Troubles with Locust

[NoxMortus]

I would like to have a hero with camouflage abilities.

I had an idea for an ability based on bear form, with the alternate form a model of a shrub with little or no movement speed.

Then I came across a problem - the ability wouldnt be very effective because the enemy could just select you with their cursor , and the creeps would still attack you.

So I thought I could use the 'Locust ability' to solve that.

But then another problem arose - I wanted the owner of the unit and his/her allies to be able to select it aswell.

So I decided there might be a field to change that in the locust ability in the editor.

Yet another problem - I couldnt find the locust ability, so I had a look for the unit locust, checked that the ability is in the Unit category, and it was, so I went back to the ability editor, opened up all of the unit ability folders for all races and searched for it - it wasnt there.

Does anyone have an alternative or knows how to edit the ability?

Thanks for all help given.

 

[xgodevilx]

Hi
If I need to find an unit, ability, or something else in the editor, I use the Find Function in the Edit Menu. So I go to abilities editor, click on a random ability, then go to edit, find, type in locust, and it shows me that the spell is in Standard Abilities/Undead/Hero/Locust Swarm.
Hope that helps.

 

[NoxMortus]

Thanks for telling me about the Find function that will save me alot of time in the future, but Locust swarm wasnt the ablity I was looking for, I was looking for 'Locust' which makes a unit unable to be selected. Thanks for helping though.

I used the Find function but that couldnt find the ability either.. It's strange because I KNOW it's in there because the Locust units have it..

 

[Razthemapper]

You could download WEU from www.wc3sear.ch it has an built-in system for that... transforms hero in a random tree... can only be selected by owner and allies... wont be attacked...

 

[NoxMortus]

O.K thanks for that, I already have WEU but I didnt know about that.

 

[Sanitarium]

Grrr...

F.Y.I, in the standard W.E., it is impossible to edit the Locust ability. :banghead:

 

[Heptameron]

F.Y.I, in the standard W.E., it is impossible to edit the Locust ability. :banghead:

But even if you could, there's nothing relevant to change.

 

[Sanitarium]

Just wondering...if you can't edit the ability, how do you know there is nothing to edit?

 

[Sargon]

Because it does one thing. It makes whatever has the ability unselectable. How do you change that?

 

[Rad]

Like any other ability in Warcraft it should have different art options even if they dont do anything

 

[Heptameron]

Just wondering...if you can't edit the ability, how do you know there is nothing to edit?

Because I've used something that allows it to be edited.

 

[Sanitarium]

Because I've used something that allows it to be edited.

What might that be?

 

[tenebrous]

actually...

Locust does a little more than make units unselectable; it also prevents you from ordering units to use standard spells/abilities. I guess since a unit with locust can't "select" its ability once it is ordered to so with a trigger, it won't cast anything.

Yeah, I didn't believe it at first either...

Edit: N/M! What was really going on was a "pick all units" and the picked units had locust...

Edit #2!: Okay... well, maybe not... I tried it without picking, and I guess my first thought was correct! Anyone have any idea why locust would do that?

 

[AceHart]

This would have been better in a new thread...

"Pick every" only picks units that you can select.
Units with Locust can't be selected, so "Pick" doesn't find them.

That said, ordering a "locusted" unit with triggers works just fine.
You just need some way to get them without "Pick".


Locust is somewhat famous with dummy casters.
There you do have a reference to the unit since the trigger will create it first.



Rumor has it that "pick every unit of type" will get them.
That's unconfirmed however.