Help with an activated aura

[Cenoern]

Greetings everyone. I'm working on a map right now, and one of my character classes is a Bard. Obviously a big portion of bards is their aura abilities, but I didn't want it to be a boring character to play. So, I am attempting to make the auras activated.

I made two abilities - Chords of Dissonance (Bard Ability) is based off of Thunder Clap, and is just being used as a dummy ability.

Chords of Dissonance (Bard Song) is the actual aura.

The idea is that when you cast the dummy ability, it disappears and is replaced by the aura for a set amount of time (in this case, 12 seconds.)

SongLevels[] is a size 3 array, and Chords of Dissonance is slated for SongLevels[0], so that I can preserve the correct level of dummy ability vs. aura.

Here's my trigger.

Chords of Dissonance
    Events
        Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability
    Conditions
        (Ability being cast) Equal to Chords of Dissonance (Bard Ability)
    Actions
        Set SongLevels[0] = (Level of (Ability being cast) for (Triggering unit))
        Player - Disable Chords of Dissonance (Bard Ability) for (Owner of (Triggering unit))
        Unit - Remove (Ability being cast) from (Triggering unit)
        Player - Enable Chords of Dissonance (Bard Song) for (Owner of (Triggering unit))
        Unit - Add Chords of Dissonance (Bard Song) to (Triggering unit)
        Unit - Set Level of Chords of Dissonance (Bard Song) for (Triggering unit) to SongLevels[0]
        Wait 12.00 seconds
        Player - Disable Chords of Dissonance (Bard Song) for (Owner of (Triggering unit))
        Unit - Remove Chords of Dissonance (Bard Song) from (Triggering unit)
        Player - Enable Chords of Dissonance (Bard Ability) for (Owner of (Triggering unit))
        Unit - Add Chords of Dissonance (Bard Ability) to (Triggering unit)
        Unit - Set Level of Chords of Dissonance (Bard Ability) for (Triggering unit) to SongLevels[0]

The abilities actually switch, and switch back. However, as soon as the ability is activated, the hero becomes unable to move or follow any commands. When the dummy ability returns, he is still unable to move, or even recast the spell. He's the only one being frozen in this manner - the rest of my heroes can cast abilities, move, and do all other normal functions. It is just the hero that freezes.

I think it might be something to do with removing/disabling/adding/enabling. Any help?

 

[Cenoern]

Well, right now I have fixed the above problem, which was that the Event was based on "Begins to cast an ability", and I changed it to Finish.

Everything (almost) goes off without a hitch. The dummy ability is removed completely, and the real aura is given for 12 seconds. However, after 12 seconds, it disappears completely.

If I move around the enable/disables, I can actually get it so that the ability returns, however, during the 12 seconds where it is supposed to be gone, you can still research it in the Hero Abilities tab. Which could lead to major problems if you put a point in it while the aura is going off.

Here's the current trigger. Any ideas?

Chords of Dissonance
    Events
        Unit - A unit Finishes casting an ability
    Conditions
        (Ability being cast) Equal to Chords of Dissonance (Bard Ability)
    Actions
        Set SongLevels[0] = (Level of (Ability being cast) for (Triggering unit))
        Player - Disable (Ability being cast) for (Owner of (Triggering unit))
        Unit - Remove (Ability being cast) from (Triggering unit)
        Unit - Add Chords of Dissonance (Bard Song) to (Triggering unit)
        Player - Enable Chords of Dissonance (Bard Song) for (Owner of (Triggering unit))
        Unit - Set Level of Chords of Dissonance (Bard Song) for (Triggering unit) to SongLevels[0]
        Wait 12.00 game-time seconds
        Player - Disable Chords of Dissonance (Bard Song) for (Owner of (Triggering unit))
        Unit - Remove Chords of Dissonance (Bard Song) from (Triggering unit)
        Unit - Add (Ability being cast) to (Triggering unit)
        Player - Enable (Ability being cast) for (Owner of (Triggering unit))
        Hero - Modify unspent skill points of (Triggering unit): Add 1 points
        Hero - Learn skill for (Triggering unit): Chords of Dissonance (Bard Ability)
        Unit - Set Level of (Ability being cast) for (Triggering unit) to SongLevels[0]

 

[Persen]

An idea: Make a spell based of Immolation, so that it drains mana when activated. I can help with the triggers if you want.

 

[AceHart]

Once you "Remove (Ability being cast)", there is no "ability being cast" anymore...
There's probably no caster anymore either.
You'll need a couple variables to keep track of the unit, the ability and, if needed, its level.

 

[Persen]

Yes, use some locals.