AOE Entagle Roots

[Forceflow]

Hey,
This would be my first time doing a spell like this and I'm not quite sure how to go about it. Can anyone spare the time to give me some help? Thanks in advance,
Force

 

[Heptameron]

First, you need to make a hidden unit which will cast Entangling Roots on every nearby unit. Just base it off a Wisp, change the model to Elevator Wall <Base> and give it the Locust ability (and take away its food cost). Now make a custom ability based off the creep Entangling Roots with no mana cost. (If this is the only spell like this you're doing, you can give this ability to your dummy unit; otherwise, you can just add it with triggers.)

Then you need to make a Hero spell which does nothing, that is actually given to your Hero. When it's used, a trigger will detect that, and create a bunch of the dummy units. The dummy units will use the real Entangling Roots spell and then get removed.

 

[leetslay]

to correct aboves perfect statement: actually you can do it with one dumy unit. just edit the "cast backswing" and "cast point" to 0.000 ... and the "animation backswing point" and "animation damage point" to 0.000 just in case. then edit the cooldown of the custom entangling roots that the dummys will use to 0... and also set the range of the ability to 999999 or whatever the max range is, and then set the movement turn rate of the dummy unit to 3.00, and then a single dummy unit can cast it on everybody almost simultaneously (spelling ).

although i think you would need some time between each order function cuz i dont think you can "shift-click" order a unit like you can in wc3 game

 

[Heptameron]

to correct aboves perfect statement: actually you can do it with one dumy unit. just edit the "cast backswing" and "cast point" to 0.000 ... and the "animation backswing point" and "animation damage point" to 0.000 just in case. then edit the cooldown of the custom entangling roots that the dummys will use to 0... and also set the range of the ability to 999999 or whatever the max range is, and then set the movement turn rate of the dummy unit to 3.00, and then a single dummy unit can cast it on everybody almost simultaneously (spelling ).

That's handy to know. I wonder how well it'd work with a pick action... it'd be intolerably slow with waits, I know that much. Unless you used a timer, but that's a tad complex for the GUI.

 

[Forceflow]

Erm... I can't find a trigger to make a unit start casting an ability...

 

[Heptameron]

Erm... I can't find a trigger to make a unit start casting an ability...

It's at the very bottom of the Unit category: Unit - Issue Order Targeting A Unit.

 

[leetslay]

thats because you cant order a unit to cast an 'ability' you need to order the unit the certain ordercode found in the ability fields somewhere.