Mana Drain on Friend

[Gwafu]

Hello guys and gals
How can I make Siphon Mana to drain mana from friendly units only?
I changed the targets but it still says "Must target an Enemy"

If its impossible...
is there any other way to drain mana from a friendly unit?

 

[Joccaren]

Trigger it?

 

[Justice-BR]

you will have to trigger it.

I can think a way using some "enemy" dummy unit.

when you cast on a friend (the mana drain ability), it creates one invisible and all other crap enemy units on the point of yout target (your friend).
order the first one to drain mana (no visual effects) from your friend
then make you drain mana from it.
and make sure that this dummy unit will follow your friend.

 

[baka-ranger]

There are fields in gameplay constants regarding life drain/siphon mana. IIRC, they were something like "can transfer" and "gives bonus". If you tick the can transfer, it will do exactly as you want, ie only able to target allies and restrict targetting enemies.
The gives bonus field allows you to drain past max hp/mp, there is a field on the ability in object editor which deals with the rate of decay of said bonus once the draining stops.

 

[Rainther]

This might not work but try checking "can transfer" in gameplay constant and set the values (mana drained) negative and maybe it steals mana instead of giving to allies?

 

[jomik]

Siphon Mana steals mana from enemies, it doesn't give to allies, so the "Can transfer" should work, no need to set the mana drained to negative Since it says mana drained, not given

 

[Gwafu]

where the hell is that?
is that Gameplay - Drain Transfers Mana?

 

[Ayanami]

Here's a demo map containing a triggered Mana Drain. Hope this helps.

Glenphir