I've recently been playing around with the "Interact" ability, and I've noticed a few thing that make it stand out that I don't undestand. If anyone could enlighten me as to why these things are happening, I'd appreciate it.
1) How does the cast actually work? Is it a channel type ability (I don't think so). Is it constantly casting on a unit in order to share it's control/vision? That would explain why it deactivates automatically when the target unit is out of range, but that seems like a lot of casting...
2) The usual way to use the interact ability is to have it autocast - i.e. the unit uses the ability on its own as per some vaildators/filters. If that's true, the ability should be firing normally when a unit comes into its range. However, any attempts to detect this ability use with the "Any unit uses ability" trigger prove futile. The triggers never see it being used.
3) I should be able to use the ability "manually" with a trigger (i.e. no autocast). However, efforts to use the "Issue Order" command prove futile. (Yes, the proper ability command/target are selected). It just doesn't issue the command.
1) How does the cast actually work? Is it a channel type ability (I don't think so). Is it constantly casting on a unit in order to share it's control/vision? That would explain why it deactivates automatically when the target unit is out of range, but that seems like a lot of casting...
2) The usual way to use the interact ability is to have it autocast - i.e. the unit uses the ability on its own as per some vaildators/filters. If that's true, the ability should be firing normally when a unit comes into its range. However, any attempts to detect this ability use with the "Any unit uses ability" trigger prove futile. The triggers never see it being used.
3) I should be able to use the ability "manually" with a trigger (i.e. no autocast). However, efforts to use the "Issue Order" command prove futile. (Yes, the proper ability command/target are selected). It just doesn't issue the command.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Well, I'm back, with the same questions. Does anyone have any answers?
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ModeratorsNot yet experimented with the ability. Will get round to it eventually. Maybe you could publish your research on the wiki.
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