Banish issue

[FannyShaver]

Is it somehow possible to give banished unit attack ability? What I am actually after, is to create a unit that can be targeted by spells and magic attacks but invulnerable to psychical attacks like towers and heroes. Cannot be a flying unit classification.

 

[inevit4ble]

What about attack and armour types?

I utilize a system whereby standard attack damage is null and all damage is triggered and deal as spell damage.

You can set it that say "hero" armour or whatever isn't affected by any damage except magic?

And its really simple too. In game constants on the Damage Reduction table you set all the relevant values to 1.00 (100%) therefore all damage will be reduced by 100%.

That might be an option?

 

[FannyShaver]

But he will be still attackable by anything else. I just want to make unit untargetable by anything else than spells and want to keep an ability to attack.

 

[inevit4ble]

He will be attacked and targeted and such but no damage will be dealt except for the damage types you allow

 

[TheOverWhelm]

Mmmm, I don't remember how the ethereal ability works but check that out. Could try a proxyunit to do the attack but I'm not sure otherwise.
Sorry

 

[FannyShaver]

I'll wait for some other answers. Perhaps someone ever come across an ability I could possibly add to give unit an attack Or maybe someone knows how to turn unit visually ethereal? Not talking about vortex coloring + effect, as I would need the unit to shin just as real banished unit does.

 

[GFreak45]

You could change the unit armor type to ethereal and then fake the ethereal art with it :/

The ethereal ability removes the unit attack and changes its armor into the ethereal armor type

 

[FannyShaver]

But I need the unit to keep it's ability to attack. :/

 

[inevit4ble]

it would..........you're only changing the armour type and the amount of damage it would take depending on its armour. It would still be targeted by spells and normal attacks but would only take damage from spells

 

[FannyShaver]

And yet again, it needs NOT to be targeted by psychical attacks at all.:/

 

[inevit4ble]

ok then you can run a trigger every o.o1sec
if unit is attacked order attacking unit to attack another targert
maybe that will work

 

[tommerbob]

Yeah you could simulate a banish ability. Give it a dummy buff, and then turn on a trigger that checks whenever a unit attacks that target, and order them to stop. You can also simulate an Error message to that player for completeness. You can get a SimError snippet here.

 

[FannyShaver]

In certain situations there could be even 50+ units that would need to have their target changed and attack stopped :/

 

[tommerbob]

Then just add the unit to a unit group. Detect when a unit in that unit group is attacked, and order the attacking unit to stop. Then when the unit loses the banish buff, remove it from the unit group.

 

[TheOverWhelm]

Issue with this "stop" business is it wont always work. Units may still try again and if, say, 20 archers have a thing for your hero that will create a lot of lag.

 

[inevit4ble]

have a thing for your hero

lol at that

Ye stop isn't the right option. Thats why I suggested that they are ordered to attack another target.
But another idea came to me, what about giving the unit an 'Ancient' classification or something similar like mechanical or some class that the attacks don't have allowance to attack but spells can still target?

 

[FannyShaver]

I tried mechanical, spells won't work, and ancient don't seem to have any effect at all, since every unit was still able to attack him.

 

[inevit4ble]

You have to changed "Targets Allowed"...
for both spells and attacks
to (non-ancient)/(non-mechanical)
and same for why spells could target mechanical
you have to allow the target of mechanical...

or did you do that...?

 

[FannyShaver]

Certain spells based on certain abilities would never target mechanical whatever targets allowed are, that is why I never used mechanical classification. And yes, I kept trying with ancient, non ancient, adding it for both spells and attacks, no effect at all.

 

[Squeekems]

How does the Spirit Walker work? Lol.