Shooting requires mana

[Sirroelivan]

How can you make it so, that whenever a unit shoots, it uses up one mana and when it doens't have any mana left, it can't shoot at all.

 

[Master]

Shoot? you mean attack?

 

[Rinpun]

Define shooting. There are many ways you can do this. Some just use a searing arrows or someat modified ability to fire and use up 1 mana. And then, to boot, the units attack can be set to 0 (so when the unit attacks its searing arrow modification does the actual damage) and triggers can be made so that the shooting ability is always activated.

 

[Anachron]

To make it work simply use this!!!

You need 1 trigger.

Ok my idea:
Each time your hero / unit shot it will loose mana.
So we make a trigger which simply remove 1 mana with each shot and check if it can shot before every attack.

Event:A unit attacks a unit
Condition: Unittype of Triggering unit equal to *Your Unit type of the shooting unit*
Action:
If Then Else do (Mulitiplicate actions)
If
Mana of triggering unit equal or bigger than 1.00
Then do
Unit - Set Mana of Triggering unit to (mana of(Triggering Unit)-1.00)
Else do
Unit - Order Triggering unit to stop

That is all!^^

 

[Sirroelivan]

I mean attacking (but for your searing arrow idea, would it be possible to hide the ability e.g. put it in a dummy spellbook and then disable the spellbook at the beginning of the game?)

 

[Rinpun]

I mean attacking (but for your searing arrow idea, would it be possible to hide the ability e.g. put it in a dummy spellbook and then disable the spellbook at the beginning of the game?)

Yes

Not worth doing the triggering Dhk is suggesting. Stopping is rather bothersome. I suppose you could use it, but anyone with a fast attack can sometimes bypass it. If you use the trigger he's suggesting, you don't need any abilities, but it's harder to modify his attack (if you want to do that) and, as mentioned, stopping is bothersome. You can, however, achieve a much better stop in JASS, where you can simply:

call PauseUnit(x,true)
call IssueImmediateOrder(x,"stop")
call PauseUnit(x, false)

 

[Sirroelivan]

But if i give the unit 0 attack, it can't attack anymore.

 

[Rinpun]

Yes it can. Give it -1 attack (shift click and set it) and 1 dice and side.