Expiration Timer on Item Buildings

[Taco]

How could I add an expiration timer to an item-built building, like the Ivory Tower building? I haven't tried much, seeing as how I've only been using WE for about a week now, and It'd save me quite some time .

 

[XXXconanXXX]

Life Timer
    Events
        Unit - A unit Spawns a summoned unit
    Conditions
        (Unit-type of (Summoned unit)) Equal to Ivory Tower
    Actions
        Unit - Add a 60.00 second Generic expiration timer to (Summoned unit)

You can also change the type of timer it is, whether it be an Animate Dead type style, where it explodes and has the 'Timed Life' buff, or something like Disease Cloud where it trakes damage every second until it dies.

 

[Taco]

Errr, thanks, but I forgot to mention, I wanted the unit to have a visible timer-bar thing. Shoud've made myself more clear, I already knew how to make it last X seconds, I was just trying to find out how to make it have a timer-bar thing (the blue bar that show's how much longer the unit has).

 

[XXXconanXXX]

Set the type of Expiration Timer to Animate Dead.

Life Timer
    Events
        Unit - A unit Spawns a summoned unit
    Conditions
        (Unit-type of (Summoned unit)) Equal to Ivory Tower
    Actions
        Unit - Add a 60.00 second Animate Dead expiration timer to (Summoned unit)

 

[Grundy]

Errr, thanks, but I forgot to mention, I wanted the unit to have a visible timer-bar thing. Shoud've made myself more clear, I already knew how to make it last X seconds, I was just trying to find out how to make it have a timer-bar thing (the blue bar that show's how much longer the unit has).

Errr, what he told you does just that.

 

[Taco]

I'm probably doing something wrong, but I triple checked the code and it's the exact same one you provided, and there's no expiration timer.

 

[XXXconanXXX]

Then, try basing the ability off of Archimonde's Dark Portal and change the stats to what you are looking for. With that, you don't need the trigger, but the animation before you build won't show up either.