Automating Skills?

[El-Sevio]

How does one go about automating skills?

In a tower defense, where you can choose from a number of different skills to add to the tower. I want to automate all these active abilities on the tower that the user chooses.

For example once "Shockwave" has been learnt it automatically will cast it at the point of a unit when there is one within the range of the spell



What i need is the event that fires the trigger

In power towers it is when a unit is attacked by the dummy attack of the tower that fires the trigger. But this can only work when the tower and the ability are synonymous - mine are not, and more than one ability can go on one tower.




Unit entering range events added after tower construction will not work as it does not loop the skill after its Cooldown is finished




Checking every x seconds for a unit within range of each spell becomes far too laggy




Any ideas???!

 

[Tom Jones]

Elaborate.
Are you talking about custom passive skills?

 

[El-Sevio]

Custom active skills. Edited the initial post to be more specific

 

[Tom Jones]

Ahh, I get it now. Use the custom ability as an orb effect. The ability Orb of Lightning (New) let's you use any ability as the orb effect. After you customized Orb of Lightning (New) add it to the tower.

 

[El-Sevio]

Dont orb effects work based on the attack of the tower? And there can only be one per tower?

Because in this map I was looking for one tower that can have more then one ability

 

[Tom Jones]

Use a timer then, get all units in range of the tower, create dummies, make them cast dummy spells on the picked units.

 

[El-Sevio]

I wont do that, but the idea of dummy units + orb of lightning (new) is just what I 1needed! (The dummy units can be permanent, so ill just make a dummy unit with a dummy attack per new ability bought)

Thanks man

 

[Chocobo]

Remember Orb of Lightning is not firing if the unit auto-acquires a target (without any order).

 

[MindWorX]

Remember Orb of Lightning is not firing if the unit auto-acquires a target (without any order).

That can be fixed tho using a generic "unit enters whole map" event, and then add the "A Unit Aquires a target" to another trigger that orders the unit to attack it's target. It's a simple work around. It leaks a little, but is otherwise safe.