Ability Help

[Jethro]

I want to make a chain ability that does damage and casts a spell on each unit it attacks. Please Help.

 

[Jethro]

oh sorry and i want it to cast as part of the normal attack not an autocasting button or a manual cast button

 

[Grundy]

that doesnt make any sense. "i want to cast a spell without autocasting or casting it"

 

[Sud]

This is doable, but unless you want to use a simple chaining spell like chain lightning, it will require you to manually acquire the targets via a trigger and cast the spells. You may also have to supply the chain graphic effects if you want something more visible.

Without writing your triggers for you, here's the algorithm

Let hero X has this skill

Make a trigger such as

Event:
- A Unit is Attacked

Condition:
- Attacking Unit is hero X

Action:

- Set heroPoint to position of attacking unit
- custom script set wantdestroygroup
- set ChainAmount = 0
- pick all units in 500(or whatever aoe) of heroPoint
- loop
- if ChainAmount less than or equal to 3(or how many jumps you want)
- then
- set HitPoint to position of picked unit
- create 1 dummywhateverspellcasteryouwant at HitPoint
- order last created unit to cast whateverspellyouwant on picked unit
- custom script destroypoint hitpoint
- else
- do nothing
- set ChainAmount = ChainAmount + 1
- << end loop >>
- custom script destroypoint heroPoint

and that pretty much does it. Add in whatever graphical or lightning effects you want

 

[Jethro]

Thank you for your help sud. you helped more than i expected (this is for a tower in a new TD i am making where you have a unit that casts a chain lightning like spell as its normal attack and every target hit gets slowed, -armor, or bashed)

 

[Grundy]

why not just give the tower a glaive attack?

 

[Sud]

Maybe he wants the tower to do something on top of the chain attack, like maybe stun, or faerie fire, or perhaps slow. At least that's the impression he gave me.

 

[Jethro]

If you havent noticed im really bad at explaining my self sorry. Sud is right i want to have a chain lightning spell and each target gets slowed, or some other Ability cast on them at the same time.