Ability trigger

[dukebballfan]

I've been trying to get two abilities to swap for a certain period of time. What's wrong with this trigger?

Event: Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability

Conditions: (Ability being cast) Equal to Ability1
(Level of Ability1 for (Casting unit)) Equal to 1
(Level of Ability2 for (Casting unit)) Equal to 1

Actions: Countdown Timer - Start timer as a One-shot timer that will expire in 20.00 seconds
Unit - Add Ability3 to (Casting unit)


And the second one:

Event: Time - timer expires
Conditions
Actions: Trigger - Add to (This trigger) the event (Unit - A unit Finishes casting an ability)
Player - Disable Ability3 for Player 1 (Red)
Player - Enable Ability2 for Player 1 (Red)


It works fine the first time you use it, but once you use it again, Ability 3 stays disabled. Anyone know what I should do here? Thanks.

 

[AceHart]

> Trigger - Add to (This trigger) the event (Unit - A unit Finishes casting an ability)

What is that line supposed to do?
Because, since there's no conditions on the ability, any ability that finishes will run the actions...

 

[dukebballfan]

OK, I got rid of that line...now when you try to casts ability1 a second time, neither ability2 or 3 is enabled.

 

[AceHart]

Well, then let's start at the beginning:

> I've been trying to get two abilities to swap for a certain period of time

Maybe with a handful more details about what exactly that should do...

 

[dukebballfan]

Well see, I've created a sorta "dummy ability." When ability1 is cast, I want ability2 to be swapped for the dummy ability (ability3)...which is actually just a stronger version of ability2. Then, once ability1s affect ends, ability3 goes away and ability2 comes back.

 

[phyrex1an]

The problem is that you never "unddissable" ability3. Dissable isnt the same as remove so add a dissabled (activly casted) ability doesnt do anything.

 

[Rad]

So you want for example, you cast Thunder Clap then it changes into War Stomp. Looking at your trigger I can see alot of useless stuff, Im surprised it works at all

E: Unit starts the effect of an ability
C: Ability being cast equal to Thunder Clap
A: Player - Disable <Thunder Clap> for owner of <Casting Unit>
A: Player - Enable <War Stomp> for owner of <Casting Unit>
[i]A: Wait (Game-Time) 20 seconds[/i]
A: Player - Enable <War Stomp> for owner of <Casting Unit>
A: Player - Disable <War Stomp> for owner of <Casting Unit>

That should work even if the unit dies etc... if your wanting the duration to increase each level change the Wait to something like...

A: Wait (Game-Time) <10 + <Level of ability for <Casting unit> x 10>> seconds

That would make it like Level 1 - 20 seconds, Level 2 - 30 seconds, Level 3 - 40 seconds.

Need anything else or does this not work right?

 

[dukebballfan]

No, enable doesn't actually ADD ability3, it just enables it if it were already there. Got it working now though...thanks a lot.

 

[Rad]

Add all abilities to the unit, then disable in your initialization trigger... (Duh )