to add events to the 2nd trigger with a 3rd trigger whenever a unit learned the immolation ability instead. This would register, on the whole, less events.