Capture Ability Help

[Karthis]

I'm tryin to create an ability that will allow certain units to capture an enemy or neutral building. I've tried a couple things, but I can't quite figure it out. Making the ability is easy, but I would guess I need to set up a trigger of some sort to make it work. Can anyone give me an idea on what to do?

 

[Avaleirra]

Make a trigger that changes the ownership of the building when the unit comes near and remove the unit

 

[ZugZugZealot]

Using Finger of Pain as an ability, setting its damage to 0, and setting its targets to enemy, neutral, ground, air, structure; I made these triggers, assuming that the only two buildings you want stolen are scout tower and farm. (you may replace/remove/add farm and scout tower for different buildings)

• CheckValidity
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Building Steal (Finger of Pain|Neutral Hostile)
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Unit-type of (Target unit of ability being cast)) Equal to Farm
      • Then - Actions
        • Skip remaining actions
      • Else - Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Unit-type of (Target unit of ability being cast)) Equal to Scout Tower
      • Then - Actions
        • Skip remaining actions
      • Else - Actions
    • -------- --------
    • Unit - Order (Triggering unit) to Stop
    • Game - Display to (Player group((Triggering player))) the text: Building Steal cann...

• TakeBuilding
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Building Steal (Finger of Pain|Neutral Hostile)
  • Actions
    • Unit - Change ownership of (Target unit of ability being cast) to (Triggering player) and Change color

 

[Karthis]

Ah, I didn't even bother checking the conditions I could use. I used the same event as you did, but it bothered me that it happened anytime a unit cast an ability. I didn't even think to make a condition to limit it to the particular spell. Thanks much!

*EDIT*

What is that action above the Unit - Order? I can't seem to find it.

 

[PrisonLove]

The "---- ----" is a trigger comment, you don't actually need that it's just for readability purposes.

Unless you're talking about Skip Remaining actions, then it is under the trigger category in actions.

 

[Kommando]

charm?