mirror image kind of ability help

[Stryke]

Hey I want to make an ability that when you're in range (100), illusions of the hero are created at the position of the targeted unit surrounding the unit from escaping. but how do you create illusions?

 

[Rad]

Create a dummy unit and cast that staff of illusion thing on him. Use a boolean 'Unit within range' condition to check if ur within 100

 

[Stryke]

can you show me some code im new to this

 

[Rad]

Event: Unit starts the effect of an ability
Condition: Ability being cast equal to (Mirror Spell)
Condition: Boolean: Region contains unit (Position of <Casting unit> with size 100,100 contains <Target unit of ability being cast> equal to true)
Action: Unit - Create 1 <Dummy unit> at <Position of <Casting unit>> facing default building degrees
Action: Set vertex coloring of <Last created unit> to 100,100,100 with 100% transparency


Not sure what the stuff would be to cast the spell.. maybe you can add blademasters mirror image to the target, cast it, then remove it... Never even thought about the item illusion (Targetable)'s order string...

 

[Ruination]

How is he going to get the copies to surround the enemy preventing it from moving? He can't even use last created unit for the copies. Maybe if you create the dummy unit(which should have 0 collision) on the target unit, then order the dummy to mirror image with maybe 6-8 copies. They should go outward around him, like in a circle which should be around the target, hopefully. Be sure to make the copies 0 damage and remove the increased damage that they will take, or your target could kill one and escape pretty easily.

 

[Stryke]

how do you make the dummy use mirror image

 

[Ruination]

Set last created unit to a unit variable. Like, DummyMirrorCaster = Last created unit. Issue an order with no target for DummyUnitCaster to Orc-Mirror Image. Now, I have read several times on this forum that ordering an ability like this will always use your custom ability instead of the regular one, but I've tried ordering custom abilities and it doesn't work. You need to specify the order string so it distinguishes your custom mirror image from the regular one. The reason you'll need the custom one is so you can have a lot more copies made in order to surround someone. Ask others how to do the order string business.

Note: If your map won't be using the regular mirror image, then you don't need to worry about changing it, so you wouldn't need a dummy mirror image ability--just change the regular one to 6 or 8 copies and remove their extra damage taken.

One last thing, you'll need to pause the target unit while the images are being made if you want this to work when the target is running away. Unpause it after the images are made.

 

[Stryke]

thx alot man!